Burnham Beeches

We visited Burnham Beeches on Saturday 1st February, I wanted to go in Autumn to see the changing colours but didn't get round to it. 

We didn't get there until about 12.30pm so went to the café for a quick bite to eat. The prices were ok and I really enjoyed the Millionaire Shortbread! The car park costs £2 per day, per car but someone gave us their ticket as they were leaving.

We walked along Lord Mayors Drive, almost to the end then turned round and came back up. This is one of the paths and we dipped in and out of the woods, it was very muddy and the children had great fun getting covered in it! We only walked a small part of whole place but it still took quite a long time! There are cattle and some other animals roaming in the woods but we didn't see any.

There were quite a few trees hollowed out like this, they looked like they had been burnt.

I think this was the Upper Pond, there were lots of Mandarin Ducks and some Mallards. I couldn't get a very good photo though.

This stream came from the pond above and carries on to the next two ponds, Middle and Swilly Ponds. The stream was very shallow and we walked through it in our welly boots.

We were there for about four hours in total and it was a tiring but fun day.

Woodland walk

Today we went on a short woodland walk to a small area nearby, it's just across the road and is quite overgrown so you can't walk far. Someone has built a den and there was a frying pan on a sort of makeshift BBQ, I didn't take any photos of it though. There was a lot of Cow Parsley but the photos I took were blurred.

I really like this photo, looking up to the treetops with the sun peeking through.

I think these are Wood Forget-me-nots.

I'm not sure what these are, there were a couple of similar looking ones in my book.

And finally, I wasn't sure what these were but my dad said they are White Bluebells. My book says they are rare but they do look like Bluebells. Has anyone else seen them?

I love that everything is looking so green and colourful now that we are having some warmer weather and it looks set to stay for this week, at least.

 

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