Walk with Ray around this relatively remote spot northwest of Henley.
Warburg Nature Reserve is owned by BBOWT. It's somewhere I’d noted while map-browsing but probably not somewhere I would have driven to by myself. From Henley, it’s accessed by taking the A4130 out of town. We turned off onto the B480 through Lower and Middle Assendon and then turned left onto Rectory Lane, but it would probably have been more direct to carry on to Bix and turn off there. The minor road goes down into Bix Bottom and then you carry on following it until you get to a car park with, surprisingly, also a small Visitor Centre.
The Visitor Centre had a picture of some strikingly blue fungi, though we didn’t see any of those. The woman there encouraged us to write any species of bird we saw on the board, though I am not much of a bird-spotter and also fight the urge to deface such lists by writing “Superb Bird of Paradise” or similar on them.
We had a lovely walk through the wooded valley.
Afterwards we went over to Stoke Row and had tea at the café at the Stoke Row Store.
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