Monday, February 04, 2013

Knockman Wood – 27th October 2012

A lovely autumnal day, so decided on a good walk at Knockman Wood.

1-Knockman-Wood

Up the lane from the car park

2-Knockman-Wood-sign

Information board

3-Cloud

Blue sky!

4-autumn

Views of the Galloway Hills

5-Galloway-Hills

 

6-Cree-Valley-sign

Knockman Wood is well managed by Cree Valley Community Woodlands Trust & the Forestry Commission

7-Welcome-sign

There are plenty of information boards explaining about the wildlife and archaeology that can be found

8-Autumn-gold

Autumn colours

9-kiln-sign

Corn drying kilns info board

10-trees

There are some lovely old trees here…

11-trees

..with plenty of nestboxes for the birds.

12-toadstools-1

Toadstools

13-Autumn-woodland

Autumn colours

14-Oak-and-blue-sky

 

15-autumn-beech

 

16-burn

 

17-toadstools-2

Toadstools on old beech tree

18-toadstools-2

 

19-beech-canopy

 

20-beech-tree

 

21-silver-birch

 

22-long-tail

We stopped and watched a flock of noisy Long-tailed Tits passing through

23-nuthatch

Nuthatch, there was a few of these too

24-coaltit

Coal tit burying seed

25-toadstools-3

Shrivelled toadstool

26-treecreeper

Treecreeper on fallen tree

27-dragon

Dragon?

28-tree

Lone tree

29-view

 

30-Scots-Pine

Windswept Scots Pine

31-view

View north…

32-Luce-Bay

..and south towards Luce Bay

33 Panorama

Panorama from the cairn, click to see larger image

35-spiders-lair

Spiders lair

36-loch

Reflections

37-reflected-tree

 

38-loch

 

39-Knockman-wood

We have done this walk many times now and never get tired of it!

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