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You should have been here yesterday!

9/6/2013

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We have our regular Saturday Walking Picnic from Abbots Well tomorrow, and I have decided to do a loop round Pitts Wood for the walk.  It's a couple of weeks since I was last up there, so I thought I would wander round, and see if there was anything about.  As I stopped at the crest of the ridge and looked down at the wood, I could hear a raven croaking.  As I looked for the raven, two hobbies appeared, and quartered the valley looking for dragonflies, before sitting up in one of the tall pines.  Meanwhile, a Dartford warbler was shouting at me from a nearby gorse bush.  On into the wood to find a couple of nice groups of fungi, and a red admiral butterfly.  On the way back across Hampton Ridge I managed to get a nice photo of a kestrel, then spotted a whinchat, and then a wheatear, and just as I was heading home, turned to see a whole herd of fallow bucks, grazing with the ponies.  They weren't too bothered about me, so I managed to get a few decent photos.  Now, if they will all just stay in place for tomorrow's guests, that will do nicely!

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9/25/2023 10:35:02 pm

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