Category: encounters

I’m trying out a new occasional blog series today. I’ll post a photo and tell the story of how it happened. I visited Savernake Forest in Wiltshire recently. I was actually hunting around for woodcock, a bird I’ve only ever seen briefly once.  The like clearings inside mixed or coniferous forest, so I was walking off track, following deer trails – they are useful, but deer can jump fences and ass under low brambles, so I can’t always go where …