Where's your nearest wild area

[Poirot]

Out of interest, how far and where is your local wild area? (by wild area it could be anything from your garden, and abandoned field, a nature reserve etc).

mine is Downs Banks in Staffordshire for it diversity

Poirot

[agrumpycow]

The nearest is probably the local park/nature reserve a couple of hundred yards from my house. a few acres of deciduous woodland and meadow; lovely early morning or weekday daytimes but horrible evenings and weekends when
kids + boredom = not a nice place to be.

But the place I like to go to most is a nature reserve about 5 miles away, relatively unknown, peaceful, rich in fauna and flora and a place which really clears my mind

[tigger]

Behind the sheds in my garden are 6 large trees giving me my own little bit of "woodland" When we moved in it was full of rubbish and now it's planted with wild daffs and bluebells. My little bit of semi tamed "wild" at the bottom of the garden.

Jane

[tufftie]

Up until this Friday it will be the ancient woodland which my garden backs onto; this leads up onto the South Downs. After Friday it will be all around me

[PMG]

Pennington Flash (where I work!!)

Pauline

[ron1863]

At the foot of my back garden where a river runs past.

[ron1863]

Originally Posted by PMG

Pennington Flash (where I work!!)

Pauline

Hi Pauline, I'm envious, do you work with wildlife? I spent my working life in hospitals but always wanted to work outdoors.

[bounce]

I probably bang on to much about it but it's Moore Nature Reserve , it's only 10 minuites on a push cycle from my house and town center but once there it could be a million miles away although on its edges its got the main London- Glasgow railway line, Fiddlers Ferry power station, haulage warehouses and a big landfill site (who pays the up keep).

[Kayleigh]

I walk the dog on a byway about 5 minutes from my house. Its through vast farmland where there are buzzards,foxs,deer,hares,rabbits,lapwings and skylarks..

I am very lucky to have all this on my doorstep.

[ChrisJB]

The Piethorne valley in SE Lancs (though to me, it will always be called Ogden, after the hamlet on a hillside overlooking the valley).
It is a mixture of upland pasture, woods, reservoirs and at the head of the valley is the glorious Pennine watershed.
It is very special to me and a ten minute walk from my front door.

Regards, Chris