Nagshead Nature Reserve

After a delightful video chat with Cheryl and Ivy, in which Ivy wanted to show us everything, we ventured across the Severn for an exploratory visit to Nagshead RSPB nature reserve. This is within a large ancient woodland in the Forest of Dean. Maybe it'd be a good first test for the Hubble... ;-)

The woodland was lovely, with tall conifers and huge old oaks, some of which had fallen and were living a new phase of life with bugs and fungi living all over and in them. The sunshine poked through the tall trees and lit swathes of brown bracken, and Janet as she volunteered to touch the sky again.

But while we could occasionally hear birds... there were perhaps more dogs than birds at Nagshead; on leads or often free roaming and yapping furiously. A local there told us the reserve woodland was in fact a public space and RSPB only managed it, and it seemed no-one was doing that. 

Still, a day out by any other name, but the new glass stayed in the bag.