The Friends of Marton Mere arrange regular walks around the Mere and adjacent Lawson Wetland to introduce people to the habitats, explain the history of the site, the plants and animals likely to be encountered and most importantly, to try
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December seems to have continued just where November left off with a seemingly endless conveyor-belt of low pressure systems barrelling in from the North Atlantic. Some of the storms have been named and at the time of writing we are
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Sea watching in late Autumn / Winter can be challenging with the best weather conditions for bringing in and observing good birds also being the worst conditions for standing still outside with not much cover / protection. October and November
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The whole point of this blog is to try and report on my interactions with, observations of and comments on all things nature related. The seven Isle of Man 100 Mile hike blogs were more of a daily diary of
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You’ll be pleased to know that although this blog is all about me, it certainly won’t be all about me! I’m absolutely passionate about spreading knowledge and information and in this section I am going to post links to specific
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This is my first blog that deal with WeBS Surveys so let me set the scene. Once a month, on a Sunday coincident with a high tide during daylight hours (usually between 10am and 2pm), The British Trust for Ornithology
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It’s a place I first visited with my parents back in the late 1970’s an have probably been at least 25 times in the intervening forty years. It had however been quite a while since my last visit to Ingleton
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I’ve grown up and lived close to Marton Mere in Blackpool all of my life, and as a resident of an urban environment, I have always loved its apparent wildness and tranquillity, particularly when you consider that it sits just
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Something a little different on Sunday when a few members of Fylde Bird Club teamed up with members of the Lytham & District Wildfowlers Association (LDWA) and a good number of Scouts from the 2nd Freckleton Scout Group, to carry
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