New Mills U3A birds and botany

BIRDS AND BOTANY

Coordinator: Jay Turner

Meetings: Once or twice a month on various days to minimise recurrent clashes with members' other commitments.

We usually meet at the Co-op car park, Church Road, New Mills at 10:00 am. The number on walks is limited only by having enough seats in cars (but we’ve never yet left anyone behind). Attendance varies with members’ diaries, inclinations and the weather (we are sensible people, not masochists).

Come and join us. There's no limit to the number on the mailing list.
Willing drivers of 4-door cars are specially welcome!

Next walk tba


PHOTOS TAKEN BY PAT COOPER - September 2010 (click on images to enlarge)
Looking at one of the Lathkill specialities, a Mullein, either Great or Dark - advanced stuff, that's why we've got our books out.		Anni reading the display board about the other Lathkill special and the jewel in the crown, Jacob's Ladder (see the Miller's Dale pictures). Unfortunately they were largely over by late August, and we only saw two in flower.
Scenic shots up into the quarry in the valley side.		That old tramp getting high on the last of the Meadowsweet.
Knapweed	Harebells	The jumble of rocks is the bed of the river when there is a river. Very seasonal - it comes out of a cave in the upper valley, but rarely in the summer.
	Two photographs taken at One Ash Grange farm, one of three genuine medieval monastic granges above the valley on the south side. One Ash (to distinguish it from Monyash of course) belonged to the the Cistercians of Roche Abbey in Yorkshire. No visible medieval remains, date stone of 1699 on one outbuilding. Features of interest include an ice house and a range of stone pigsties now housing dolls. The Christmas Crib statuary in the icehouse is not medieval - last few years in fact.
Ice cream stop at the end of the walk

Martin Mere trip

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Carsington Water

Millers Dale walk 2010
Jacobs Ladder (blue and white varieties)	some old tramp entirely surrounded by Hogweed	Knapweed	Dyers' Greenweed


photographs taken by Pat C (click on images to enlarge)
Hawkweed	more Hawkweed	Bloody Cranesbill	Common Valerian
We travel to a chosen destination, then walk at an appropriate pace, not to cover miles but to enjoy looking at seasonally available wildlife: not only birds and plants, but butterflies, mammals and whatever else we find.
Goatsbeard seed head	Bee Orchid	Common Spotted Orchid	come and join us
bring a packed lunch and a contribution to drivers’ fuel costs	Hogweed	binoculars recommended	some kind of rose