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...
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...
NWFG Foray Programme 2016(vs2) In association with the British Mycological Society Bring strong footwear. Details about terrain and accessibility of sites can be obtained by contacting the foray leader. Most venues have their own website. Forays are planned so that they can continue into the afternoon. If you intend to so continue please bring...
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...