The end of a fine tree.
Time for a drink and rest in Ifton Meadows Local Nature Reserve.
A reminder of Ifton Meadows Local N.R. Past.
Is that really Moel Famau?
Lesser Celelandine on the verge.
Not a descent I want to repeat!
Wood anemone.
Not the best bridge to coss even with two lekis!
One of the youngest lambs seen on our walks this year.
Residents of a Rookery - my entertainment at my lunch spot atChirk Bank
The second part of my entertainment at my lunch spot at Chirk Bank
Two of the group decided that they wanted to go through the tumnnel, the rest of ther group didn't and waited for them by the station.
Walk Stats: Distance: 6.7 miles. Climb: 692’ (550’ on Memory Map Route)
Time: 3 hours 37 minutes. On the move walking average: 2.3 m.p.h. Overall walking average: 1.8 m.p.h.
Temperature: Max 16.1 Celsius In one of the quiet lanes, in a sheltered spot the Sun.
13.1 Celsius at lunch next to the Llangollen Canal at Chirk Bank.
Beaufort Wind Force: Max – 4 a moderate breeze at the most exposed spot west of Garden Village, St. Martin’s CP.
Group: Martyn, Fran, Nigel, David S, Mike and Wendy.
The weather forecast for today was pretty accurate, with rain/ showers on the menu between 12-00 and 13-00and at time strong winds (thankfully we didn’t experience the scale of gust predicted.
His was a walk Mike D found on the Country Walking site, an enjoyable varied walk with the Ifton Meadow Local Nature reserve being new to all of us. No Skyarks today or Bluebells today, so only the debate we could muster was as whether we could see Moel Famau or not!
Lunch was taken by the Llangollen Canal, most stopped at the first bench that they arrived, just as we could see a superb rainbow just above the trees. Not enough space to sit six and quite muddy as well, I continued to the next bench at Chirk Bank – same sort of bench set on a dry slab of concrete and in glorious sunshine by the time I got there. I was entertained by the Rooks in the Rookery behind me and the Mallards on the canal in front of me.
Birds seen or heard today included: Mallard, Rook, Common buzzard, Common pheasant, Common blackbird, Woodpigeon, House sparrow, Blue tit, Great tit, Winter wren and European robin.
After walk drinks were enjoyed at the Pant-yr-Ochain, where Purple Moose’s Snowdonia Ale and Titanic Brewery’s Plum Porter were tried. The latter went down better than the first!
A good walk, marred only by a little more road walking than necessary, a bad stile and decent and a footbridge that was collapsing (could be avoided by fording the stream, but no-one took up that option!)
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