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spencer wrote:
Another possible prob is access at a certain time of the year due to closure of paths and part of the site for nightjar nesting protection. Go to the Sheffield Bird Study Group site's events/meets page for details of their annual 'Crepuscular Creep' at Wyming/Ash Cabin, which is an indicator of when some paths reopen (the Creep is fab, I always do it and saw seven nightjars the year before last)
I'll tell you something for nowt mate, whoever runs that part of the moor is a cunt. When the moor was last burnt off it was done during nesting season. I wandered the area for an hour or so and couldn't count on my fingers and toes the amount of nests i saw with full clutches of eggs still present. It was deliberate too as they'd cut fire breaks.

On another note you doing owt Friday? Meant to e-mail you but damn life got in the way. Looking to get out somewhere but undecided yet.

At the risk of offending delicate sensibilities ~~~~look away now~~~~cunt is entirely the right word. Fri: will be working if not raining too much, but could stop and meet you at top of Moss Rd in Totley or Houndkirk carpark at Ringinglow @16-30 if you want a quick look pre 'kosher' at unrecorded settlements, circles, weird/ritual earthworks, unique rock art or whatever...was going to get them officially verified today but he was snowed in in Buxton while I was working in sunshine in Sheff. Hi ho, will have to wait another fortnight now..still, if the stuffs been unrecognised for 3500 years whats fourteen days? Eighteen or more sites to visit - going to take us at least two days to get them all surveyed GPSd and sussed from the look of things. If weather like Stanton and work a nono I don't mind donning the gear and wandering elsewhere. Does fieldwalking atop Houndkirk Hill appeal? There are unrecorded/mapped skyline cairns visible from A621 on Totley Rise. I wanted to find Strawberry Lea but you've just been there, so never mind. Sorry Geoff, only read your post this eve, email me if owt appeals : )