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Vole with a Burnet Moth caterpillar towards the top of the picture.

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Spider on guard.
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Burnet Moth
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Hover Fly
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Young toad.
Young toad

Grey Heron
Grey Heron

Click to enlargeThis waymarker in the park is one of the mileposts on the National Cycle Network
© John S. Sargent 3rd April 2005.
Click to enlargeThe central lake, dogs at play well away from the swans and ducks.
© John S. Sargent January 1999.
Click to enlargeThe Gey Heron (Ardea cinerea). Often easy to miss and suspicious of human beings. It stands motionless waiting for a fish to happen by.
© John S. Sargent 16th April 2010.
Click to enlargeCanada Geese with their young.
© John S. Sargent 24th May 2010.
Click to enlargeNow .... The central lake with the birdwatchers' hide on the far side.
© John S. Sargent 31st July 2010.
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The same lake viewed from the top of one of the spoil heaps - from slag heap to nature park.
© John S. Sargent 8th September 2002.
Click to enlargeView towards Nine Arches railway viaduct and car park.
© John S. Sargent 1998.
Click to enlargeGatekeeper Butterfly, male. (Pyronia tithonus).
Wingspan: Male: 37 - 43mm, Female: 42 - 48mm. This butterfly is widespread and common throughout England and Wales, and along the south coast of Ireland. Orange and brown, with black eyespot on forewing tip. The two eyespots have two white pupils, not one, as in the Meadow Brown. The Gatekeeper is also smaller and more orange with row of tiny white dots on hind underwings.
© John S. Sargent 31st July 2010.
Click to enlargeView towards the main line with Walton Sports and Social Club and Walton Locks visible behind the train.
© John S. Sargent 8th September 2002.
Click to enlargeWoodyard Cottages and Chevet Terrace viewed from the nature park.
© John S. Sargent 2nd January 2009.
Click to enlargeCentral lake towards Oakenshaw Viaduct.
© John S. Sargent 2nd September 2000.
Click to enlarge The small beck by Shay Lane car park. © John S. Sargent 18th April 2009.
Click to enlargeThe Barnsley Canal in the nature park, it ends just before Oakenshaw Viaduct. This stretch is used by anglers.
© John S. Sargent 13th May 2004.
Click to enlargeGeese and ducks feeding - with the geese doing a bit of squabbling as well. © John S. Sargent 17th February 2006.

Click to enlargeView towards Nine Arches railway viaduct with the trees of Walton Park in the background.
© John S. Sargent 9th May 2005.

Click to enlargeSwans at the nature park.
© John S. Sargent 17th November 2005.

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