Quite a good turnout today - is it because Sherborne is hosting Springwatch?
At least everybody looks happy
Passing a wooden carving - don't think the artist intended it to be holding flowers
Continuing on a forest track
Then across some fields of buttercups
A red beetle
More signs
Springwatch again? Or an RAF reconnaissance
A reminder that we are approaching Sherborne Water Meadows
Before making our way along a grassy track
A strip of a meadow given over to wild flowers
With a farmhouse and imposing outbuildings
Our path now takes us
Past some interesting grasses as we near the Windrush again
Where we look up the Windrush to an old mill
A foxglove
Looking back at the bridge
Refreshed, we continue on our way
Following a path through a field of maturing rape
I think the point has been made
More old cottages
One mile by road but we take to the woods
And the Ice House and back to the cars
Or because of the luxury loos in the NT Car park?
As we follow a path into the Sherborne Estate
And yet another woodland sculpture
Past an old cottage
With views back to the village of Sherborne
First signs of Springwatch
And the headquarters
Fishing for flies
Where we take our first break
On the banks of the Windrush
We pause at a large farm
Some of our more inquisitive members taking a look inside
Round a field
Crossing the river on this bridge
The view along the river
Brian checking his GPS to see if he is lost
As we pause outside an old barn for lunch
Over an old slab stile
And more sheep pastures
Coming back into Sherborne
She gets everywhere
Past the Manor House
Photos and captions by Richard, processed and uploaded by Sally