Duxbury Ramblers: hard fern

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Saturday, December 07, 2013

Tuesday 26 November

Cool morning, our walk took us through Dry Bones to Duxbury then the trek home

Hard Fern - Blechnum spicant - we have only found it in two places in the valley up to now, this is the biggest patch

River Yarrow

Plenty of these small bridges along the Yarrow

A bit of colour with this bridge

This one spans the Yarrow so is more substantial - Bing, Billy & Toots are way ahead of us - Meg, who knows where she is, she does her own thing following her nose :)

From the Stile into Duxbury Woods, notice the three pathfinders

The Big Beech Roots at the side of the path

Take Care

Tuesday, August 28, 2012

Saturday 25 August

Damp again

We found lots of this along the river bank - never seen so much a good patch.

Hard Fern - Blechnum spicant

Take Care

Tuesday, March 13, 2012

Wednesday 7 March part 5

And now the plants

Bluebells - Hyacinthoides non-scripta - the only one in flower at the moment in Spring Wood

Fringe Cups - Tellima grandiflora - no sign of any buds

Hard Fern - Blechnum spicant - only this one plant in the area, we keep looking for others.

Hard Fern - Blechnum spicant

Lesser Celandine - Ficaria verna lots out now

Russian Comfrey - Symphytum x uplandicum

Yarrow - Achillea millefolium

Take Care

Wednesday, May 11, 2011

Friday 6 May

Rain Showers this morning.

Coot Nest

Enteridium Lycoperdon

Goats Beard - Tragopogon pratensis

Caterpillar on Sycamore

Hard Fern - Blechnum spicant

Large Bittercress - Cardamine amara

Meadow Foxtail - Alopecurus pratensis

Red Campion - Silene dioica

Rhododendron - Rhododendron ponticum

Toad

Wood Avens - Geum urbanum

Yellow Pimpernel - Lysimachia nemorum

Take Care.

Sunday, October 31, 2010

Had a day at Moses Gate Country Park/Crompton Lodges and Nob End along the Manchester, Bolton & Bury Canal. The Canal has lengths that are not in water plus a lot of the Bolton part have been filled in. There has been some work done on the Manchester & Bury side - I hope they get round to the Nob End locks as they would be a sight worth seeing.

Nob End is also a Site of Special Scientific Interest and a Local Nature Reserve. The contamination of the land from the old chemical works has resulted in an alkaline soil which supports a variety of plants, many types of orchid, amongst these are Fragrant orchid - Gymnadenia conopsea, the Northern marsh orchid - Dactylorhiza purpurella, the Early marsh orchid - Dactylorhiza incarnata and other species.

We could not make out what this was our best guess was algae.

Broad-leaved Pond weed - Potamogenton natans

Carline Thistle - Carlina vulgaris

Common Polypody - Polypodium vulgare

Confused Michaelmas Daisy - Aster novi-belgii

Coot

Lots of Canada Geese

All seemed too friendly

The lodges were full of bird life.

They have plenty of swans and a Tern Raft.

These lodges were part of a paper mill which dated back to 1674 it ceased that in 1883 and reopened as Farnworth Bleachery in 1894 this finally closed in the 1930s, there is nothing left of it apart from Rock Hall which was restored in 1982.

Fool's Parsley - Aethusa cynapium

Fool's Watercress - Apium nodiflorum

Hard Fern - Blechnum spicant

Hedge Mustard - Sisymbrium officinale

Lesser Swine-cress - Coronopus didymus

Walking along the canal

A sculpture made from CDs

The road to Canal Wood.

This was the entrance to the lock - the wooden gates are long gone, it is a three lock staircase. It was used to lift the barges up to the next part of the canal or down. One day we may see them restored and working again.