Rojer's blog: Lindrick dale

03 May 2020

Sunday 10th of November

After the rain

Tenth of November 2019

I walked up the canal to the top pound to see what the rain had done up there.
A round trip of about nine miles

Après le déluge
Blue skies

Canal west of Worksop

Muscovy at Wood End

A tad prettier than 'our' muscovy.

Female?

(I like muscovies)

The rail bridge at Doefield Dun Lock:

Panorama of Shireoaks Woodland from Doefield Dun Lock.

(I like panoramas)

Lichen

(I like lichen)

Ivy fruit is great food for birds, especially blackbirds, when other sources have gone.

(I like ivy)

Ivy also provides a sunbathing nest for larger animals.

(I like cats)

Fungus - is it dead man's fingers?

(I like fungi)

Bramble flowers

(I like out of season flowers)

Many spotted ladybird

(I like insects)

I think that I shall never see

A poem lovely as a tree.

Feeder Lock on the Chesterfield Canal

Isn't that beautiful?

Robin at Turnerwood

(Who doesn't like robins?)

Sunlight with midges

So difficult to photograph

Never before seen the overflow so violent

Pudding Dyke leaves the canal

I have walked across here dryshod in the Summer

This is Pudding Dyke entering the canal

Normally it flows in below the level of the canal's water.

After leaving the canal, Pudding Dyke goes on to feed lakes at Lindrick Dale and join Anston Brook to form the Ryton which flows through Worksop and on to join the Idle, the Trent and ultimately the Humber estuary into the North Sea.

Woody nightshade flaunts its toxic berries in the undergrowth.

The top pound is a must see on the Chesterfield Canal

Autumn might be my favourite season.

Trees across the canal just above Cinderhill.

(I like trees - especially in Autumn)

A tree in the canalside hedgerow picked out by the sun

A kingfisher glimpsed momentarily across the canal
(I love kingfishers)

Panorama of a newly ploughed field at four o' the afternoon.
(I like panoramas)

Pondorama
(I really like panoramas)

And so home.

12 June 2011

En härlig morgon.

Looks great out.

Walkies!

Well, what started out so promising has turned into a dull day: rain! I know the farmers, and gardeners, want it but I don't.

Walked up the canal to Cinderhill lock (Duke's bridge) and then followed the footpath to Brancliffe. Last time, coming the other way, I hadn't been able to find the footpath through the wood above the Ryton and the start of Brancliffe feeder. Going the other way it's signposted. Turns out I'd been literally within feet of it! There's a quarry at the bottom of Lindrick dale, last time I went in and turned left, If I'd turned right I'd have found it!
The slideshow above is the walk: Duke's Bridge; Brancliffe; Feeder source; Lindrick Dale; Thorpe Top Bridge and back down to Duke's Bridge. Wherever you go you're sure to find an underpant tree.

Anyhow. There was a fishing match above Morse lock, Dinnington Sportsman pub. Some anglers are bloody selfish: they leave rods over the towpath and, coming back, the brollies were enormous and blocking the way.


The angling match going and coming back



There appears to be a lack of water above Feeder lock as Quarry, Turnerwoood top and Feeder's washes were dry. Don't think it was boats using it as I didn't see any between Shireoaks Middle and Thorpe Top Treble."


The swan above Turnerwood double has given up on her eggs.

Didn't see the Mandarin anywhere although his "adopted" family were on Feeder's wash. see pics above re low water.

Looked for Nb Wychwood in Shireoaks Marina: no sign.

The other boat I saw yesterday, Sloe Mo Shun was at Shireoaks Middle on the way up and just leaving Python's pitch as I came back - he's from Hebden Bridge and he and his mate, in Nb 42, were going to a bootsale at the welfare club.

I've left uploading pics until I'm sure the camera's dry. Don't want to get any water in its innards.

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