Link to the Riverside Trail Leaflet: http://www.hertslink.org/cms/content/15488274/16532575/handwrt.pdf
Today we've been on January's walk with Ray's Rotary club, back to our old stomping grounds of Ware and Hertford. We met at Hartham Common, put on our walking boots and set off. It was cold and cloudy all morning but the visibility was fine, and the company good. We followed the River Beane, then crossed the fields to reach King's Meads and followed the New River all the way to Amwell End. Opposite the Saracen's Head in Ware we dropped down onto the towpath and walked beside the River Lea all the way back to Hertford, ending at The Old Barge on Folly Island for a very good lunch.
As we were chatting all the way we didn't see as many different birds as we might have hoped, and there were a lot of people out and about on this fine Sunday. However we did see 22 different species, namely: Buzzard, Kestrel, Black-headed Gull, Great Crested Grebe, Moorhen, Coot, Mute Swan, Canada Goose, Greylag Goose, Shelduck, Mallard, Gadwall, Pochard, Tufted Duck, Blackbird, Great Tit, Blue Tit, Robin, House Sparrow, Wood Pigeon, Feral Pigeon, Common Crow.
Mapped on a mobile phone app as 5.5 miles or thereabouts, the walk took us 2½ hours.
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