Birding in the UK: British Birds of Village and Countryside, Field and Stream
While we began our trip across the UK last June in London, we certainly didn't stay there! Though the city offered a surprising amount of birds and other wildlife , and was a convenient base for a trip out to wetlands in the Thames estuary for even more encounters with nature, we were eager to travel north, where we would spend time rambling through the quiet countryside and impossibly picturesque villages of the Cotswolds and Yorkshire Dales. Mute Swan, an iconic British bird, in front of Bibury's idyllic Arlington Row. We stayed in a few different small villages as we made our way north to Scotland, and greatly enjoyed the UK's delightful network of footpaths that wind endlessly through the countryside linking one charming hamlet to another. From Bourton-on-the-Water, in the Cotswolds, we followed parts of the Monarch's Way; in the Yorkshire Dales, we trekked along the Dale's Way from our base in Grassington; and near Haltwhistle, we climbed steep sections of...
