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...
Hugh Harris: The Big Bug Hunt and Coastal BioBlitz
‘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...
Hugh Harris: Carr Lane Lake, Prescot (SJ460921)
Biodiverse Society Site Visit 19th May 2016: Carr Lane Lake is a modestly sized Local Wildlife Site near Prescot, Knowsley of 1.02 hectares. It is a wetland with a large area of open water which is unusual in Knowsley and it is fished. The site was cited as an LWS in 1995 for a diversity...
