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Spotted at Stonelands
This handsome creature was posing rather in a field by the lane to Stonelands. Behind is Bearacleave Wood.
Image: © Derek Harper
Taken: 6 Apr 2008
0.14 miles
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Shaptor Wood
A rare almost level section of the path that crosses the steep wooded hillsides below Shaptor. This area is Pixey Copse. A carpet of bluebells looks likely in a few weeks.
Image: © Derek Harper
Taken: 6 Apr 2008
0.19 miles
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Stonelands Waste
A path that wanders along an ever-changing wooded hillside, managed by the Woodland Trust, for over two kilometres without a junction.
Image: © Derek Harper
Taken: 6 Apr 2008
0.20 miles
4
Bluebells and orchids, Pixey Close
The number of early purple orchids rivals that of bluebells in this part of the woods.
Image: © Derek Harper
Taken: 6 May 2022
0.20 miles
5
Fallen trees, Pixey Close
They have fallen in opposite directions - or is it one tree that has split? The trunk onn the left has blocked the permissive path through Shaptor Woods, requiring a diversion to duck beneath the trunk on the right; not the only such diversion on this walk.
Image: © Derek Harper
Taken: 6 May 2022
0.21 miles
6
White bluebell, Pixey Close
I suppose one must call these rare, since this was the only white bloom I noticed among hundreds of thousands of blue bluebells carpeting these woods during this walk, but if they are around, they are very easy to spot!
Image: © Derek Harper
Taken: 6 May 2022
0.22 miles
7
Shaptor Wood
This is open access land, but it is much easier to stay on the permissive path through the woodland and view it from here. It felt warm, the sun was shining through the thin canopy, and the wood was protecting us from the wind.
Image: © Graham Horn
Taken: 15 Apr 2013
0.23 miles
8
Orchid, Stonelands Waste
The early purple orchid (Orchis mascula) is much in evidence here this spring.
Image: © Derek Harper
Taken: 6 May 2022
0.24 miles
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Orchid, Stonelands Waste
A closer view of a specimen of early purple orchid (Orchis mascula) near the twin spikes shown in
Image
Image: © Derek Harper
Taken: 6 May 2022
0.24 miles
10
Trees across the path, Sunny Copse
See
Image]; here on a steep slope there is no diversion so these fallen trunks must be scrambled over or crawled under.
Image: © Derek Harper
Taken: 6 May 2022
0.24 miles