Nightingale Bridge and Hilly Fields

While waiting at Parsonage Bridge, John spotted this egret looking for its breakfast and managed to get a quick photo before it flew away.

We walked down from Bridge House to Nightingale Bridge clearing a few stragglers as we went. Thanks to our previous visits this area is a significant improvement over last year. Instead of pink balsam, the edge of the field is covered in white cow parsley.

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The cow parsley and the nettles are making the footpath a bit more difficult to access however.

At Nightingale Bridge we crossed over into Hilly Fields and cleared huge numbers growing along the field edge by the river.

From this...	... to this

There's just one more massive clump in the corner of the field still to deal with. There's also a lot growing by the bridge on the Watley's End side of the river and spreading up a ditch towards the stables. We didn't come across any ripe seeds yet so we might be able to get in  few more sessions to deal with those.