Walk 7 - Grindleford

5 miles 3pm - 7pm. We travelled much further afield today - almost all the way over to Sheffield. We walked out of Grindleford, along the river Derwent initially and then up in to a NT woodland. It was lovely and cool in the woods. We saw lots of ants and their giant nests and Zooey, having just learnt about wood sorrel at woodland school was picking sorrel all the way for us to eat! We crossed the main Manchester/Sheffield railway line and walked alongside the railway for a way climbing back in to woodland again towards the end. We saw Lime trees, Sweet Chestnut, Maple, Common Alder, Rowan, Willow, Sycamore, Elder, Ash, Cherry, Oak, Hazel, Hawthorn, Beech and Birch, Swifts, magpie, robin, sparrows, ducklings, ducks, rooks, white wagtail, buzzard, chiff caff and house martin. We also saw a stag in the last bit of woodland we walked through! After the walk, at home, we sound ID'd jackdaws, chiff chaffs, blackbird, dunnock and wren (alarm call). We took a photo of a thistle which we found out at home was a specific type called Marsh Thistle.