Brock Wood Wildlife Reserve


Spring is definitely on the way as the evenings get lighter and the temperatures start to rise.  Now I have said that I'm pretty sure winter will return with vengeance!  But the days are certainly getting longer and this means the opportunities to get out and photograph East Lothian are increasing.

Instead of going to the same locations like Barns Ness, Belhaven, Seacliffe and Tyningham all the time I have decided to get the OS map out and look for new photographic opportunities around Dunbar.  On Saturday evening I headed up into the hills around the village of Spott and with a very misty and overcast end of the day it turned into a recce run rather than a photographic trip.

However as the light was starting to fade I came across Brock Wood Wildlife Reserve so I decided to stop the car and go for a walk.  A grey and lifeless sky doesn't really matter when photographing in the trees, in fact the diffused light is perfect.



The wooded area is filled with a variety of trees including silver birch, oak and beech.  The paths are well marked and lead down to a small burn.


I didn't see any wildlife but I did see some red deer in a field near to the reserve but too far away to photograph.  I came across a small area of dead trees covered in large fungi.




Brock Wood is somewhere I have now marked on my map for a visit in the near future when spring has finally arrived as there is plenty of evidence of wild flowers amongst the trees.




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