Today in pictures

[maxthecollie]

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A stroll on the Canal Banks

[Exile on Spencer St]

Originally Posted by davemac

A very wet walk around the back end of the Coppice.

No 5 looks like a tributary of the Amazon!
Of all the changes in Accy since I was a little squirt, the change to the slopes of The Coppice are up there. Hard to imagine we used to slide down the exposed scarp on bits of cardboard and try to set fire to the grass tussocks everywhere else. Other than a few wind blown hawthorns, there was barely a tree to be seen in those long lost days on the western foothills.

[davemac]

Originally Posted by Exile on Spencer St

No 5 looks like a tributary of the Amazon!
Of all the changes in Accy since I was a little squirt, the change to the slopes of The Coppice are up there. Hard to imagine we used to slide down the exposed scarp on bits of cardboard and try to set fire to the grass tussocks everywhere else. Other than a few wind blown hawthorns, there was barely a tree to be seen in those long lost days on the western foothills.

What you can see is an old metal boundary fence, it is still there and runs for some distance along what I am guessing is the boundary between the old Plantation Mill and the Coppice. As for the trees, the Coppice used to be covered in trees but were lost during the industrial revolution, so the recent plantings have attempted to return the Coppice to its previous state, it also stabilised the front of the area that was slipping off the shale base it is sat on. Incidentally the name Coppice is the practice of cutting back trees to the base to produce long branches for use in things like fencing, so as the name suggests an area of dense managed trees.

[Exile on Spencer St]

Originally Posted by davemac

...As for the trees, the Coppice used to be covered in trees but were lost during the industrial revolution...

That must have been a couple of months before we moved to Accy

[davemac]

A walk in the woods, then up an old cart track just on the edge of Bedlam/Green Haworth.

[Exile on Spencer St]

Nos 3 and 5 are beauties. You have a good eye, Davemac.

[gpick24]

Took the dogs up Pendle again today.

1. Daisy
2. Duke trying to steal Daisys stick.
3 & 4. If there`s mud they`ll find it.
5. Meadow Pipit.
6. I think this is a Meadow Pipt as well.
7-9. Peregrine Falcons, always good to see but they were a long way off.
10. The sheep and the fly.

[Restless]

Cyclops tree is watching me

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[davemac]

The flowers that grow where coal was once king,......... Huncoat Colliery

[davemac]

A walk in the woodlands c-l-m resulted in, as you would expect, pictures of trees.

[Margaret Pilkington]

Dave, I see your fungus detector is in fine fettle.
Is that one edible?
If it is, it would fill a breakfast muffin.

[davemac]

Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington

Dave, I see your fungus detector is in fine fettle.
Is that one edible?
If it is, it would fill a breakfast muffin.

Its a bit early in the fungal calendar so wasn't really on the hunt for a fungal experience I just sort of came across it, I have to admit I am not sure what type it is.

[Margaret Pilkington]

Now that really surprises me Dave.
You are my go to encyclopaedia of all things horticultural.

[davemac]

Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington

Now that really surprises me Dave.
You are my go to encyclopaedia of all things horticultural.

Fungi are very numerous and to be specific is a bit difficult without a bit of homework, best guess would be a Polypore, and one that thrives amongst Beech trees, however it is nice to be thought of as an expert even if I am nowhere near.

[Margaret Pilkington]

Yes Dave...in my book you are an expert...and a very nice one at that!