Unusually for a Bank Holiday Monday the weather today was fine warm and sunny. We chose to do a 4 mile circular walk in another area that is new to us between Droxford and Swanmore. It was a walk that took us up on hills overlooking fine views and onto pasture land. We saw swallows, swifts, buzzards, a great tit and a nuthatch as well as all of the normal little birds. We came across one wooded area where the ground was absolutely covered in an extensive carpet of ramsons, and the smell of garlic was quite strong. We also passed a large badger sett with many holes over a wide area.
Fantastic - blue sky!
Ramsons, look lovely but actually smell awful.
No sign of badgers - unsurprisingly!
Overlooking a track of some sort for motorbikes?
Back at the car the hedgerow flowers are looking good.
It's now early evening and the sun and blue sky disappeared some time ago but at least we had a good day - incidentally I have just seen the weather forecast for tomorrow and it looks like it's going to rain all day so I'm glad we made the most of the weekend.
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