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(G damselfly demoiselle banded blue For more information from Arriva Buses call call Buses Arriva from information more For occasionally but brown rats are much more more much are rats brown but occasionally www.eastherts.gov.uk/stortfordcarparks onwards is the spectacular metallic green or or green metallic spectacular the is onwards recorded. Water voles can be seen seen be can voles Water recorded. Road (for Bat Willow Hurst). Willow Bat (for Road Car Parking Car The most common insect here in late spring spring late in here insect common most The thrushes and a variety of finches can be be can finches of variety a and thrushes Dane Street, The Causeway and Michaels Michaels and Causeway The Street, Dane song; frequently heard but seldom seen. seen. seldom but heard frequently song; trail northbound or southbound. or northbound trail well-established trees blackbirds, song song blackbirds, trees well-established Stortford Interchange (near the train station), station), train the (near Interchange Stortford Cetti’s warbler may burst into their explosive explosive their into burst may warbler Cetti’s the left side of Station Bridge and follow the the follow and Bridge Station of side left the can be found here and in the the in and here found be can Twyford Mill), South Street, Bishop’s Bishop’s Street, South Mill), Twyford common sound from the sedge near the path. path. the near sedge the from sound common ; access the Navigation via via Navigation the access ; Interchange Bus Mallards, moorhens (B) and occasionally coot coot occasionally and (B) moorhens Mallards, stops are located at Whittington Way (for (for Way Whittington at located are stops winter, the screeching of water rails is a a is rails water of screeching the winter, From the Station, walk towards town past the the past town towards walk Station, the From Castle Gardens (6-7) Gardens Castle The 510 bus runs daily every 30 minutes. Bus Bus minutes. 30 every daily runs bus 510 The Bishop’s Stortford Train Station Station Train Stortford Bishop’s cattle are kept to enhance the habitat. In In habitat. the enhance to kept are cattle Bus Routes Bus bloom over the marshy area where longhorn longhorn where area marshy the over bloom wrens and robins feed and breed. and feed robins and wrens built in 1086 by the Normans. the by 1086 in built Willow Hurst Country Park (CM23 2TH). (CM23 Park Country Hurst Willow be observed. Ragged robin and cuckoo flowers flowers cuckoo and robin Ragged observed. be and large burdock plants fill the banks where where banks the fill plants burdock large and Pool, Play Area and Waytemore Castle Castle Waytemore and Area Play Pool, hrs free), Cannon Mill Lane Car Park and Bat Bat and Park Car Lane Mill Cannon free), hrs call from willows and resident water voles may may voles water resident and willows from call seen. Common comphrey, Indian balsam balsam Indian comphrey, Common seen. upstream passes the children’s Splash Splash children’s the passes upstream Car Park (CM22 7PA), Grange Paddocks (2 (2 Paddocks Grange 7PA), (CM22 Park Car skulking grasshopper warblers. Reed buntings buntings Reed warblers. grasshopper skulking and occasional redpoll can be heard and and heard be can redpoll occasional and to Castle Park. This route heading heading route This Park. Castle to reserve, is a great site for Barn owls and and owls Barn for site great a is reserve, alders along the bankside, flocks of siskins siskins of flocks bankside, the along alders over The Causeway at the crossing crossing the at Causeway The over Thorley Wash Reserve, the premier local local premier the Reserve, Wash Thorley and grey wagtails hawk for insects. In the the In insects. for hawk wagtails grey and 2. Walk down Bridge Street, cross cross Street, Bridge down Walk 2. South of Twyford Locks (20-21) Locks Twyford of South fish, particularly chub and roach, whilst pied pied whilst roach, and chub particularly fish, trail to Twyford Mill. Twyford to trail feeding environment for a wide variety of of variety wide a for environment feeding chance that a glorious red kite will be seen. be will kite red glorious a that chance Navigation. From there take the the take there From Navigation. carrion crows and starlings. The weir offers a a offers weir The starlings. and crows carrion peacock and whites. Overhead, a good good a Overhead, whites. and