Sutton Park
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Went back to Blackroot Pool in Sutton Park - overshot the mark and walked 2.6 miles in thick mud. Haven't quite recovered yet !
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I'm sure all my friends here on Flickr will know about Mud. Not easy to walk in but I loved the autumn colours here.
And if you fancy a laugh, do listen. I know - showing my age here 😃 !
Flanders and Swan - the Hippopotamus Song
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This is the day Marnie and I went to Blackroot Pool and walked all the way round, mostly in woodland. The light was beautiful. Actually we weren't quite sure where we were a lot of the time, but it was a lovely experience !
Title taken from the book "Travels with Charley" by John Steinbeck, which I'd recommend to anyone. A great read !
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A happy day, as I and my sons and grandchildren all got together near this beautiful lake for lunch and then had a long walk, as much as the children could manage ! This is Blackroot Pool, in Sutton Park, a National Nature Reserve in Sutton Coldfield, England. It's only a 15 minute drive from home, depending on the traffic on the way there. I shall go back soon when I'm not quite so busy at home !
Sutton Park is huge and it's easy to get lost there, as described in my last upload -- but there's a circular walk all around this lake which is a blessing ! Thankfully we only got lost in its beauty.
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Not literally! This is Blackroot Pool at Hartopp Gate, Sutton Park. All seven lakes in Sutton Park are called 'pools' as they were man-made in the Middle Ages to stock fish to help feed the local population. My last upload was taken in the woodland surrounding here.
Done in Topaz Studio with a texture of my own applied to add a touch of drama !
Knockin' on Heaven's Door by Bob Dylan
Hope you like my picture and the music I've chosen to go with it... one of my favourites. So long ago now... but still beautiful.
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House Finch.
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Yellow-rumped Warbler.
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Cardinal female and tiny flowers.
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Sparrow and white Flowers.
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Looking back on the first part of our walk around Blackroot Pool ... later on it gets slightly harder and a bit more wild - I just love the walk here, with the dappled sunlight among the large trees.
This is the Boathouse Restaurant, Blackroot Pool, Sutton Park. A beautiful day, and a lovely display of flowers outside. Trev, Zak and I walked all around the pool - but didn't visit the restaurant - unfortunately!
Water lilies growing at the corner of beautiful Blackroot Pool, a lake in Sutton Park, about 2 miles from home.
As I drove to Sutton Park the sky illuminated above me. Gorgeous pinks and yellows, a proper wintery sunrise. The traffic crawled, cautious drivers tentatively navigating the icy roads. I missed the show, internalising the dear Rach's phrase, 'eye over lens'.
By the time I'd navigated the thick icy layer covering the already worn roads of Sutton Park, I'd missed the colour. The car park was empty. My anxiety was high wandering if I could get back out the park with all the inclement conditions.
Light was catching on the tallest frozen branches. I was cold and already feeling low, beating myself up for getting up too late and lamenting the encroaching cloud. I wandered around and every frame I took seemed so rubbish. Looking at other people's Instagram stories did not help. After an hour I gave up, got a coffee and went home. I almost deleted the lot. Then, the other night had a little look and low and behold, I rather enjoyed this image...
Sometimes all things need is a little room to breathe.
Composite of two shots. The star trails is a composite of over 100 sequential shots. The lake is Blackroot Pool in Sutton Park, Sutton Coldfield.
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Just had to stop and take a picture here... the light was so lovely, the scene so tranquil. This is on the borders of Blackroot Pool, Sutton Park. It was really a good afternoon when Trev, Zak and I had a good walk all around the pool... well, it's more a lake really. I don't know why it's called a 'pool'!
Sutton Park the largest Urban Park in the United Kingdom and a mix of heathland & marshes, seven lakes and extensive ancient woodlands. In Sutton Coldfield, Birmingham, West Midlands.
There are some unassuming prehistoric burnt mounds, and an ancient well. The park contains a preserved section of the Icknield Street, a Roman road; the noticeably cambered road enters the Park near the Royal Oak Gate and exits towards the aptly named Streetly, the "meadow by the paved street"; it is still possible to walk the road. In 1909, two Roman coins were discovered in the park. The Queen's Coppice, planted in 1953, now covers the site of an ancient tumulus, from which a stone 'coffin' was dug out by antiquarians in 1808. Near Blackroot Pool are the earthworks of an ancient encampment, the origin of this is not known - possibly it was a hunting lodge.
