Sunday, 27 May 2007

Hartshill Hayes Park, Warwickshire. 26th May 2007

As it is supposedly going to be the last dry day for a while we decided to go for a walk. We drove to Hartshill Hayes Park in Warwickshire. We don’t often venture into Warwickshire but it was actually quite a short drive. We parked at the Country Park and then walked through some lovely woodland. Unfortunately we were on the wrong path and didn’t find out until we got to the end of the woods where we had to turn round and retrace our steps. It did give us chance to listen to the birds though. The bluebells have finally finished here but there were plenty of other wild flowers about and the smell of wild garlic was everywhere. We followed the correct path this time and crossed a road to the Coventry Canal.



This was very busy today with lots of colourful barges travelling up-stream. There were lots of birds on the canal including Mallards with a family of tiny ducklings and some swans sitting on their nest.


We walked on the towpath for about 2 miles and then left it to walk through the woodland of Purley Park, past a farm growing bedding plants and finally across a golf-course! We re-entered Hartshill Hayes Country Park and enjoyed views across Warwickshire and Leicestershire before returning to the car.

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