North Yorkshire
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At the heart of the North York Moors National Park are the beautiful heather moorlands.
The call of the moorland birds, curlews and lapwings, punctuate the early summer and, as the autumnal evenings draw in, the flowering heather turns the moors into a purple carpet stretching for miles.
In winter the moors can be exceptionally beautiful, contoured by snow and frost.
Sneaton Forest combines the traditional diversity of old oak and ash forest with modern pine and spruce plantations. The older woodlands from May Beck to Falling Foss and downstream towards Littlebeck are set in a very picturesque steep-sided valley.
As might be expected from a wood containing very different characteristics the birds are also very varied. The old woodland still has birds such as nuthatch, tree creeper and the occassional pied flycatcher.
Amongst the sunny glades and around May Beck in particular can be found Adders, common lizards and slow-worms and butterflies such as small pearl-bordered fritillary.