monday morning wonder

[monkey boy]

so this morning I spent a couple of hours in epsom common admiring the weather and bird songs.
I find it much better to have a plan befor I go out, that way when I pack my day pack I am only taking the things a may need for my objectives.
Now im still new to I.D,ing plants and tree, so my aim today was to choose a tree and go and look for it. now its getting near for the birch sap to flow for this year, so I wanted to make sure that I am familier with the different types of birch theres is, unfortunatly I only managed to find the silver birch but I did manage to spot it living, dead, young and dead standing, also I was reading about the diffent features and looking out for it for myself. even though I could id the silver birch befor today I still feel I have learnt more about the tree ie how very similar it is to the downing birch and I wonder if I have been calling them silver birches  My other objectives was to see if the sap was ready, but all the birches I stabbed were dry.
I also wanted to watch a few birds (no not lady's, I will wait until im at a beech in the summer for that&#58370 I manage to see some parakeets, well i think thats what they are, i also got a glimps at a wood pecker (the noisy things) not sure on what type it was though. my last plan was to make a brew .

so this is what i carried

tree book, optics, lighter to light my stove, crusader kit with brew, ferro rod incase I find tinder that iv never tried befor, folding saw so I can bring a peice of wood home for calving and my little opinle 9, I didnt see the point in carrying my A wright or mora for what I was planning to do today.

as soon as I entered the common it had looked like someone had been practising BC already, not sure if you can tell by the pic but it looked to me like a porly built shelter or maybe it was one built years ago, i thought maybe it could of been one built by hugo when he was a kid, but then how could archioligist ( sorry about the spelling) could have missed that and not put it in a musiem. lol

I think it was a parakeet sleeping

this area reminded me of safari, dont ask why it just does

and finnaly the brew

it was a nice morning
thanx for reading

 

[Hugo]

Hope you had a great time Sammy.
I thought I cut down ALL the silver birch on Epsom common in 1960,
looks like I missed a few. Where was the picture taken of the wet area, is it near the big pond.

 

[spandit]

Looks like a fun morning out. I need to start brewing up on my daily dog walks (except the big felled oak tree I normally sit on is being cut up and removed imminently)

 

[Hugo]

Life is a bitch sometimes Robin.

 

[spandit]

Life is a bitch sometimes Robin.

Good job I've got a folding stool...

 

[monkey boy]

Hope you had a great time Sammy.
I thought I cut down ALL the silver birch on Epsom common in 1960,
looks like I missed a few. Where was the picture taken of the wet area, is it near the big pond.

its a little bit past the pond mate, gonna get myself out tomoz aswell if i can 

 

[Hugo]

Past the pond and walk ten minutes and I used to drink water strait out of the ground there in my youth, a small running stream it was.