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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, 1 March 2021

A Cool St., David's Day Stroll 1st March 2021.

A misty start to the stroll along the Wales Coast Path on the way to Queensferry.
The tidal bore on the River Dee near the Airbus Barge Dock.
One of the four Whooper swans near Deeside House.
A distant Little egret next to the Sealand Drainage Gutter.
The resident Common kestrel looking down on me.
Young people having fun on a motor bike on the other side of the river.
The only Daffodils that I saw that didn't look as though they had been deliberatley planted there.
Beluga ST 1 coming into land.
Distance: 9.9 miles. Climb: 125'
Time: 4 hours 2 minutes. On the move walking average: 3.0 m.p.h. Overall walk average: 2.4 m.p.h.
Wind speed: 0-5.2 m.p.h. Temeperature: 6.8 - 9.0 Celsius.
A little misty at first and at tims feeling quite cool, although it felt very pleasant when the Sun came out. on this occasion, I hadn't set off hoping to see the tidal bore, heard a noise coming from the river and turned round to see  the bore approaching.
The Whooper swans were still grazing in the same field, but the sound of Skylarks singing was a joy to hear, although I still wasn't able to actually spot one.
Birds seen or hear today included: Collared dove, Common blackbird, Woodpigeon, Greenfinch, Dunnock, European robin, Common starling, Blue tit,Great tit, Winter wren, Mallard, Oystercatcher, Lapwing, Black headed gull, Little egret, Common redshank, Common buzzard, Goldfinch, Carrion crow, Long tailed tit, Pied wagtail, Black billed magpie, House sparrow, Common kestrel, Whooper swan and Sylark.

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