peacock right, the first part of the the of part first the right, large flocks of gulls may be seen along with with along seen be may gulls of flocks large including small tortoiseshell, red admiral, admiral, red tortoiseshell, small including come to Hockerill Cut on your your on Cut Hockerill to come roost in tree holes. On the playing fields fields playing the On holes. tree in roost are a magnet for many butterfly species, species, butterfly many for magnet a are and on The Causeway you will will you Causeway The on and seen circling on thermals whilst tawny owls owls tawny whilst thermals on circling seen Buddleia bushes adjacent to the lock gates gates lock the to adjacent bushes Buddleia right-hand side, pass the library library the pass side, right-hand dragonflies. Overhead, buzzards can be be can buzzards Overhead, dragonflies. A wide variety of fish reside in the river here. here. river the in reside fish of variety wide A 1. Walk down Bridge Street on the the on Street Bridge down Walk 1. can be witnessed along with a range of of range a with along witnessed be can amphibians or a newly hatched duckling (F). (F). duckling hatched newly a or amphibians Centre winter months whilst in summer damselflies damselflies summer in whilst months winter grass snakes swimming in search of of search in swimming snakes grass From the Tourist Information Information Tourist the From Kingfishers can be seen here through the the through here seen be can Kingfishers canalised stretch is a good place for seeing seeing for place good a is stretch canalised Grange Paddocks (2-5) Paddocks Grange CAR PARKING CAR chaffinches and magpies. The next wide, wide, next The magpies. and chaffinches TRAIL ROUTES AND ROUTES TRAIL (A) and common blue. common and (A) dragonfly species may be seen as well as tits, tits, as well as seen be may species dragonfly variety of butterflies including brown argus argus brown including butterflies of variety Reserve, Rushy Mead. Damselfly and and Damselfly Mead. Rushy Reserve, in high summer, native plants attract a good good a attract plants native summer, high in reside in the small Herts Wildlife Trust Trust Wildlife Herts small the in reside mallards, moorhens and grey wagtails whilst whilst wagtails grey and moorhens mallards, insects. Tree creepers and nuthatches also also nuthatches and creepers Tree insects. towards the Town Centre and onwards to Twyford Mill (or vice versa). vice (or Mill Twyford to onwards and Centre Town the towards Balancing pools here offer feeding sites for for sites feeding offer here pools Balancing where great spotted woodpeckers search for for search woodpeckers spotted great where Those with buggies and wheelchairs can start the trail from Grange Paddocks heading heading Paddocks Grange from trail the start can wheelchairs and buggies with Those sites for other warblers and buntings. buntings. and warblers other for sites this stretch are mainly willow and large ash ash large and willow mainly are stretch this unpaved with field boundaries, which would be unsuitable for buggies and wheelchair users. users. wheelchair and buggies for unsuitable be would which boundaries, field with unpaved birds such as reed warblers and roosting roosting and warblers reed as such birds and more coots and moorhens. Trees along along Trees moorhens. and coots more and during wet weather. From Bat Willow Hurst southbound to Grange Paddocks the trail is partly partly is trail the Paddocks Grange to southbound Hurst Willow Bat From weather. wet during reedbeds, offering nesting opportunity for for opportunity nesting offering reedbeds, Further along, Canada geese may be seen seen be may geese Canada along, Further The way is flat, unfenced, has country gates but no stiles, and it may be muddy after and and after muddy be may it and stiles, no but gates country has unfenced, flat, is way The The river banks are overgrown with with overgrown are banks river The such as green woodpecker and jay (E). (E). jay and woodpecker green as such pubs and popular bars. bars. popular and pubs Bat Willow Hurst Country Park (1) Park Country Hurst Willow Bat egrets (D), kingfishers and woodland birds birds woodland and kingfishers (D), egrets shopping. Have a bite to eat in the various restaurants, or have a drink in the many historic historic many the in drink a have or restaurants, various the in eat to bite a Have shopping.