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10th December 2011
Hiking - Walking: Pin Mill to Levington
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Distance Covered: 6.25 miles (Nautical Miles - unless stated otherwise)

What a top winter's day, sunny,mild with light winds and it's time to get those walking boots on again :)
Mag and I pack a picnic and head to Chelmondiston stopping off at The Strand near the Orwell bridge for breakfast and with the tide high there were loads of birds right near the bank !!! We park up and walk down into Pin Mill. The tide is over the road so we have to walk though the Butt and Oyster carpark and climb down the wall to get onto the footpath into Cliff Plantation - lovely wood on the banks of the River Orwell and see several squirrels :) We come out on the banks of the river at Clamp House and the start of a fantastic stretch of marshes with Colton Creek in the middle. There are hundreds of birds - I think we see 32 sorts on our walk including a large owl,herons,egrets,oyster catchers,brent greese,turnstones,curlews,godwits,sandpipers,grebes,
pheasants,partridges,widgeons,redshanks etc etc etc :) We end up at a spot opposite Levington Marina sadly called 'Jills Hole' :( where we stop for our picnic.We try and get back by Hill House Farm but the footpath has been closed so we back track along the river past Orwell Cottages before heading inland a bit past the reservoir near Colton Cottages where we scared the life out of the ducks, coots and two Egyptian Greese.We then walked past a huge shooting area with pheasants feeders and loads of pheasants but unlike in France nobody with shotguns perhaps it's not the season ???
Then back past the ponds near Clamp House along the fields through the stables to our van, we were gone over four hours and covered over 6 miles in the sunshine - a top day :)

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