Showing posts with label wood pastures. Show all posts
Showing posts with label wood pastures. Show all posts

Sunday, 26 May 2013

Bluebells at Brankley Pastures

Today we managed to get out for a lovely afternoons walk around Staffordshire Wildlife Trust Reserve Brankley Pastures.

We followed the path through the reserve which took us through some arable land, a bluebell wood, wood pastures with veteran oak trees some around 500 years old, and new woodland plantations.



A much quieter option to the awful bird scarers that keep going off  near our home!!!












and just a few dandelions in the plantations

There were a few butterflies flitting around but very few were landing, orange tips, one speckled wood and two peacocks

and many bees and hoverflies