In our new series which we have named after birds there are 15 caches to be found. Pen and tweezers may be required.
These are our first attempt at hiding caches.
The series covers a walk of roughly 2.5 miles on country lanes and public footpaths, with a stretch alongside a fairly busy road.
Sparrows
Noisy and gregarious, these cheerful exploiters of man's rubbish and wastefulness have managed to colonise most of the world. The ultimate avian opportunist perhaps. Monitoring suggests a severe decline in the UK house sparrow population, recently estimated as dropping by 71 per cent between 1977 and 2008 with substantial declines in both rural and urban populations. While the decline in England continues, Breeding Bird Survey data indicate recent population increases in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.