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When? Started: 1993 Who? Started with staff and friends from U H S, Chester. Organiser: Martyn Harris We walk every Wednesday and Saturdays, New Years day and May Day. How many walk? Walks take place as long as there are at least 2 wanting to walk on that day. More walk on a Wednesday than on a Saturday. Most ever: 29. Current group size walking: 2-10 in mid-week and 2-4 on Saturday. Where do we walk? Saturday: Anywhere in North and Mid-Wales, Peak District, Shropshire and the Long Mynd and as far North as the Trough of Bowland. Thursday: Anywhere within about 40 miles of Chester. Type of walk: Distance: 6 – 14 miles (but usually under 10 miles). Climb: up to 4000’ (but usually very much less!). People involved on walks in 2020:- Martyn Harris, Fran Murphy, Sue and Michel Pelissier, Mike Dodd, David Savage, Wendy Peers, Celia de Mengle, Wendy and Ian Peers, Roger Smith, Paul Collinson, Ed Meads, Nigel and Elaine Taylor, Celia de Mengle, Sue Pearson.

Friday 30 December 2011

Walk Statistics 2011

Total number of walks - 101.
Walks cancelled due to bad weather - 1.
Walks cancelled because I don't like walking on my own - 3.
Where have we walked?
Wales - 71 walks.
Cheshire - 16 walks.
Peak District - 8 walks.
Lancashire - 5 walks.
Shropshire - 1 walk.
Total distance walked - 981.2 miles.
Total climb involved - 121, 003'.
Who has joined the group on a walk this year?
Martyn Harris, Dave and Sylvia Jenkins, Fran and Tito Ravazzolo, Sue and Michel Pelissier, Roger Smith, Annie Hammond, Celia de Mengel,Carol Herbstritt, Phil Marsland, Paul de Mengle, Gordon McNee, Sue and Dave Pearson, John and Elaine Greenhalgh, Paul Greenhalgh, Carol and Tim Dwyer, Mike Dodd, Paul Collinson, LeRoi Walwin, Wendy Peers and Georgie the Jack Russell, Richard Green, Becky Lennon and Indy the Lancashire healer/Jack Russell cross.
How many join each walk?
Thursday  2 -14.
Saturday 2-6.  Although we did get 11 on January 1st.
Birds seen or heard during our walks -126.
Barn swallow, Bar-tailed godwit, Black-billed magpie, Blackbird, Blackcap, Black-headed gull, Black-tailed godwit, Blue tit, Brent goose, Bullfinch, Chiffchaff, Chough, Coal tit, Collared dove, Common buzzard, Common coot, Common crossbill, Common gull, Commom redstart, Common sandpiper, Common starling, Common tern,Common whitethroat, Cuckoo, Curlew, Dipper, Dunlin, Dunnock, Eider duck, European robin, Feral pegeon, Fieldfare, Fulmar, Gadwall, Ganet, Goldeneye, Goldfinch, Goosander, Grasshopper warbler, Great black-backed gull, Great cormorant, Great spotted woodpecker, Great tit, Great crested grebe, Green woodpecker,Greenfinch, Greenshank, Grey heron, Grey wagtail, Greylag goose, Guillemot, He harrier, Herring gull, House sparrow, House martin, Jackdaw, Jay, Kestrel, Kittiwake, Knot, Lapwing, Lesser black-backed gull, Linnet, Little egret, Little grebe, Little gull, Long-tailed tit, Mallard, Meadow pipit, Mistle thrush, Moorhen, Muscovy duck, Mute swan, Nuthatch, Oystercatcher, Peregrine, Pheasant, Pied wagtail, Pintail, Puffin, Purple sandpiper, Raven, Razorbill, Red grouse, Red-breasted merganser, Red-legged partridge, Red kite, Redpoll, Redshank, Redstart, Redwing, Reed bunting, Ringed plover, Ring ouzel,Ring-necked parakeet, Rock dove, Rock pipit, Rook, Ruff, Sand martin,Shag, Sedge warbler, Shelduck, Short-eared owl, Skylark, Snipe, Song thrush, Stonechat, Sparrowhawk,Tawny owl, Teal, Tree sparrow, Tufted duck, Turnstone, Wheatear, Widgeon, Willow tit, Willow warbler, Winter wren, Treecreeper, Woodpigeon, Wood warbler, Yellowhammer.

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