June 23, 2022
Starting with a pleasant lunch at The Golden Ball, Boxworth, we drove on to our destination for an afternoon walk. We walked around and beyond the excellent nature and bird reserve at Little Paxton, 5 miles south of Huntingdon, 2 miles north of St Neots and conveniently near to our home town of Cambridge, between the A14 and the A428. There are more details and maps here.
It was a warm day but not uncomfortably so. Briars snaked out on some of the paths (snipped with Duncan's light secateurs) but the going underfoot on our preferred walk, following The Heron Trail, was firm and the variety of scenery - woods, The Great Ouse, fields of all kinds and gravel pits, gave us lots to look at while we walked and talked.
Mark captured (photographically) a female Banded Demoiselle, a Norfolk Hawker dragonfly and a Variable Damselfly.
Tim's knee and Duncan's wrist performed well, and a 6 mile walk was just right. For longer or shorter marked trails and for bird watching we can recommend Little Paxton Pits.