Tuesday February 4th
Trentabank and Shutlingsloe Note the Curlew notice! It's great to have the choice of familiar walks so that we can adapt to the weather forecast (or choose our café...) and today there was a likelihood of rain in the early afternoon. We'd been to Chinley and Shining Tor quite frequently and Shutlingsloe was somewhere that we'd not been for quite some time. That fitted the bill, despite the lack of a reliably open coffee stop. Our ascent was punctuated by stops to talk with a couple of well-insulated babies- one a three-month-old being entertained by a dancing fruit video on a mobile phone, the other just enjoying the day out. Everyone enjoying a chat We stopped to look at the signs for the Peak District Curlew Recovery Project and were very concerned that the curlew population had declined by 80% since 2000 and chicks rarely survive because they are "unruly wanderers". Apart from falling victim to foxes, badgers, ravens and crows, they're also killed by dogs...