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Time for a walk and we head out to give the dogs and ourselves a little exercise. Ann was sorry to have missed the peregrines on my recent walk so she joins me on more or less the same route, hoping for another sighting. Maybe we will see them, maybe not, Either way it's a great local walk on a fine day.
The Park Beck is running low due to the recent dry weather. The farm and the track to Mellbreak can be seen heading off into the distance.
Where the rough stepping stones on the path to Hen Comb cross Mosedale Beck is "Harry's Pool". It's the small triangular pool of deep water, a favourite outing for our old dog Harry and now our current two, Dylan and Dougal.
Capturing a moment in time. The pool was once the mill pond of a water leat for Bargate Farm's water mill. There are thoughts of a new mini-hydro scheme utilising the same drop in height below here, but it is still in the 'thinking' stage. The problems seem to be accessibility, access to the grid and the local fish ecology. If they do generate green power using the water I sincerely hope they don't mess about with the pool itself either. - - - o o o - - - A charcoal burner's hut in the forest (?) as we head on up the track that lead along the Mosedale valley. I think it is more likely to be a children's den, but it is a well built one. Along the track to the high point and the view of Starling Dodd . . . then we turn and retrace out steps slightly. Darling Fell and Low Fell. We'll take a right and head around the back of the woods on the next part of our walk. I saw the peregrines recently flying under the crags on this end of Mellbreak. We kept an eye out today and thought we possible saw one, but it was too high to be confident of a true sighting. That wasn't a charcoal burner's hut but this was a charcoal burning site. The flat area on the right, covered in winter leaves, is an excavated area about five metres in diameter where they would have burnt local wood in an earth-covered mound, smouldered carefully to produce the valuable fuel. Our woodland track takes us down towards Low Park with lovely views of Crummock Water and Grasmoor along the way. " New Born " We were a bit worried as one was active and the other flat out, head down, not moving and further away from its mother. Upon careful investigation the lamb was okay, it stood up from its rather awkward position and slowly re-joined its mum.
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Technical note: Pictures taken with either Ann's Panasonic Lumix TZ60, or my Panasonic Lumix Gx8 Camera. Resized in Photoshop, and built up on a Dreamweaver web builder. This site best viewed with . . . supper for two. Go to Top . . . © RmH . . . Email me here Previous walk - 1st April 2020 - Foraging for Food A previous time up here - 31st August 2017 - Harry's Pool and Crummock Next walk - 5th April 2020 - A Walk to the Beach
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