The first bird of 2021 is a flock of redwings sweeping noisily across the cropped corn diligent as a search party. The field they quest over is the second in a row of fields that border the B4427 – The Old Gloucester Road – between Frogland Cross and Earthcott Green. These fields back onto Dockham ditch that runs from Hortham Brook – in what is now Woodland's Golf and Country Club (and used to be Baglands Farm) – to Oldfields Lane, behind Earthcottgreen Old Farm. I know this because I'm looking at a 19th century map superimposed on Bing satellite imagery on a website where this simple overlay provides a deep dive into evolving, lived-in landscapes.
Redwing
Redwing
Redwing
The first bird of 2021 is a flock of redwings sweeping noisily across the cropped corn diligent as a search party. The field they quest over is the second in a row of fields that border the B4427 – The Old Gloucester Road – between Frogland Cross and Earthcott Green. These fields back onto Dockham ditch that runs from Hortham Brook – in what is now Woodland's Golf and Country Club (and used to be Baglands Farm) – to Oldfields Lane, behind Earthcottgreen Old Farm. I know this because I'm looking at a 19th century map superimposed on Bing satellite imagery on a website where this simple overlay provides a deep dive into evolving, lived-in landscapes.