Yey! Bluebell season! This year, we visited woods we never been. It's called Chalkney Woods. It's in Essex, not far from Suffolk. We wanted to find bluebells where we never visited. Here we are, searched on line, we found it.
It was also beautiful woods, felt really ancient. I didn't know till later we read the sign, and did say it was an old forest. On the woodland trust site also mentioned " there are remnants of a medieval woodbank and Roman trackway", how romantic! It's as old as last Ice age... How they maintain the woods also is very interesting, they use the method called coppicing and doing it 25 year cycle.
This magic woods is home to lots of different birds, we heard woodpecker! I am sure it was a woodpecker! Little birds like robins follow us around and singing constantly. Now it's started getting warmer, trees had new green leaves on trees and smelt really nice.
As we walked into deep in the woods, we started see more and more bluebells, nothing like walking through bluebell woods. I love it.
We walked everywhere in the woods. I am sure we did big circular walks. There were a good few cars parked up outside the gate, but we didn't feel we kept bumping into people, it was a big enough for all of us that day.
By the gate, dog walkers left their dog poo bags (and poo inside!) by the gate. It said that on the sign, "Please take your dog poo with you." and what they did? They left them there. And I saw a few bags left inside the woods too, that was terrible. Don't people respect nature and to other people? No consideration whatsoever. Yes, I was a bit upset.
Anyway, I would defo recommend for bluebell walks in season for this woods. This becomes yet another our favourite bluebell woods.
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Here's some photos❀
It was a job to find, map we got wasn't indicated very clear. Basically, it's between White Colne and Wakes Colne Chappel. It's just off A1124 in White Colne. Turn at Tey road. It was worth visit.
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