Visitors to Mallards Pike Lakes are now able to use the new Café during their visit. Nearby in the tree canopy is the popular GoApe aerial activity and at ground level Segways can be hired.
Of course, visitors can also walk around the lakes or along miles of footpaths and tracks in the adjoining forest. New Fancy viewpoint is within easy walking distance- a lovely 3 mile round trip.
Geoff
Spring begins in the Forest of Dean
The warm weather in late March has seen Spring arrive in the Forest. Goshawk and Peregrine Falcon watchers joined the visitors and enjoyed the sunny weather at Symonds Yat Rock. The scene in the photo will soon look much different when the trees on the left burst into leaf.
Visitors may be interested to know that phone and 4G data coverage on the Rock is very good.
Walkers from Whitemead enjoy the fine February weather
A group of 29 walkers chose the Churchill enclosure option for their guided walk. They enjoyed the unseasonal fine, warm weather and were rewarded by a great distant view of two Wild Boar in the Forest. Later they were able to see two Adders basking in the warm sunshine. After joining the bird watchers looking for Goshawk at New Fancy, it was an easy walk in the sunshine back to Parkend.
Severn Bore at Minsterworth on 24 January 2019
The 3 star Severn Bore as seen near Minsterworth church today. Water flowed upstream behind the tidal waves that comprise the Bore at a rate of knots filling the channel within the next hour. Warming tea and coffee were on sale at the St Peter’s church along with delicious home made biscuits.
Minsterworth churchyard is the final resting place of poet F W Harvey and the recently installed stained glass Harvey window in the church is well worth seeing. The window was commissioned by the F W Harvey Society using funds donated by the public.
Estimated Wild Boar numbers in the Forest
Each year the Forestry Commission estimate the size of the Wild Boar population in the Forest of Dean.
The latest figure is for 2018 which estimated 1,635 wild boar were present in the area. The population changes can be seen in the graphic – from local paper, the Forest of Dean & Wye Valley Review.
