BH6 - Pseudo Trig Traditional Cache
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The Belper Hills series is an 8'ish mile circular walk with 20 caches to find. There are no clues to collect and no specific starting point, even though they are numbered 1-20. Park where its most convenient and just get started. There are watering holes along the way. Plus the usual mud and boggy bits after rain, also two busy roads to cross. Plenty of hills and views on offer.
*** Please be aware that the path can get very wet when it has rained. ***
From here you should have a good view of the Wyver Lane Nature Reserve
Wyver Lane is one of the Derbyshire Wildlife Trust's most important wetland reserves. It is within the Derwent Valley World Heritage Site and is a lovely place to visit, with the surrounding hills of the Peak District, making a great setting for walks.
The reserve has many resident bird species, including Canada geese, tufted duck and little grebe. Throughout the year, many more species visit, from waders such as curlew and common sandpiper passing through in spring, to birds which breed here such as lapwing.
Large numbers of gulls visit the reserve during winter - they are mainly black headed gulls, but you may also see common, herring, lesser and greater black backed gulls. They are joined by wildfowl escaping the icy north. In really cold conditions, numbers of duck species such as wigeon can reach more than 100.
The reserve is one of the few remaining areas of wet grassland in the mid-Derwent Valley and is the only site with large enough areas of undisturbed grassland for wigeon to overwinter. To ensure that the many bird species continue to thrive here there is no access onto the reserve.
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