What kind of environment is your favourite to walk in for wildlife?

I love walking in woods and forests, there is something so special about going for a long walk in the local woods when it is is hot summers day. The range of wildlife you can see if you are careful is also brilliant.

I also like walking across heathland and watching the butterflies in the summer.

I like wetlands...even with the mozzies/bugs. There is such a variety of life to be experienced in a wetland.

We don't get heathland here, but we do get sagebrush, and prairie. We'll be visiting the sagebrush part of Washington state in the coming week, along with some Ponderosa pine environment.

I'll take photos!

Kingfisher

My perfect walk would be up through hillside woodland to reach an open summit with fantastic views out over the surrounding countryside - Box Hill in Surrey comes to mind. I also love coastal paths with a refreshing sea breeze to cool down a hot summer's day .

Remote cliifs overlooking the sea for me, such beautiful views on a clear day.

I also love coastal paths with a refreshing sea breeze to cool down a hot summer's day .

Sounds very inviting, that would also be on my list.

My favourite is walking through pine forests, I love the smell and feel of them on a sunny day.

One of my favourite walks is at Norfolk's Blakeney hardbour. There is a small island that shelters the dock which is also a bird reserve. You can walk a certain distance along it to a small tea house which is in a retired mill. The wildlife there is very varied and the sea breeze makes it a fantastic walk. At the very end of the island there is a colony of seals which you can't walk to, but you can take boat rides around the see them. They are very bold and pop there heads out the water right next to the boat, its a great experience and I would recommend it to anyone who is in the Norfolk area.

That's interesting that they don't mind the human boats, do the boats feed them or are they just inquisitive?

I went on a walk yesterday through the woods with the sunlight coming through the trees, it was beautiful.

As far as I know, they aren't fed by the boats. They probably just see the boats so often (I think there is a tour every 20 minutes!) that they know they are not a threat. If anything, they probably get sick of the constant stream of visitors!

Oh, I don't know about that! The less energy they have to spend moving to get fed, the fatter they get .

Sea lions do the same thing:

http://www.theinsider.com/SF/Attractions...sWharf.htm

Kingfisher

In my garden, as it is my little patch in the world and I feel very lucky to have it. Mind you it does not take long to walk around but there is always plenty to stop and look at with my chickens at my heals!

I would have to say woods and forests. There is just something about the kind of light that you get in a wood or forest the closeness of the interior the velvety light and the sounds underfoot and in the vicinity to you the rustles and cracks that make you start a little. Then you come across the glades with light streaming in through sun dappled leaves. You really can't beat it.

It also helps if the woodland / forest is near to a lake or a river as well.

I guess that is why the lower lakes like Rydal Water are my favourite spots.

The Dartmoor landscape is also a favourite haunt but in a very different way and out of the two I'd rather be in the forest.

There is something special about woodland that go right up to the lakeside, so you can't see the lake until you are almost on top of it and then it suddenly stretches infront of you.

I'm fairly lucky where I live, which is in a valley through which a river runs. On one side of the valley I have moors and woodland while on the other side are high hills over fifteen hundred feet. I much prefer walking in the woodland as there is a greater diversity of wildlife than on the hills. The views from the hills are spectacular but the getting up there isn't.

Alonng a windsweapt coast or along a riverbank.

My favorite place to walk is by the coast. There's something about being beside the sea that I love, in any season. It's wild and primal and reminds you you're pretty insignificant. There's nothing like watching seabirds gliding and soaring above the waves. I especially love Cornwall, and the bits of the South West coast path I've been on so far.

I also find river estuaries great for wildlife, especially the Hayle in Cornwall, and the Exe in Devon. On the latter, I took an RSPB Avocet cruise in January, it was so good, I wondered why I hadn't done it before - a 3 hour cruise and only £11 - highly recommended.