In the woods

Different woods from a week ago.  These are quite close to home and looking very attractive in the afternoon sunlight.

They are owned and run by the local council, whose web site says "The wood was once an enormous area of common land stretching across most of the parish. It would have been used to graze livestock, gather wood fuel and feed pigs. Its importance to biodiversity, therefore, lies in its history as wood pasture common - not as woodland."  The area is now carefully managed to encourage a diversity of plant and animal life.