A favourite spot for us to visit in winter time, for frosty or snowy walks, is Knettishall Heath, just in Suffolk, a few miles east of Thetford.
It is real Breckland territory and the start of the Peddars Way, which finishes at Holme-next-the-Sea on the north Norfolk Coast. We went there on Saturday for a summer afternoon walk along the river Little Ouse, which, as you can see, is none too big at this point (the source is only a couple of miles away at Thelnetham). We saw loads of butterflies, but what I thought was a Chequered Skipper...
..turned out to be a Speckled Wood. I guess it was a bit optimistic to think we had found a species thought to be extinct in England, but they do look quite similar.
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