Todays walk was in Nether Langwith in Nottinghamshire. We had to drive round a bit to find the starting point which was Nether Langwith heritage centre, only to discover that we were parked outside it without realising. The weather was a mixture of blue skies and black clouds so we didn't know what to wear but decided on rain jackets and fleeces –we could probably have managed with t-shirts. The walk was across field edges and through woodland in a former mining area and so it was a surprisingly pleasant walk and not too muddy. We were too late for snowdrops but too early for bluebells although we did see lesser celandine in one of the woods. After crossing an old railway embankment we were supposed to walk past a gravel pit which was actually now a flooded lake - there was no sign of a lake on the map but the trees were standing in water and the ducks had moved in. We walked through a conifer plantation (Cuckney Hay Wood) which seemed to have suffered in the recent high winds. There were conifers down across the footpath which we had to climb over. We saw a rabbit and a hare and two buzzards soaring overhead again. The birdsong was lovely in the woods and we saw chaffinches, blue-tits and long-tailed tits. We didn't stop for lunch as the pub (which we realised we had been in before) was at the beginning of the walk. Towards the end of the walk we walked through a farm where they were building barges which seemed strange in the middle of Nottinghamshire.
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