The park was established as a Royal Forest by the Anglo-Saxon kings of Mercia, from their seat at Tamworth at around the 9th century. By the early 12th century, it was in use as a Norman medieval deer park. The land was given to the people of Sutton Coldfield by King Henry VIII in 1528 after Bishop John Vesey, a friend of the King, asked for it as a present to the people of Sutton Coldfield. The charcoal burning that took place in the Park is thought to have given Sutton Coldfield the second part of its name.
In 1997, English Nature designated most of Sutton Park a National Nature Reserve and it features on English Heritage's list of recognised historic parks and gardens. In July 2005, a 20-year 'Keepers of Time' scheme was announced, which will eliminate alien species from ancient woodlands and restore native varieties like oak, ash and beech.
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Veronicastrum virginicum in my native wildflower garden yesterday. Also called black root. Webster Groves, Missouri.
Late evening light highlights these lilies on the surface of Blackroot Pool in Sutton Park Nature Reserve
Kurzurlaub im Zugspitzland
noch einmal: die Buckelwiesen
Die Buckelwiesen sind eine geomorphologische Besonderheit des alpinen Raumes, bevorzugt in der Region um Mittenwald, Krün und Klais.
Die grasbewachsenen Bodenwellen entstanden am Ende der Würmeiszeit, als der vordringende Isargletscher den Schotter der Moränen zu Drumlins, langgezogenen Bodenwellen, zusammenschob. Frost- und Verkarstungsprozesse modellierten durch häufigen Wechsel von Auftauen und Gefrieren und dem zwischen den Wölbungen netzartig fließenden Schmelzwasser die Formationen weiter aus (Jahreszeiten-Solifluktion).
Auf den Magerrasen mit nährstoffarmen, sauren Böden wachsen über 200 Pflanzenarten, darunter Stängelloser Enzian, Rotes Kohlröschen, Habichtskraut, Berg-Hahnenfuß, Mehlprimeln, Weiße Silberwurz und Gelbe Schwarzwurzel.
Short holiday in Zugspitzland
again: The "Buckelwiesen"
The hummock meadows are a geomorphological peculiarity of the Alpine area, preferably in the region around Mittenwald, Krün and Klais.
The grassy bumps were formed at the end of the Würm Ice Age, when the advancing Isar glacier pushed the gravel of the moraines together to form drumlins, elongated bumps. Frost and karstification processes further modelled the formations through frequent alternations of thawing and freezing and the meltwater flowing between the bulges like a net (seasonal solifluction).
More than 200 plant species grow on the rough grasslands with nutrient-poor, acidic soils, among them stemless gentian, red cabbageherb, hawkweed, mountain buttercups, mealy primroses, white silverroot and yellow blackroot.
Class 66 locomotive No. 66710 approaches the overbridge at Black Root on the northern edge of Sutton Park with 4L17, the 15:04 Birch Coppice to Tilbury working on Saturday 7th August 2021.
When I arrived here some thirty minutes earlier I was greeted by the sight of a murder of crows fluttering around the bridge parapet. I say crows, but I am not 100% sure that that's what they were. On the other hand I am reasonably certain that the black birds I saw were members of the Corvus genus. Maybe one day I will learn to distinguish between crows, ravens and rooks.
This is Plants Brook. It's a lovely walk along the banks, and I took this from a bridge in Newhall Valley Country Park. It flows all the way to Sutton Park, ending up by feeding the water in Blackroot Pool.
The course of this little river has changed very little since its first known history in the 13th Century. When Sutton Coldfield was a separate district from part of Birmingham, it provided a major source of water for the residents. Landowners were, however, very restrictive in letting others use the stream!
The water is still relatively unpolluted and well aerated. The soft acid waters support various species such as crayfish, nymphs, stoneflies, mayflies and fresh water shrimps. Minnows are also found to be living in the stretch of water between Blackroot Pool and Town Gate.
Sutton Park the largest Urban Park in the United Kingdom and a mix of heathland & marshes, seven lakes, extensive ancient woodlands. In Sutton Coldfield, Birmingham, West Midlands.
Peat-cutting, near Rowton's Well during World War II, recovered flint arrowheads at the base of the peat. There are some unassuming prehistoric burnt mounds, and an ancient well. The park contains a preserved section of the Icknield Street, a Roman road; the noticeably cambered road enters the Park near the Royal Oak Gate and exits towards the aptly named Streetly, the "meadow by the paved street"; it is still possible to walk the road. In 1909, two Roman coins were discovered in the park. The Queen's Coppice, planted in 1953, now covers the site of an ancient tumulus, from which a stone 'coffin' was dug out by antiquarians in 1808. Near Blackroot Pool are the earthworks of an ancient encampment, the origin of this is not known - possibly it was a hunting lodge.
