Tuesday 28th June 2016. Led by James Hill, University of Liverpool. What are they? How do I identify them? Why should I care? My first encounter with lichens was on old walls and gravestones in a local church yard. These unusual organisms consist of a symbiotic association between a fungus and an alga, with...
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...
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...
‘Every kid has a bug period … I never grew out of mine’ E.O. Wilson zoologist SPEKE-GARSTON COASTAL RESERVE, 13-14 May 2016. SJ450820 to SJ403832 The saltmarshes, sand and mud-flats along the northern fringes of the Mersey estuary form a Local Wildlife Site of 1727 hectares and possess a strange beauty all of its own...