Have you seen Water vole or American Mink in North Merseyside? For a number of years we have been supplying records to the National Water Vole Database and Mapping project. This generally takes place on a yearly basis and the call has just come in for us to supply any new records! If you have...
Hugh Harris: Mine Waste Cronton SJ471891
MINE WASTE LWS, CRONTON. KNOWSLEY. SJ471891 (Sat Nav. WA8 5QN) Sat 11 June 2016. Leader: Dave Earl Weather: 17°C. Mostly cloudy, scattered showers with a warm high of 21° Data from Foreca . . Behind the locked gates of Cronton Colliery you encounter a 43 hectare derelict landscape since the closure of...
Hugh Harris: Haskayne Cutting, West Lancs.
HASKAYNE CUTTING, West Lancs SD 357 089, Explorer 285. Haskayne Cutting lies 3 miles west of Ormskirk on the Lancashire coastal plain. Lancashire Wildlife Trust manages the full 1.7 miles length under licence from United Utilities. It is a disused railway line and provides an important corridor for wildlife. A surprising diversity of habitats...
Dr Phil Smith: Wildlife Notes May 2016
With small amounts of rain on only nine days during the month, May reinforced a statistically significant trend of lower spring rainfall here since 2000. A recent paper in the International Journal of Climatology confirms this trend for the UK as a whole, linking it to atmospheric pressure changes over Greenland brought about by...