On Sunday the weather was so beautiful I just could not stay inside.  We finally decided to go to Banstead woods. We had never been there before and it’s a gem, that’s for sure.

We were laughing at the sign – somebody had given it a bobblehat!

We just had a nice walk following the walking trail (or trying to follow to trail anyway!).

I noticed all the greenery between the trees, it seems like big parts of the woods will be a carpet of bluebells in a few weeks and I am hoping to return to see it!

And while we were walking along, we saw something darting across the forest floor to a moss covered fallen tree. A head popped up from the tree and disappeared again. It quickly kept having a look at us while we were trying to catch a glimpse of it. The little fellow was either a stoat or a weasel, not quite sure which. I tried looking online to find out, but apparently they look a lot alike… I have never seen one before, so thought it quite exciting! I took some pictures, but it was quite far away and darted back and fro. The result was less than great, but I don’t care, we saw a stoat…. or a weasel… and it was cute!