Although measurable rain fell on ten days during the month, quantities were very small and temperatures above average. September therefore ended up as another desperately dry month, the duneland ground water-table being the lowest recorded since the drought of the mid -1990s. However, the often sunny weather brought out lots of late-summer insects, including one...
Driving through Swaledale’s iconic hay meadows alongside the B6270 between Reeth and Keld you get a sense of the meadows great agricultural importance, providing farmers with food for their livestock during the winter months as well as their ecological importance. Upland hay meadows are characterised by a suite of species including Sweet Vernal-grass, Wood Crane’s-bill,...
Thursday 3rd September 2015, Everton Park Nature Garden SJ352920: Everton Park is one of the city’s precious green lungs, but it has been underused in the past. This has changed and a visitor destination – like Barcelona’s Parc Guell is – has emerged like a phoenix from the ashes of housing policy. These waves of...
August was a rather cool and unsettled month, though rainfall amounts were no more than average, contrasting with record deluges in the south. The rain that did fall soon evaporated making little impact on the depleted water-table. The 50th anniversary bash for Ainsdale Sand Dunes National Nature Reserve on 8th fortunately coincided with a sunny...