Paxton Pits

In preparation for a school trip, I took the girls for a spring walk around Paxton Pits which is about 45 minutes drive out of Cambridge. The Paxton Pits are 77 hectares of lakes, meadow, grassland, scrub and woodland, famous for its nightingales and cormorants and is home to a wide variety of other birds, insects, mammals and flora. The gravelled paths are pretty much all on the flat so walking is easy going, the choice is about how far you want to walk and whether you want to see pits, river or both. However, during the week the active gravel pits are used by heavy lorries so care has to be taken when driving in to and out of the car park. There is a visitors centre with free toilets and a small cafe!

 Evidence of Miner Bees: