Chester weir.
A Great cormorant with gulls on Chester Weir.
"What colour are my legs?"
Moorhen near Chester Meadows.
The information board for the Diamond Jubilee Wood, but we couldn't get anywhere near it due to the boggy/flooded ground it was standing in.
looking down on the path through The Dingle tat we had used at the start of the walk from the meeting point at Overleigh Roundabout.
Field forget-me-nots near Saltney Quay.
A Greenfinch on the Riverside Path, south east of Saltney Ferry Footbridge.
Time: 6 hours 2 minutes. On the move walking average: 2.7 m.p.h. Overall walk average: 2.2 m.p.h.
Group: Martyn and Roger.
With a weather forecast suggestiing a feel like temperature of 3 Celsius, I set off in my full Paramo Winter gear - in the morning with the Sun blasting down, this was a mistake, shorts and a T-shirt would have been the better option. However after lunch when it clouded over, I felt more comfortable wearing, rather than anishing my jacket to my rucksack.
a couple of weeks ago, the rverside path between Chester Meadows and Eccleston was quite muddy and in places water logged, but today this wasn't an issue - clean boots again!
a couple of weeks ago, the rverside path between Chester Meadows and Eccleston was quite muddy and in places water logged, but today this wasn't an issue - clean boots again!
Birds seen or heard today included: Great cormorant, Herring gull, Black headed gull, Lesser black back gull, Commoon blackbird, Moorhen, Mallard, Woodpigeon, Chiffchaff, Song thrush, Winter wren, Chiffchaff, Willow warbler, Goldfinch, Greenfinch, Comon whitethroat, Collared dove, Common starling, Blue tit and Great tit.
We were surprised to see several people about to get into the river for a swim, and one man that was drying of having already been in for a swim, a challenge today in avoiding the constant stream of boats sculling their way upstream.
One thing we did learn is that the rowers in their boats are relatively quiet, but their coaches in motor boats shouting instructions ARE NOT! Noise polution almost as bad as that of vehicles o the A55! No chance of seeing a Kingfisher today!
The only person that we bumped into that I knew was Linda P, a friend from my school days, taking her elderly Lab for walk around the Meadows.
Plenty of walkers out today, especially as we approached Eccleston, including a couple of D of E groups out on what was their first training day of three.
We ended up having lunch, sitting on a convenient felled tree trunk, just off the main footpath on Duke's Drive, and once more Margaret kindly provide me with my desert, the last of her chocolate eggs! Thanks again Margaret.
As you would expect, very few car park spaces were left as we went through the Chester Golf Club car park, and the sound of club hitting the golf ball could clearly be heard, but it paled into insignifance compared to rowing boat coach heard earlier in the day.
Roger and I went our separate ways at Saltney Quay and Roger probably mileage clocked upto 11.5 miles by the time he reached home, ready for a good soothing soak in the bath!
I arived home at 14-50, just in time to watch Liverpool get their revenge over Aston Villa's 7-2 victory earlier in the year.
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