Category Archives: walks

Describing walks I take, on my own and in company.

Launch of the River Coln Trail

Posted on 30/03/2024 by campaignerkate

I was in Fairford, Gloucestershire, on 23 March to open the River Coln Trail. This 33-mile route links the Walkers are Welcome Towns of Winchcombe in the north and Fairford in the south. It takes in the source of the … Continue reading →

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Radical Ramblers and parachuting pipits

Posted on 10/03/2024 by campaignerkate

I joined my first walk of the Radical Ramblers since the tragic and untimely death of our leader, Alan Haworth, last August. Roger Hough has generously stepped in to keep the walks programme going. On 9 March eight of us … Continue reading →

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College Lake revisited

Posted on 08/01/2024 by campaignerkate

Bucks Bird Club returned to College Lake near Marsworth in Bucks on 7 January. Ed Griffiths, our leader, decided on a clockwise route. The previous two years (when we met on new year’s day) we have walked anti-clockwise, but Ed reckoned … Continue reading →

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Bimble round Northleach

Posted on 06/01/2024 by campaignerkate

My final walk of 2023 with my friends Arthur Lee and visually-impaired Marika Kovacs was on 29 December from Northleach in Gloucestershire. It is more or less equidistant between us (Hereford and Turville). We chose a simple circular walk because it … Continue reading →

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My bird year 2023

Posted on 01/01/2024 by campaignerkate

I was pleasantly surprised by my annual bird-count: 125 species seen, and another four heard (bittern, firecrest, nightingale, and water rail). This was the same as my peak year of 2014 when I went to Mull. I give credit to Bucks Bird … Continue reading →

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Shrewsbury explorations

Posted on 10/12/2023 by campaignerkate

On 2 December I drove across England through freezing fog and arrived in Shrewsbury in glorious sunshine with delicately frosted trees. My eyes felt like burnt holes in blankets (as my friend Sylvia Sayer used to say) from the strain … Continue reading →

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Wander around Whitchurch

Posted on 03/12/2023 by campaignerkate

Following the Walkers Are Welcome towns annual get-together at Whitchurch, Shropshire, some of us enjoyed a Sunday-morning stroll around the local nature reserve and the town. The Shropshire Wildlife Trust’s Greenfields Nature Reserve is on the north-east side of the … Continue reading →

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Windy Wilstone

Posted on 21/11/2023 by campaignerkate

It was a very different day at Wilstone reservoir, near Tring in Hertfordshire, from my last visit with the Bucks Bird Club, exactly a year ago. Then it was calm and sunny; this year there was a fierce wind. The … Continue reading →

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Poulenc in the hills

Posted on 16/11/2023 by campaignerkate

On a glorious November day, I walked with my visually-impaired friend Marika Kovacs, supported by Arthur Lee who met us in the car at road junctions, for another stretch of the Cotswold Way in Gloucestershire—and what a lovely stretch it … Continue reading →

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Cooper’s Hill to Edgemoor

Posted on 30/09/2023 by campaignerkate

My visually-impaired friend Marika Kovacs and I set off on the next leg of the Cotswold Way national trail, from Cooper’s Hill, Gloucestershire, heading south, on 16 August. This is where we had finished last time. By the parking area … Continue reading →

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