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Milton Keynes Boundary Walk - Day 3
Today I did my 3rd walk on the Milton Keynes Bounday Walk, starting at Weston Underwood and finishing … well, in the middle of nowhere! I didn’t pass through any villages or hamlets all day, just a few isolated farms and cottages. There were three sections through woods, the rest was through arable fields. In fact, I was beginning to get a bit bored of corn fields at one point. I saw a couple of Buzzards, and many wildflowers (but nothing new - except possibly Nettle-leaved Bellflower, I’ve got to check that one). The walk was 7.8 miles each way, but took me 6 hours of walking, almost an hour longer than it should - probably due to the much greater number of photos I’m taking nowadays. It was a pleasant enough walk, and a decent day - warm but not too warm, with a bit of a breeze.
The next walk might be delayed - it goes through Turvey, where there is currently a severe flood warning for the Great Ouse!
26/07/2007 at 06:46 pm
The possible sighting of the Nettle Leaved Bellflower sounds a great find, I have never seen one yet on my rambles.
26/07/2007 at 07:11 pm
It may possibly be a Great Bellflower - its being debated on the Wild About Britain web site (or perhaps you’ve already seen that, and that’s how you found my site!). I still think it’s Nettle-leaved and so do a couple of very knowledgable posters on that site. If it is, it’s apparently the first to be seen in North Bucks (just seen on the map it’s only 2-300 yards from the county boundary with Northants). I’ll mention it in my blog when it’s finally decided what it is.
29/07/2007 at 01:01 pm
It was Nettle-leaved Bellflower! In fact, it wasn’t the first record from North Bucks but the second, my informant realised there’d been an earlier record from the ’90s. Curiously, just a few hours later on the same day that I found it, the chap who recorded it the first time found it again, about half a mile or so from where I saw it! So having only ever been seen once in North Bucks, two people find it there on the same day - quite a bizarre coincidence!
29/07/2007 at 08:10 pm
Great find for your list.