Love of Nature, Walks Tree Pipits and Cuckoos! 14 May 2023 Ian Alexander Tree Pipit singing sweetly. Its perch has been well drilled by Woodpeckers. Wide views over heath, hill, and woodland as far as the eye can see: Puttenham Common from Hillbury Hill Fort The Tarn on Puttenham Common, a remarkably big body of water surrounded by beautiful Oak – Birch – Holly forest An enormous coppice stool of Holly, a most surprising tree to find coppiced, beside the main forest track running north from the Tarn. It must be ancient to have grown to such a size. A fabulous big moss, I think Atrichum Another gorgeous big moss, surely Polytrichum