New

One of the advantages of walking new paths is that they open up new vistas on familiar places. So here is my home of Baildon as viewed from a footpath near the highest point of Hollins Hill.

I started my walk by heading down to the the nature reserve and the river, where I found a nice group of young Mandarin (extra). Then it was a mile or so along the river to Esholt, where I had to vie with the Emmerdale souvenir hunters to secure a cup of coffee from the little Post Office. I seemed to be the only one that had remembered to pack a mask.

From there I took the lane past the old sewage settlement tanks. There is a dispute over this site at the moment (extras) as Yorkshire Water have received permission to put a housing estate here, while local residents are campaigning for a nature reserve. I thought the idea of tying a ribbon for every signature in the online petition was very effective.

Making a long loop through the woods I returned to Esholt and then walked up Old Hollins Hill, with today's main image emerging, and then back through Bradford/Hollins Hall golf courses, down into Tong Park and back up the hill home.

It warmed up at the end, so I saw Speckled Wood, Small Copper and Small White butterflies in Tong Park, having seen only a few Speckled Wood through the rest of the walk.