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Cowcroft

There are times when parts of Cowcroft Wood feel more like the Buckinghamshire Bayou although a rather chilly one today..
When I stopped to look at this fallen tree I disturbed a large bird of prey. It was difficult to get a clear id through the branches but I think a buzzard rather than a kite. There wasn't much visible in the way of birds otherwise apart from some corvids on the fields but I did disturb a roe deer. I have seen them in fields by Bunn's Lane and several times in Codmore Wood but this was actually the first time that I had seen one in Cowcroft. What was striking was how quietly she ran.

I don't know if landfull has started at Meadham's Farm but  landscaping of the surrounds has been done:
 

I still think that the old clay pits, cut into the side of the hill, would have been a better site for new housing than on green fields behind Hilltop. 



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