The Minera Lead Mine Centre.
A Pyrimidal orchid near the path above Minera Quarry.
The most common orchid seen today - the Common spotted orchid.
Ponies grazing in the field south west of Minera Quarry.
The first juvenile Whinchat seen.
An unexpected filming of a Whinchat.
One of the Whinchats seen today.
Looking across the valley towards Esclusiam Mountain.
An Oak Eggar caterpillar.
The sound of a Skylark at lunchtime.
The remains of an Adder on the road to World' End.
A Ringlet butterky near Fron-deg.
This is one turkey that must have enjoyed Christmas 2021.
Walk stats:
Distance: 8.2 miles. Climb: 1100.
Time: 5 hours 20 minutes. On the move walking average: 2.0 m.p.h. Overall wlk average: 1.5 m.p.h.
Temperature: Max 21.2 Celsius. Lunch - 19.8 Celsius. Minimum - 16.8 Celsius on the World's End Road.
Beufort Wind Force: 0-3. Mainly a light breeze, reaching a 10 m.p.h gentle breeze on the World's End Road.
Group: Martyn, Sue and Michel, Nigel, Mike and Fran.
The weather forecast was pretty accurate today, sunshine and showers. The worst showers came just as we were having lunch and at the end of the walk.
This walk has in the past presented challenges in terms of finding paths that don't seem to seen on the ground. Today was no exception and from Fron-deg onwards a nightmare - never to be repeated. The path through the "turkey" farm disappeared, other paths were overgrown and blocked by fallen trees and very muddy.
Apart from that this was an enjoyable walk!
Around Minera Quarry we saw lots of Common spotted orchids and a few Pyramidal orchids.
Birds see or heard today included: Common chaffinch, Woodpigen, Black billed magpie, Winter wren Common blackbird, Carrion crow, Jackdaw, Stonechat and Whinchat.
After walk drinks were enjoyed at the Pant yr Ochain a Gresford where the beer of choice was Snowdonia Ale from the Purple Moose Brewery.
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