A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers but borrowed from his children.
John James Audobon
The gallery contains photographs of the nature park taken over a period of ten years and more.
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Vole with a Burnet Moth caterpillar towards the top of the picture.
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Spider on guard.
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5-spot Burnet Moth
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Common Toad
(Bufo Bufo), WCNP.
[click image for more toads elsewhere in Walton]
Grey Heron
(Ardea cinerea)
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 Large Skipper (Ochlodes faunus).
[15 Jun 2011]
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Common Blue (Polyommatus icarus).
[15 Jun 2011]
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 A roe deer (Capreolus capreolus).
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 Cyclist on the track that runs alongside Shay Lane towards Nine Arches. Photographed before the track was resurfaced.
[21 Jul 2011] |
 The same track as the previous picture, photographed nearer to Nine Arches in 1998. A Midland Mainline train is crossing the viaduct.
© John S. Sargent 1998 |
 Another view of Nine Arches and the Shay Lane car park.
A GNER Intercity train is crossing the viaduct.
© John S. Sargent 1998. |
-2011-11-19-s.gif) Cormorants. They excel at fishing; this sometimes results in them being persecuted.
[19 Nov 2011] |
 2000
Goldwing Egg Farm, Shay Lane, viewed from the nature park.
[July 2000]] |
 A wealth of wild flowers.
[18 Aug 2010] |
 The Gey Heron (Ardea cinerea). Often easy to miss and suspicious of human beings. It stands motionless waiting for a fish to happen by. (On the Fishermen's or Anglers' Lake.)
© John S. Sargent 16th April 2010. |
 Canada Geese with their young. Spike Lake.
© John S. Sargent 24th May 2010. |
 In 2010 .... The central wildlife lake, looking towards Oakenshaw Viaduct. A dramatic change to the scene shown in the next picture.
© John S. Sargent 2010. |
 Back in 2002 ....
The same lake viewed from the top of one of the spoil heaps - from slag heap to nature park.
© John S. Sargent 8th September 2002. |
 Another old view, 2000 - Spike Lake and Oakenshaw Viaduct towards the north-west Photographed from the south of the lake on the southern hill.
© John S. Sargent 2nd September 2000. |
-s.jpg) The Spike Monument and Henry Daley Memorial Garden. Click here for more pictures.
[21 Jul 2011] |
 A mute swan having a flap.
[19 Nov 2011] |
 Mallards gathering for titbits on a crisp Christmas Eve. The ubiquitous mallard is the commonest duck and most widespread, so you have a chance of seeing it just about anywhere where there is suitable wetland habitat, even in urban areas (L. Anas platyrhynchos)
[24 Dec 2010] |
 View towards the main line with Walton Sports and Social Club and Walton Locks visible behind the train.
© John S. Sargent 8th September 2002. |
-s.jpg) Woodyard Cottages and Chevet Terrace viewed from the nature park.
© John S. Sargent 2nd January 2009. |
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 The Barnsley Canal in the nature park, it ends just before Oakenshaw Viaduct. This stretch is used by anglers.
© John S. Sargent 13th May 2004. |
 Geese and ducks feeding - with the geese doing a bit of squabbling as well.
© John S. Sargent 17th February 2006. |
-s.jpg) Common Teasel (Dipsacus fullonum).
[21 Jul 2011] |
 Swans at the nature park.
© John S. Sargent 17th November 2005.
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-s.jpg) A bright but cold December day in the park.
Photographed 6th December 2010. |
Drain Beck, from Walton Park, and Oakenshaw Beck, from Crofton, flow into the nature park - an area much disturbed by the sewage works, mining and subsequent landscaping when the park was created. Although the Barnsley Canal stops short of Oakenshaw Viaduct, the water from Oakenshaw Beck continues towards Agbrigg and the River Calder. On the western side of Oakenshaw Lane, i.e. towards Agbrigg, Oakenshaw Beck is joined by Bull Bridge Dike (from Walton Green - 'Greenside'). |
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