Every year we undertake a public bat walk at Court Hey Park. Promoted by the Knowsley Ranger Service (Karen Brady) and kindly hosted by the National Wildflower Centre. I wear both my Merseyside BioBank and Merseyside & West Lancashire Bat Group hats! The night kicked off with the traditional quiz. This years having some mean...
New guide to Local Wildlife Sites launched
New guide calls on landowners, developers and volunteers to protect vanishing wildlife havens “Without Local Wildlife Sites we’d have virtually no wildlife” The Wildlife Trusts have published a new guide which highlights the vital importance of Local Wildlife Sites across the UK. Crucial but poorly understood and under-valued, these places are havens for some of...
Dr Phil Smith: Wildlife Notes August 2016
A rather unremarkable month for weather, August had average rainfall and a couple of short warm spells but was largely characterised by cool windy conditions. My frequent visits to the dunes revealed a surprising lack of large insects, especially dragonflies and butterflies. Thus, after a gale the previous day, I called in at our premier...
Botanical interest of Crosby Coastal Park, Sefton Coast, Merseyside
Philip H. Smith, August 2016 Introduction Together with the adjacent Seaforth Docks complex (now Liverpool Free Port), Crosby Coastal Park was reclaimed from the Mersey Estuary in the late 1960s. The section studied here extends south from Crosby Baths to the Freeport fence (Fig. 1). It has an elongated triangular shape about 1.6km long with...