Birdwatching Group visit to Oxenber
This beautiful old wood is home to spectacular displays of bluebells, cowslips and oxslips and some delightful woodland species to boot. What more could anyone want?
All things Settle District U3A
This beautiful old wood is home to spectacular displays of bluebells, cowslips and oxslips and some delightful woodland species to boot. What more could anyone want?
With its nature reserve, shoreline, docks and power station outfall Heysham is home to a wide range of habitats and some spectacular birds. Just about anything can turn up here.
These delightful woods are not just good to look at – they are home to some of our most delightful woodland species including Jay, pied flycatcher, redstart and woodpeckers.
Starting from the car park at Hellifield Health Centre, this is an 8 mile circular walk on a mixture of paths, tracks and farmers fields with some boggy stretches.
With stunning views across Morecambe Bay, South Walney is a fantastic place for bird watching and home to the only grey seal colony in Cumbria. Depending on the weather we may also get the opportunity to help the bird observatory with its ringing programme.
Lying at the entrance to Morecambe Bay, and its internationally significant population of wintering wildfowl, Rossall Point sits on a key migration route for seabirds and passerine migrants. This makes it a great vantage point for sea-watching and migrant-spotting
Group member Richard Candeland highlights for us the incredible diversity of birdlife in Colombia, the country with the longest and most varied bird list in the world.
The sad tale of how we lost the original penguin, Pinguinus impennis - the Great Auk.
The Lune valley is home to a wide range of resident species and wintering birds. We’ll walk the banks of the River Wenning from Hornby, down to where it meets the Lune, and then along the southern bank of the Lune to Loyn Bridge to see what we can find on the river and in […]