Find autumn colour woods near you
Autumn is many people's favourite time to visit woods. The sun is low in the sky, with its slanting rays penetrating further into the wood than in summer, giving a soft golden light and making the bronzing leaves glisten like gilt. The autumn colours really are a sight to behold.
A thick carpet of leaves has usually fallen too, collecting around the tree roots or piling up in hollows and against banks. There is usually little vegetation on the forest floor but there are often colourful toadstools and other fungi, which feed on the leaf floor and have little need for light. They inturn become food for larvae, slugs and snails and for other animals such as deer, rabbits, squirrels and voles.