This one comes from a couple of weekends ago (21st - that one where it was really sunny & warm) on The New Forest. It started off frosty, but that soon burned off. Plenty of Fallow deer about - have included pics of some of them. The usual birds were about. There were plenty of Hawfinches in some of the woods, Lesser Spotted Woodpecker & Firecrest. Out on the heaths there were Dartford Warblers, Woodlarks, Curlews, Stonechats etc.
Sunrise over Rakes Brakes Bottom
An ancient Oak in Old Sloden Wood
View from the edge of Old Sloden towards Hasley Hill Inclosure...
......Broomy Inclosure....
......& Alderhill Inclosure with Hampton Ridge at the back.
Fallow buck. The heath is still covered in frost.
New Forest Ponies in Sloden Inclosure.
Coral in the drift-way in between Sloden & Alderhill Inclosures. These are used in the pony round-ups (drifts) late summer & Autumn.
Latchmore Brook
Douglas Firs in Alderhill Inclosure
Some more Fallow bucks.
Out on the heath again - view from Gaze Hill back towards AlderHill Inclosure....
......& Hasley Hill Inclosure at the back.
The view from Hampton Ridge towards the corner of Alderhill Inclosure....
.....& Hasley Hill Inclosure. The frost is burning off & making the air hazey
3 Fallow does