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Wieś Czarnocin
The “Boże Oko” forest reserve lies beside the village of Czarnocin in the Strzelce district, on the eastern edge of the Silesian Upland. It owes its name to a nearby wayside shrine; local tradition says a forester saw the triangular sign of the Eye of God here while hunting.
The terrain is strongly sculpted: deep gullies, karst sinkholes and dry valleys with broad floors. The reserve protects an upland forest with impressive beeches around 130–150 years old and over 30 metres tall; some of them qualify as monumental specimens. Alongside the beeches grow hornbeams, birches, larches, spruces and pines.
More than a hundred vascular plant species have been recorded here, including protected orchids: the large-flowered helleborine and the bird's-nest orchid. Several dozen bird species nest in the reserve, among them buzzard, grey-headed woodpecker, raven and collared flycatcher. Marked hiking trails cross the area.
