Backstone Bank, Weardale Spring has given way to stillness – the gentle descent into autumn will soon begin
It had been more than four months since we last walked through this woodland. Gone were the songs of wood warblers and blackcaps. Gone too the carpet of spring flowers, of woodruff, sanicle, primroses, wood sorrel and bugle, now hidden under arching fern fronds below a closed canopy of leathery oak leaves.
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Source: Guardian Environment