Updates:

See what I’ve been up to in the Porter Brook!

14^th May 2005 *Upload* Catching up with some of the new stuff.

New Pages Dipper

Fixings There have been complaints that some of the pictures are too big to fit on some of your screens, so I’ve resized the bird pictures. The others will follow. Please e-mail me your comments on how this looks.
I’ve put some backgrounds on the bird pages. Hope this isn’t (a) too slow loading (b) too difficult to read. Let me know…

The Birds Index should now load faster – I’ve reduced the quality of the thumbnails so it looks not so good but should not take ten minutes to load.

12^th May 2005 I followed the Porter from Staples Car Park to the Leadmill, picking it up along St. Mary’s Way, under Matilda Street and round the back of the BBC building where it disappears under the Sheffield Archive. This was just an explore – no camera today.

11^th May 2005 Vicki was at the hospital so Eleanor and I went hunting for dippers with better results. The Wood Anemones are all gone but the wild garlic is in flower. The Friends of the Porter Brook with the Rangers and Yorkshire Water have been clearing wood out of the brook in Endcliffe Park and the stepping stones have been set in place again.

8^th May 2005 Vicki, Eleanor and I walked to Forge Dam (where people were fishing) for Bacon Sandwiches. On the way we ere surprised by a heron fishing in The Holmes Wheel Pond in Endcliffe Park. The elusive Dipper was again sighted, and some more in-focus but dark and far-away pictures were gleaned.

1^st May 2005 Welcome to the new Updates Section. This is for return visitors to the site, to let you know what (if anything) has changed on my Porter Brook Explorations. You may even get handy links to the new stuff, if there’s not too much of it.

New Pictures George Woofindin Almshouses
“Mi Amigo” Memorial
Queen Victoria Monument
Canada Goose – close-up
Great Tit – Better but not great
Places to drink tea and get ice-cream
Play areas for children

New Pages The Updates Section!

Loading from just homepages.nildram.co.uk/~leebase (Thanks, Neill)

Fixings The links for the New Maps, to Ordnance Survey, should work now.

Exploits Yesterday Vicki, Eleanor and I tracked the Porter Brook downstream to just before Waitrose, before visiting the Friends of the Porter Valley on their Conservation Week Stall in town. We picked up their geological and historical survey along with some of their ecology material. It was rainy, so no new pics.
On the way to town we stopped off at the Heritage Museum and met a lady called Margaret Oversby, who knew a great deal about Sheffield History and showed us some maps, which we may be able to get copies of at the Sheffield Archive.
Vicki got a book about medics who had died and been buried in the Sheffield Cemetery.

A few days ago I went birding and found a dipper, just above Shepherd Wheel. No good pictures yet, but I’ll keep trying.