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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: 2-7 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 2024:- Martyn Harris, Fran Murphy, Sue and Michel Pelissier, Mike Dodd, David Savage,, Ed Meads, Nigel and Elaine Taylor, Winston Feather.

Tuesday 12 January 2021

A Riverside Walk With a Kingfisher Twist 12th January 2021

A Riverside Walk With a Kingfisher Twist.
Looking towards Chester from The Riverside, Saltney.
Looking towards Chester from The Riverside, Saltney.
Somewhere in the picture is a Kingfisher.
Somewhere in the picture is ablurred blue dot -it's the Kingfisher.
Looking across the river and Airbus towards Moel Famau that seems to have lost most of its snow already.
Distance: 10.1 miles. Climb: 66'.
Time: 3 hours 50 minutes. On the move wa;lking average: 3.0 m.p.h. Overall walk average: 2.6 m.p.h.
Group: Martyn.
This was almost a perfect day for a walk, bright and sunny and hardly any wind, although it did feel cool whenever the Sun went behind clouds.
Lots of walkers out today, many of them with dogs, a few joggers and cyclists.
As i arrived at The Riverside on River Lane, the tide was pretty high and still rising, but by the time I arrived at Bumper's Lane, the tide had just started to ebb.
On my outward journey two Beluga's came into land, the XL and Beluga No. 5. The former took off and went over my head on the return journey.
As a change, I decided to do the Thornleigh Park Farm loop by first heading from Higher Ferry towards Sealand Road. What a bonus this turned out to be, as I approched Bees Cottages, I saw a Kingfisher and managed to get witthin about 10 m of it, but unfortunatley I didn't have a a camera with me. My smart phone camera merely shows it a bluish blurred dot!  Nevertheless seeing it made my day.
It was so nice that I decided to extend the walk as far as the Sealand Drainage Pumping Station, and the bonus this time was seeing a Little grebe.
Birds seen or heard today included: Mallard, Moorhen, Black billed magpie, Carrion crow, Common blackbird, European robin, great tit, Blue tit, Dunnock, Winter wren, Grey heron, Black headed gull, Herring gull, Great cormrant, Collared dove, House sparrow, Common starling, Jackdaw, Rook, Feral pigeon, Pied wagtail, Fieldfare, Redwing, Common redshank, Goldfinch, Common chaffinch, Woodpigeon, Mistle thrush, Little grebe and Kingfisher.
Overall a very enjoyable walk, taking full advantage of the good weather, possibly the best day of the weekd weatherwise.
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