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Bretherton Moss

24/7/2017

 
Venue: Bretherton Moor
Date: Monday 24th July 2017
Weather: Fine Sunny Warm
Leader: Graham Thomas
Party Number: 20
Distance and Time: 3.5 miles 2.5 hours
 
The Blue Anchor Pub at Bretherton was the meeting for 20 people On a beautiful Summer's evening. We set off and walked down through the Village to the left on South Road. We soon found a path into a field and crossed to a Lane on an old part of Croston. We continued to the left down Sarah Lane to a junction were we turned left onto Back Lane. We continued to Bretherton Road and turned right then crossed into Bretherton Pools and Followed the River Lostock then left along Wymott Brook. As we were on an embankment we could see across the rough scrub area of Bretherton Pools. A path with stile on right took us out of the Pools and along the overgrown Wymott Brook to a Footbridge. We continued along an embankment then a path to left that took us around several fields and back to the pub.
There were lots of Yellow Buntings around plus Swallows, Swifts, and Martins. We watched a family of Whitethroats flitting in the tops of some Cow Parsley.
Some of the Group retired to The Lord Nelson in Croston and sat outside after a beautiful summer’s evening walk.
Mallard
Pheasant h
Moorhen juv
Lesser Black Backed Gull
Black Headed Gull
Wood Pigeon
Collared Dove
Magpie
Carrion Crow
Jackdaw h
House Martin
Swallow
Swift
Blue Tit
Long T Tit
Coal Tit h
Willow Warbler
Whitethoat
 
Wren h
Starling
Blackbird
Song Thrush h
Robin
Dunnock
House Sparrow
Chaffinch
Bulfinch m
Goldfinch
Linnet
Reed Bunting
Yellow Bunting
 
Green Veined White
Red Admiral
 
Brown Hare
Clic 1.       Hogweed
2.       Rosebay
3.       Great plantain
4.       Dandelion
5.       Garlic mustard
6.       Rib plantain
7.       Common nettle
8.       Creeping buttercup
9.       White dead nettle
10.   Groundsol
11.   Creeping thistle
12.   White clover
13.   Red clover
14.   Hedge bindweed
15.   Bramble
16.   Daisy
17.   Great willowherb
18.   Upright hedge parsley
19.   Tufted vetch
20.   Hedge woundwort
21.   Meadow buttercup
22.   Honeysuckle
23.   Hemlock water dropwort
24.   Red campion
25.   Canadian goldenrod
26.   Hemp agrimony
27.   Meadow vetchling
28.   Small sowthistle
29.   Meadowsweet
30.   Silverweed
31.   Fleabane
32.   Cleavers
33.   Phragmites
34.   Yarrow
35.   Pineappleweed
36.   Common ragwort
37.   Bittersweet
38.   Mugwort
39.   Lesser bindweed
40.   Sneezewort
41.   Red bartsia

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