Hills, golden leaves and crazy birds

With good weather, the autumn forests are just irresistible. And when you have them just a 10 min walk from home, it is almost a sin not to go there. I can spend hours wandering around with a camera in my hand.

But first, we have to get there. After the rains, the dirt roads between the fields were extremely muddy, but it was a small price to pay. And from there, you enter the colorful forest. This is why I love autumn.

This is mostly pine forest with some birches or acacias here and there. It is the bushes that add the colour with all the shades of yellow and red.

I was trying to catch a small spider, but it hid fast enough :p
I got the beetles instead, resting on grass.
There are not too many bugs at this time of the year.





Some rain or morning mist leftovers.





And of course, mushrooms! The warm weather and lots of rain are what they like the most. I could see them popping all over the place. Most were not edible (or unknown to me), so I just shot them.





Time to move on...
A little bit further away, the forest is a lot cleaner, and there are almost only pines. Tall, old trees.

I heard a bunch of **Nuthatches **fighting over something. Five or six of them were chasing each other from branch to branch. I tried to catch them, but Sigma is not a zoom lens, and this is the best I could do.
How many can you spot? :)





That's how this part of the forest looks. It was pure pleasure to walk on the soft ground.

And when I don't take the camera with me, this is part of my running route.



_{Follow the path...}


Few hills up, few hills down and nothing else but majestic pines.

This is my contribution to #wednesdaywalk by @tattoodjay

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_{Shot with Nikon D5500 + Sigma 105mm and Nikkor 18-55 lens
All photos and text are my own.}