For a week or two we'd had superb moth conditions. Warm days followed by warm evenings, low wind and just the right amount of cloud! So when the moth night arrived on Friday 9th September we had great expectations! As a public event hosted by the National Wildflower Centre we started slightly earlier than usual to...
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 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...
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...