Photo Blog Week 6 - Wed 18 Dec 2014
route: via Knightslow Wood to Bowstone Gate track
Winter canopy in Knightslow Wood
Looking from Bowstone Gate track across Knightslow Wood and the Hall to The Cage
Panorama across the Park from track to Bowstone Gate entrance
Alderley Edge escarpment in the haze
route: Exit Park at Bowstonegate Farm
Cheshire Plain from road by Bowstone Gate Farm
South track along the ridge to Sponds Hill
The Bow Stones
The Bow Stones are the bases of two saxon? crosses. The 'bow' reference is to the idea that two stones placed like this were used when tensioning and stringing a hunting bow.
When the sun is in the West, Bowstone Gate Farm is often seen shining out white on the hill top from the suburbs of southern Manchester.
route: Re-enter Lyme Park
route: along Boundary Wall South then West
The Moor Herd
The Moor Herd of Red Deer tend to stay apart from the Park Herd. Their behaviour is quite different, they appear aloof and more wild. When food is delivered they will casually migrate across the Moor toward it wheras the Park Herd will charge up and start eating as the tractor is unloaded.
The Moor Herd also seem to stay in a larger distinct herd than the Park Herd.
There is a deer leap allowing interaction but this only extends to a number of stags adventuring across during the rut looking for the girl next door.
I'm lying in long grass with telephoto and the grass is waving in front of camera.
What you lookin' at?
The core of the herd with a nice mix of ages and sexes
Stag House appears on all the maps but this is actually all that's left of it
The Rangers' tractor delivering silage winter feed for the Moor Herd
The Moor Herd all moving casually toward their food delivery.
This distant shot is more typical of a sighting of the Moor Herd.
Open moor across to Bowstone Gate Farm (white buildings on horizon)
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