Malden Rushett and one tweet

I thought that walking along the road to Malden Rushett and back (B.280) would be reasonably socially distancing, and so it proved, with my being able to make substantial detours around the few people that I met. I walked on the cycle track provided, while all the cyclists used the road - for which I don't really blame them: the cycle track is not that great and I am not a great fan of mixed use paths.

The junction

Including part of the power supply for south London, heading into town from the sub-station behind the trees, a little beyond the junction.

The pill-box

I came across this abandoned pill-box in the corner of a field a little to the east of the junction, on the northern side of the B.280. Presumably built against the possibility that the Wehrmacht had come through the Mole Gap - although I have no idea if the sub-station - critical national infrastructure now - existed in those days. I would guess not.

Green belt

Looking away from the pill-box, a bit of the green belt which is inside the M25 ring. With continuation of the power supply the other side of the field.

Quite a lot of handsome looking white dead nettles.

Down a track

Quite a lot of bushes in white flower in the hedges, all very bright and cheerful and the snap above does not do them justice. Nor did I get close enough to get identification detail. Maybe blackthorn?

Down the same track, we also had, in a bush, what looked like a very large coal tit. So it may have been something else and has not been scored as a tweet. Plus, under a bush, some sort of thrush, not a sort of bird I see very often - and not enough of this one to know what sort of thrush. So again, not scored as a tweet.

One cockerel out with his wives, about half a dozen of them, but they cleared out before I could get close enough to take their picture.

One field, with half a dozen or so small horses or ponies, the grass in even worse condition than that noticed at reference 2. A lot more brown than green. But they did have a pile of hay instead.

Honeysuckle box - with the mobile struggling a bit with the focus

Past the handsome honeysuckle box, noticed on various occasions in the past. See, for example, reference 3.

Back home, after the luncheon haggis, I thought to doze in the sun for a while, behind the garage, which provided good shelter from the cool north breeze. After a while I tweeted a buzzard circling to the south,  quite high up and quite some way away, probably over the edge of the common. At least, had I seen such a bird out in the country, I would have assumed it was a buzzard without thinking much about it.  The last notice of such a thing here at Epsom is to be found at reference 1. There was also the occasion when we tweeted what we thought was a sparrow hawk on the sheltered drive of a house near us, just about managing to take off with a wood pigeon in its mouth - with Wikipedia including a picture of a juvenile with one, so they are clearly up for it. Can't trace any mention of this tweet, so perhaps a long time ago.

Reference 1: https://psmv3.blogspot.com/2016/12/big-tweet.html.

Reference 2: https://psmv4.blogspot.com/2020/03/horton-country-park.html.

Reference 3: https://psmv3.blogspot.com/2017/05/honeysuckle-box.html.