Strensall Common and Brumber Hill

Time for exercise and I decided to visit an area on the outskirts of York.

The common is a pleasant place to walk and in the past I have seen adders, cuckoo, woodlark and tree pipit. There were lots of vehicles in the car park, so I was a bit nervous about how many people I might meet.
I need not have worried. I dont know where the people from the vehicles were, but I did not meet them on my walk. The military were having a day on the shooting range as the sound of gunfire filled the air. The first bird I heard was a male stonechat, singing from a tree on my left. A few carrion crows were flying around, otherwise it was quiet.

I noticed a few round leaved sundew plants.

Further along near the Forestry Commission Wood I heard and saw tree pipits. I also heard my first cuckooof the year, but I could not locate it.

After tea I decided to go for another walk and drove to just outside Appleton Roebuck, where the railway lines to Leeds and London merge. A place I have visited often in the past.

I walked down the lane and like my last visit I saw a red kite.

 

Yellowhammers were singing from the hedges, but I only got the odd glimpse of them.

This whitethroat was close to the car park.

Lots of daisies in the grass verges.

A pleasant way to spend an evening.