An uphill walk around a local nature reserve on Thursday morning
Old Winchester Hill is a 164-acre Site of Special Scientific Interest in Hampshire. Part of it is a scheduled monument. On the summit of the hill is an Iron Age hill fort. Within the hill fort, Bronze Age barrows dating between 2100 and 750 BC can be found. The fort itself was probably built in the Early or early–Middle Iron Age, 600–300 BC.
Dog Roses.
Ox-eye daisies.
Buzzard.
Jackdaw.
Air Ambulance passing over I think they were using the hill fort as a reference on their route
Not many Butterflies were spotted while on the hill. Only one distant Blue Butterfly and a couple of Six-spot burnet moths were seen. They’re a day flying moth.
Continued Reflections from my World. 
Wonderful photos!
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Fascinating & love the flowers.
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Sounds like a nice hike Andy … I like that tree that you have also featured in the last shot; it must be very old to be that large and also having ivy on the trunk. There are lots of nice “things with wings” here between the birds, bees and the spotted moth, not to mention the air ambulance.
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Yes it was Linda there is something about an older tree growing alone. It makes a natural shape rather than in a group when it murges with other trees.
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It was striking when you see trees so often and they all blend in together and you don’t think much about them, except this one.
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