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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.

Wednesday 24 March 2021

Another Variation of The Saltney Ferry Riverside Circuit 24th March 2021

A Jet flypast.
A lonley male Mallard.
A Calling Chiffchaff and singing Skylark.
The re-instated footbridge over the Sealand Drainage Gutter.
The field path adjacent to the Sealand Drainasge Gutter on the way to the sealand shooting School (hoping to reopen on 12th April 2021).
Another example of "single use plastic" - preventing frost damage to plants and encouraging them to grow.
The Beluga XL 3 approaching Airbus, Hawarden.
A sound that usually confuses me, until I realise it is just another calling Chaffinch.
A European robin in the bushes near home.
Distance: 10.4 mils. Climb: 151'
Time: 4 hours 17 minutes. On the move walking average: 2.9 m.p.h. Overall walk average: 2.4 m.p.h.
Beaufort Wind Force: 2. Temperature: 9.8 - 14.2 Celsius.
Group: Martyn
Another really good day for walking, feeling quite warm and with only a light breeze - definitley a shorts day!
Birds seemed quiet today, although I did hear several Chiffchaffs and see a singing Skylark. Aircraft flying into Hawarden were quite numerous, starting with a training jet, two light aircraft, a Beluga XL and the Police helicopter.
Birds seen or heard today included: Mallard, Woodpigeon, Great tit, Dunnock, Common blackbird, Greenfinch, European robin, Pied wagtail, Common chaffinch, Goldfinch, Oystercatcher, Raven, Herring gull, Jackdaw, Chiffchaff, Skylark, Canada goose, House sparrow, Winter wren, Carrion crow, Jackdaw, Common starling, Black headed gull, Great cormorant, Feral pigeon, Black billed magpie and Common buzzard.
My route today, avoided the Wales Coast Path, except for about 200m so i came across very few people and even fewre cyclists.s However the latter did give me my biggest surprise of the day - four cyclists choosing to ride on the road rather than on the adjacent footpaths!
It was good to see the hedges starting to "green up" and a variety of blossom and catkins showing.
Overall an enjoyable walk, and home to find my lawn dry enough to give it its first cut of the year.
Once again it was a clean boots walk, always a bonus end to a walk.
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