A Hot Morning in the Woods

The Woodland Belt at Wimpole is closed except one short path through Eversden Woods. I hope these infrared images give a feel of the almost impenetrable wildness of ivy and undergrowth that is developing in the undisturbed parts of the wood.

Wimpole Infrared

I took my Sony RX IR converted camera on a walk to Wimpole Folly today. The second image is the original jpeg from the Sony, profile produced in camera with whites set to neutral. All the colour changes to give blue skies  etc done in Lightroom.

The New Visitor Centre Welcomes Walkers to Wimpole (NT) Grounds

As with other National Trust properties Wimpole Park and Gardens remain open with a one-way route through the gardens to help maintain social distancing. The new car park and visitor centre opened in February  with a longer route to the stables, gardens and house but with plenty of room of parking. The old car park is being dug up and returned to parkland.

The new visitor centre itself is not a thing of beauty - I expected a more sympathetic and innovative design but I guess it will look better when the planting around it matures. I wondered who the designer was for the project and was amused by this quote in their write up of the new area - perhaps Capability has returned to oversee the work

Wimpole Estate is one of just a handful of Grade I Registered Parklands in the country with landscape works being carried out by notable designers such as ‘Capability’ Brown and Humphry Repton.

Wimpole Ground Feeding Birds

We went searching for the Hawfinches or even the reported Brambling but nothing around other than usual Greenfinches, Tits and this splendid Song Thrush that pulled worms out of the leaf litter very regularly, a Dunnock and Chaffinch with the deformed legs due to viral infection. Photography is a bit limited at the moment as in charge of 5 and 7 year old granddaughters and 5 month Golden Retriever pup while Mum and Dad are in Rome.

Wimpole farm

 Very cold wet visit toWimpole Farm today partly to see the Daffodils, which are not out properly yet, and the lambs.The pigs and donkey somehow got in on the act.

And Today It Is Snow

 Despite the cold wind and driving light snow, we enjoyed a walk at wimpole today. The falling snow resulted in great misty backgrounds to contrast against the winter trees.