A quick morning mooch

[gg012]

I like to get up early at weekends and yesterday was no different. There is a nature reserve near me that is being gradually transformed from a pine plantation to an inland bog through conservation grazing. The wildlife trust use different animals to eat different vegetation in order to allow a wider variety of species a chance to grow. They have also built a number of dams to retain water in the valley, resulting in a number of pools that flow into one another on the way through the site. It's absolutely beautiful there and at its best at the moment; rich, green and teeming with insects, full of foxgloves too. Unfortunately there is a lot of rhodedendron in the woods but even that looks nice when it's in flower.

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[Toddy]

That looks like a haven
Here it'd be very midgy, was it there ?

 

[gg012]

It is beautiful, it's only a few minutes drive from Canterbury but a world apart.
No midges, we are lucky down here or I taste bad as I don't really notice them. The odd mosquito now and then but that's it.

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