Last Saturday D and I went to Brueton Park to do one of our favourite walks through wild garlic woods, meadows and a bluebell wood. Due to lockdown we couldn't visit last year. It was supposed to be drier - it wasn't! Dark and gloomy when we arrived and drizzling!
The River Blythe - a Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI).
Wild Garlic in flower on the banks - it was perhaps a little past its best but the scent was amazing - it hit you as soon as you got out of the car.
This part of the park is usually very quiet with few people.
Buttercups - not sure why part of the photo is blurred - it wasn't intentional!
Rubbish record shot of a Tree Creeper I spotted.
This is where you follow the public footpath to the left of a bridge - no-one seems to know about this area of the park which is a bonus! However, as you can see by the huge puddle it was going to be muddy!
And muddy it was! I was squelching everywhere in wellies and D was most unsuitably shod so sadly after 300 yards we gave up.
We returned to the main park which was a lot busier! Coot on nest and Canada Geese looking for food.
Here we made a rapid detour through a little copse - on the main path approaching was a group of about 30 people all spread from one side of the path to the other :(
Back on the main path after the detour we stopped at a place where some common water birds are often gathered - coot, moorhen, canada geese and mallard
Hawthorn is now flowering well.
It was a much shorter walk than we envisaged but it was still good to get out.
I hope everyone is staying safe and well.
All photos taken by me with the Panasonic Lumix FZ330 bridge camera (I am sure D's will be better but I haven't uploaded them yet).
8 comments:
Glad you're getting out and about a bit. It's a shame you couldn't have had a better day. Is that muddy spot muddy on it's own recognisance, or does it need lots of wellingtons parading through to churn it up to make it so? Great wildlife shots, and I love wild garlic too. Like you, I do wish people would be more considerate of the space of others.
Rustic Pumpkin - Thanks so much. At least now rest of week looks drier. The path where shady through woods can often be a bit muddy even in a normal dry May. It is a quiet path - at most we may see just one of two other people so not sure people traffic would make it worse. There again perhaps after weeks of rain it could!! Yes going out and about can be hair raising at times - OH and son have a lot of problems with cyclists on one of their walks and you see so many people on buses and going in and out of shops not wearing masks :(
Ha! Better photo of a treecreeper than I ever get!
Simon Douglas Thompson - lol! I don't think I have ever managed a decent pic of that species!
Looks a lovely, if muddy, place to walk. Tree creepers are hard to capture on camera as just as you've lined them up they run around the other side of the tree trunk or branch, you've caught it well. Wild garlic, bluebells and buttercups all looking wonderful at the moment, I can imagine the scent in the woods:)
Rosie - Thank you - normally it is a lovely place to walk in May. So many wild flowers coming out now just a shame May was so wet and rainy and hard to get out!!!
It looks a lovely place to go walking.
It is annoying, especially at the moment when people and groups hog a pathway without regards for other people.
CherryPie - Thank you. It is a lovely park especially the walk we abandoned! Sadly, many people just do not understand social distancing :(
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