The Cloud

The Cloud in cheshire. Mile after mile of flat canal paths, with a steep up and down at the end. Verey hazy day so not much to see from the top. Lots of mushrooms coming up in the forests (must remember our brush for next time).

The Cloud elevation

The Cloud route

View from The Cloud

 Near the beginning every tree trunk had a swarm of flies warming up in the early morning sun, sheltering from the brisk breeze in the bark and crevices.

Fly on bark

Noon-fly on bark

Speckled Wood on fern

Birch Polypore

Birch Polypore

Mushroom

Birch Polypore

Woodland track near Timbersbrook

Lyme Park

Another revisit of somewhere we haven't been for a few years. This time around Lyme Park and the surrounding countryside.

Lyme Park Elevation

Lyme Park route

 Nothing much of interest along the early part of the walk (once we'd found it), then we happened across a small collection of caterpillars near Higher Poynton.

Large White Caterpillar

Small White Caterpillar

Large White Caterpillars surrounding a Small White

Closely followed by some cold, slimy carryings-on in the undergrowth...

Mating Large Red Slugs

Spider

Noon-Fly

Lunch on a grassy knoll by a small stream in Lyme Park, surrounded by grasshoppers and "leggy things". This is the only hopper that came close, even then it backed almost completely into the grass. If it didn't move it would be almost impossible to see.

Common Field Grasshopper

Unexpected chicken

The Cage and Red Deer

Red Deer