In which Meadow Pipits chatter across an old common and Birch trees illuminate the last days of winter: a walk across Rockford Common in the New Forest

In which Meadow Pipits chatter across an old common and Birch trees illuminate the last days of winter: a walk across Rockford Common in the New Forest
In which I begin to learn about how to understand a landscape, by lifting my eyes and knowing where my feet are planted.
In which I visit a lovely common, and make friends with a brimstone butterfly ... In this post, I describe a walk across Rockford Common and through Roe and Little Linford Inclosures via the heaths of Bucksherd Bottom in the New Forest.