I popped out for a walk late afternoon/early evening and decided to head down to the Flitch Way in Dunmow. I’ve been on the Flitch Way at Little Dunmow and Little Canfield, but never in Great Dunmow. So off I set, thinking I knew exactly how to get to it…of course I didn’t and ended up walking along a field edge by the A120 for some time. As luck would have it this actually joined the Flitch Way at Buttleys Lane.
The Flitch Way is on the site of the old Bishop’s Stortford to Braintree railway line, long since removed in the 1950’s but there is still the occasional piece of track lying around and brick bridges abound. I soon reached Dunmow Cutting – the deepest cutting on this line and now a haven to wild flowers and grasses. I was looking at the scabious’ when I spotted this golden long horned moth resting. By the length of its horns it is a male.
