Ixworth Walk

Dawn suggested we go for a walk before lunch this morning. I suggested we do again the walk we did last January from Ixworth (see here).

Here are a few photos.

We started our walk here at just before 10:30.

It wasn't long before we came to some snowdrops.

In the grounds of Ixworth Abbey...

We spotted this feature, that we hadn't noticed before.

The Black Bourne was rather full, but not overflowing.. well not here, at least.

Out into the country....

...I remembered to look back to get this first view of Pakenham Windmill.

As we had seen them before, we were on the lookout for deer, and we found 3 in a field. This was the nearest.

A little later we saw the two stags having a bit of a tiff.

At the furthest easterly point of our walk was this patch of last year's sunflowers. Were they being left to self-seed, or as feed for the birds?

Down the hill towards the main road and the windmill, there were another couple of walkers in front of us...

...who we overtook just before the windmill.

Onwards to the watermill.

The mill race was running very fast. What was Dawn pointing at?

No it wasn't the topiary animals...

...but a great egret!

In the gardens of some of the houses in Grimstone End we found some lovely displays of snowdrops.

Then it was back to Ixworth.

...where we found these cheerful crocuses...

...before heading back up the High Street to the car.

That was as lovely as ever and we got the triple bonuses of the deer, snowdrops and great egret.

You can see more details of our route here on MapMywalk and more of my photos here on Flickr