Part birdwatching and part looking again for autumn colour, this walk took me through the cemetery and into the woodland burial ground, a squeeze through the gap in the fence and a circuit of the Horsefield before returning through the gap. I was thrilled to spot the roe deer buck, attentive to his doe in the meadow of the woodland burial ground. The long dead grass is so tall that the two deer were nearly completely hidden by it. It would have made a superb photo if I hadn't left the long lens at home.
The Horsefield is looking very back endish now with bleached dead grasses and vibrant golds, yellow, red and bronze of autumn. As I have done often this autumn, I took great pleasure in the vivid yellow of the ash trees Ash is one of the last trees to produce leaves in the spring and one of the first to lose them in the autumn. In a poor year ash trees will lose their leaves while they are still green, but this year the long hot summer has meant that they are colouring up to give a stunning display in the hedgerow.
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