SiG
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Yes they are.
Park in Dunsop Bridge - there's a village car park, and another car park behind the Post Office. The track is the metalled road (you can't drive on it though) beside the Post Office. Look out for the Spotted Flycatchers nesting on the back of the Post Office, and Dippers on the Dunsop River here.
Follow the track for a total of 2.5 miles. The telegraph poles are numbered: the birds are between 67 and 68. Before you get there, however, as well as seeing Grey Wags in the river, Ring Ouzel on the moors and possible Goshawks overhead you eventually come to some artificial weirs and a bridge. When you cross the bridge you'll see that two of the footpath routes have been blocked "For Public Safety" - i.e. to stop the owls from eating your children. You therefore have to take the track that goes up the left hand side side of the right hand river, if you see what I mean. It does go up. And up, and up. And just when your legs have turned to marshmallows it goes gently down a little, through a gate and the owls are visible across the valley below eye level between posts 67 and 68.
If you're young and / or healthy it's a gentle stroll. If you're a forty a day ten pints a night person in your fifth decade or beyond you might need a breather.
Park in Dunsop Bridge - there's a village car park, and another car park behind the Post Office. The track is the metalled road (you can't drive on it though) beside the Post Office. Look out for the Spotted Flycatchers nesting on the back of the Post Office, and Dippers on the Dunsop River here.
Follow the track for a total of 2.5 miles. The telegraph poles are numbered: the birds are between 67 and 68. Before you get there, however, as well as seeing Grey Wags in the river, Ring Ouzel on the moors and possible Goshawks overhead you eventually come to some artificial weirs and a bridge. When you cross the bridge you'll see that two of the footpath routes have been blocked "For Public Safety" - i.e. to stop the owls from eating your children. You therefore have to take the track that goes up the left hand side side of the right hand river, if you see what I mean. It does go up. And up, and up. And just when your legs have turned to marshmallows it goes gently down a little, through a gate and the owls are visible across the valley below eye level between posts 67 and 68.
If you're young and / or healthy it's a gentle stroll. If you're a forty a day ten pints a night person in your fifth decade or beyond you might need a breather.
