Post by ianr on May 18, 2018 9:02:13 GMT
I'm always looking for somewhere new to visit not too far away just somewhere quite-ish to take the dog and camera for a walk and a few months ago the need became a little more urgent as one of my favourite walks was linked with a possible case of Alabama rot, though to be fair it's not a damp place by a long shot but best to err on the safe side.
I don't mind a 10/15 mile trip for a quite and interesting walk and there are a few just over the county line into Nottinghamshire one of my latest is an old gravel pit now a nature reserve at Besthorpe it still a work in progress. It runs alongside the river Trent there are hides around the pits and boardwalks where it's wet also dry footpaths a couple of wild flower meadows I've yet to find and lot more to explore.
Upon my arrival yesterday as I turned down the track 'quite a few potholes though not a lot worse than the roads in Lincolnshire ' the first thing I saw was an owl flying over a field full of buttercups first though was barn owl but on later thoughts it seem big and too dark so maybe short eared owl if I'd looked harder and not made a dash to the back of the car for my camera I would have a better idea
I don't often carry both bins and camera so no bins today but what I could see and hear the reeds held good numbers of reed and sedge warblers, sand martins and swallows over the pit. Plenty of ducks, gulls, terns and cormorants, little egrets in the margins and other migrants singing away in the background.
Quite a few butterflies green veined and other whites, orange tip and speckled wood so far.
Looking forward to more visits next week hope the weather holds up
ian
I don't mind a 10/15 mile trip for a quite and interesting walk and there are a few just over the county line into Nottinghamshire one of my latest is an old gravel pit now a nature reserve at Besthorpe it still a work in progress. It runs alongside the river Trent there are hides around the pits and boardwalks where it's wet also dry footpaths a couple of wild flower meadows I've yet to find and lot more to explore.
Upon my arrival yesterday as I turned down the track 'quite a few potholes though not a lot worse than the roads in Lincolnshire ' the first thing I saw was an owl flying over a field full of buttercups first though was barn owl but on later thoughts it seem big and too dark so maybe short eared owl if I'd looked harder and not made a dash to the back of the car for my camera I would have a better idea
I don't often carry both bins and camera so no bins today but what I could see and hear the reeds held good numbers of reed and sedge warblers, sand martins and swallows over the pit. Plenty of ducks, gulls, terns and cormorants, little egrets in the margins and other migrants singing away in the background.
Quite a few butterflies green veined and other whites, orange tip and speckled wood so far.
Looking forward to more visits next week hope the weather holds up
ian