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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.

Monday, 8 February 2021

A Shorter Saltney Ferry - Old Dee Bridge Round 8th February 2021

A Shorter Saltney Ferry - Old Dee Bridge Round.
Snowdrops below the Wales Coast Path, south east of Higher Ferry.
A Grey heron on the Saltney side of the river.
A Raven foraging in a field close to the border.
A Mistle thrush perching on a hedge to next to the Wales Coast Path.
Great cormorants, Herring gulls and Moorhen on a mud/sand bank oppsite The Cop.
11 Great cormorants perched in a tree below Dingle Bank, Curzon Park.
Chester weir from the Old Dee Bridge.
A female Goosander fishing below the Old Dee Bridge.
Distance: 8.4 miles. Climb: 110'.
Time: 3 hours 8 minutes. On the move walking average: 3.2 m.p.h. Overall walk average: 2.6 m.p.h.
Max wind speed: 12.6 m.p.h. Lowest temperature: 4.1 Celcius.
Group: Martyn.
A good day for walkng, although the cold wind demanded only brief times when hands were exposed to the elements. There were also has brief spells of hail, so small it was rather difficult to establish that it was hail!
It was good to see Snowdrops out a Daffodils too,  but will I be "free" in time to go on a "Bluebell Wood Walk"?
Plenty of people out, but I think lockdown must be getting to most of them, eyes down, no eye contact, few smiles and even fewer bothered to reply to a "good morning or hi".
However once on the Saltney side of the river all three people spoke and even smiled!
Birds seen or heard today included: Feral pigeon, Black billed magpie, Dunnock, House sparrow, Raven, Great cormorant, European robin, Herring gull, Lesser blackdk back gull, Black headed gull, Common gull, Common blackbird, Collared dove, Moorhen, Mallard, Teal, Blue tit, Great tit, Song thrush, Winter wren, Woodpigeon, Carrion crow, Jackdaw, Grey heron, Goldfinch, House sparrow and Goosander.

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