A walk from Endon to Greenway Bank Country Park and back.

On a quite cold day (the ground and surface waters are still frozen in places) I walked from home to Greenway Bank Country Park via Marshes Hill (Brown Edge) and back along the Caldon Canal feeder from Knypersley Reservoir to Baddeley Green.

Here are photos and bird list (pdf) from the pools taken during the walk. bird list pdf

Tinster Wood (between Endon and Brown Edge).

  

Polytrichum sp. moss in Tinster Wood. 

 

 View from Marshes Hill, Brown Edge 

Mossy dry-stone-wall alongside road below Marshes Hill. 

Bryum capillare (with bright green capsules), Tortula muralis (with smaller elongated capsules on wall top) and Grimmia pulvinata (greyish round cushions) amongst other bryophytes on dry-stone-wall. 

As above. 

Foliose (probably a Parmelia sp.) lichen on dry-stone-wall. 

Cup lichen (Cladonia sp.) with Tortula muralis.

Bright green/yellow crustose lichen amidst Grimmia pulvinata and Tortula muralis. 

View of moss-clad wall. 

The conservation pool Greenway Bank Country Park. 

Unfortunate end for what seems to be a Tawny Owl - it's wing tips were caught in fishing line!

Detergent foam on Head of the Trent not far from Knypersley Res.

View of part of the Head of the Trent where it flows from Knypersley Reservoir (nr.Ball Green).

Little Egret in field NW of Norton Green. 

Accumulation of plastic detritus on upper trent where it passes under the Caldon Canal near Heakley Hall Farm (near Baddeley Green)