Wandering the Colours of Gaunts Common with a Spaniel

We walk Gaunts Common's Fitness Trail daily. Always with a black spaniel named Inky, and sometimes her friends.

We all come to Gaunt's to see nature change. In both woodland and field. To watch the effects of agriculture and animal; listen to pheasants, owls, and bats; watch buzzards circle half a-mile high, drifting 2000 acres on a lazy breeze above the hilly landscape.

Mostly we visit to look up and watch the cloudscape and catch a few views of the farmed land on the horizon. Sometimes, with a tractor in sight, being followed by a cloud of squawking crows feasting on turned up worms or seeds.

If your visits are frequent, you'll recognise families of rabbits, foxes, owls; spot populations of deer and the signs of life they leave behind; and you'll see the forest grow and die a different way each season - where new paths unlock depending on the month.

There's always more to see, and it'll all have changed by next week, no matter where your footsteps take your when you're exploring Gaunt's Estate, there's forever more life to meet and learn about.

There's a history in the land, and vestiges of ancient woodland with a magic to it. With yew and rohan, hazel and walnut, tree's everywhere is what I'm saying - interesting ones, in abundance.

And interesting skies in abundance, too, every day a new dramatic cloudscape.