Delamere Forest and Pale Heights.
Blue skies and Roger at Pale Heights.
Blakemere Moss and the Lancashire hills from Pale Heights.
The new Delamere Forest visitor centre from the Pale Heights Path.
The dragonfly wood sculpture near the visitor centre.
The front of Delamere Visitor Centre.
One of the recently created meres/mosses.
The view from a bench, but we could not take advantage of it, as it was already occupied!
Distance: 7.6 miles. Climb: 560'.
Time: 3 hours 56 minutes. On the move walking average: 2.3 m.p.h. Overall walk average: 1.9 m.p.h.
Group: Martyn and Roger.
We arrived at The Yeld with the Sun shining, blue skies and breeze that was on the cool side. Nevertheless it was a good day for walking and when we were shielded from the wind by the trees, but with the Sun still shining on us it was very pleasant indeed.
We had good distant views in all directions from Pale Heights, but as you might expect after that, the views were somewhat limited.
As we descended from Pale Heights, we had superb views of the new impressive Delamere Forest Visitor Centre.
We didn't get much of a view of Blakemere Moss as we couldn't get near to the water edge due to the need to social disance, but I did here Lapwings calling.
Approaching Barns Bridge Gate, it was great to bump into Eileen and Tony two of my WEF family members at church. They were, like us, out for a walk with their son and grandson and like me missing being unable to go to live church services as it used to be pre-covid and all of its restrictions.
Most of our walk throgh the forest was a gentle and pleasant stroll long broad forest tracks/road, with the occasional paths off the main tracks, giving us a more of a feel of being in the forest.
Our main problem today was finding a suitable stop to have lunch. A picnic site marked on the OS map, didn't actually exist, even if it had done so some time in the past.
However we were able to find a suitable fallen tree that provided us a place to sit and have lunch at an approriate social distance. In fgact this fallen tree trunk would have accommodated about six people, all socially distancing.
Birds seen or hea\rd today were few and far between, and our best view was of a Common buzzard that flew over the railway at head height just infront of us. Other birds included: European robin, Woodpigeon, Wood nuthatch and Carrion crow. I did hear other bird calls, but alas might ability to identify bird song and calls isn't as good as I would like.
We arrived back at the cars, having had a very enjoyable walk, with the Sun still shining, but with not quite so much blue sky as when we set off.
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