Quite a good turnout today - is it because Sherborne is hosting Springwatch?
Or because of the luxury loos in the NT Car park?
At least everybody looks happy
As we follow a path into the Sherborne Estate
Passing a wooden carving - don't think the artist intended it to be holding flowers
And yet another woodland sculpture
Continuing on a forest track
Past an old cottage
Then across some fields of buttercups
With views back to the village of Sherborne
A red beetle
First signs of Springwatch
More signs
And the headquarters
Springwatch again? Or an RAF reconnaissance
Fishing for flies
A reminder that we are approaching Sherborne Water Meadows
Where we take our first break
Before making our way along a grassy track
On the banks of the Windrush
A strip of a meadow given over to wild flowers
We pause at a large farm
With a farmhouse and imposing outbuildings
Some of our more inquisitive members taking a look inside
Our path now takes us
Round a field
Past some interesting grasses as we near the Windrush again
Crossing the river on this bridge
Where we look up the Windrush to an old mill
The view along the river
A foxglove
Brian checking his GPS to see if he is lost
Looking back at the bridge
As we pause outside an old barn for lunch
Refreshed, we continue on our way
Over an old slab stile
Following a path through a field of maturing rape
And more sheep pastures
I think the point has been made
Coming back into Sherborne
More old cottages
She gets everywhere
One mile by road but we take to the woods
Past the Manor House
And the Ice House and back to the cars
Photos and captions by Richard, processed and uploaded by Sally