The park was established as a Royal Forest by the Anglo Saxon kings of Mercia, from their seat at Tamworth at around the 9th century. By the early 12th century, it was in use as a Norman medieval deer park. The land was given to the people of Sutton Coldfield by King Henry VIII in 1528 after Bishop John Vesey, a friend of the King, asked for it as a present to the people of Sutton Coldfield. The charcoal burning that took place in the Park is thought to have given Sutton Coldfield the second part of its name.
In 1997, English Nature designated most of Sutton Park a National Nature Reserve and it features on English Heritage's list of recognised historic parks and gardens. In July 2005, a 20-year 'Keepers of Time' scheme was announced, which will eliminate alien species from ancient woodlands and restore native varieties like oak, ash and beech.
The roads have reverted to their previous 'heavily restricted' status. There is still considerable car traffic into and out of the park, mainly of families with children, dog walkers, kite/model aeroplane fliers and other recreational use. However, cross-park 'through traffic' is now completely blocked by sturdy gates across the main link roads, similar to the existing gates at all road entrances and exits, that open and close with dusk and dawn. This measure has significantly reduced the use of the park as a rush-hour short-cut (notably between Boldmere and Streetly). The benefit of traffic restriction is improvement in the enjoyability of the park; with cleaner air, safer roads for walkers and cyclists, and much reduced visual and noise pollution, plus reduced wear and tear on the poorly maintained, decaying road surfaces.
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Pathway that runs along the side of the railway in Sutton Park, between Blackroot and Bracebridge Pools.
Image taken using an infrared converted Fuji Finepix S5700.
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Sutton Park the largest Urban Park in the United Kingdom and a mix of heathland & marshes, seven lakes and extensive ancient woodlands. In Sutton Coldfield, Birmingham, West Midlands.
There are some unassuming prehistoric burnt mounds, and an ancient well. The park contains a preserved section of the Icknield Street, a Roman road; the noticeably cambered road enters the Park near the Royal Oak Gate and exits towards the aptly named Streetly, the "meadow by the paved street"; it is still possible to walk the road. In 1909, two Roman coins were discovered in the park. The Queen's Coppice, planted in 1953, now covers the site of an ancient tumulus, from which a stone 'coffin' was dug out by antiquarians in 1808. Near Blackroot Pool are the earthworks of an ancient encampment, the origin of this is not known - possibly it was a hunting lodge.
The park was established as a Royal Forest by the Anglo-Saxon kings of Mercia, from their seat at Tamworth at around the 9th century. By the early 12th century, it was in use as a Norman medieval deer park. The land was given to the people of Sutton Coldfield by King Henry VIII in 1528 after Bishop John Vesey, a friend of the King, asked for it as a present to the people of Sutton Coldfield. The charcoal burning that took place in the Park is thought to have given Sutton Coldfield the second part of its name.
In 1997, English Nature designated most of Sutton Park a National Nature Reserve and it features on English Heritage's list of recognised historic parks and gardens. In July 2005, a 20-year 'Keepers of Time' scheme was announced, which will eliminate alien species from ancient woodlands and restore native varieties like oak, ash and beech.
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Sutton Park the largest Urban Park in the United Kingdom and a mix of heathland & marshes, seven lakes and extensive ancient woodlands. In Sutton Coldfield, Birmingham, West Midlands.
There are some unassuming prehistoric burnt mounds, and an ancient well. The park contains a preserved section of the Icknield Street, a Roman road; the noticeably cambered road enters the Park near the Royal Oak Gate and exits towards the aptly named Streetly, the "meadow by the paved street"; it is still possible to walk the road. In 1909, two Roman coins were discovered in the park. The Queen's Coppice, planted in 1953, now covers the site of an ancient tumulus, from which a stone 'coffin' was dug out by antiquarians in 1808. Near Blackroot Pool are the earthworks of an ancient encampment, the origin of this is not known - possibly it was a hunting lodge.
The park was established as a Royal Forest by the Anglo-Saxon kings of Mercia, from their seat at Tamworth at around the 9th century. By the early 12th century, it was in use as a Norman medieval deer park. The land was given to the people of Sutton Coldfield by King Henry VIII in 1528 after Bishop John Vesey, a friend of the King, asked for it as a present to the people of Sutton Coldfield. The charcoal burning that took place in the Park is thought to have given Sutton Coldfield the second part of its name.
In 1997, English Nature designated most of Sutton Park a National Nature Reserve and it features on English Heritage's list of recognised historic parks and gardens. In July 2005, a 20-year 'Keepers of Time' scheme was announced, which will eliminate alien species from ancient woodlands and restore native varieties like oak, ash and beech.
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