Day 85 - Today we had a walk around a local park - Milton Creek Country Park and I spied these turtles, something I didn't expect to see in a fishing lake!
The Park is a 128 acre site, which is a former landfill site which was capped off in 2003, when the physical work began creating the park, which now offers a natural play area, community events space, as well as an extensive network of paths through areas of different meadow, scrub and aquatic habitats that are home to many hundreds of animal species.
In recent years the country park itself habitats have been enhanced for a variety of wildlife - three ponds have been especially created for Great Crested Newts, wildflower meadows have been planted to attract bees, butterflies and many other insects. The Forestry Commission has provided funding for the planting of just under 7 hectares of trees, which in years to come support many more birds and insects
