Mar 5, 2017 | blog, Projects
The warmer weather and longer days are encouraging the plants to start to grow. We are delighted to see a few narcissi and snowdrops battling their way into flower. We look forward to more flowers showing themselves as the weather improves. Here’s to a colourful... read more
Jun 17, 2015 | blog, Projects
Bug Hotel During the past few months we have been collecting things to make a BUG Hotel. We used information from the WildLife Trust to construct our Bug hotel from recycled items. You can find this here. Or just search constructing a bug hotel for much more... read more
Jun 4, 2015 | blog, Projects
National Volunteer Week It is National Volunteer Week and a group of Wigan Council workers turn up to the Three Sisters to volunteer their help. One group set off and cleared litter from the edge of the lake while another group helped to dig over the Wildlife Garden.... read more
Dec 8, 2014 | Activities, Projects
Fruit Trees Red Rose Forest have given us 10 mixed fruit trees to add to our Community Orchard. They are apple, pear, cherry and plum trees and are about six feet tall. The weather on Sunday was cold but sunny and we were able to get the trees planted. We also did... read more
Dec 2, 2014 | Activities, blog, Projects
Work in the Wildlife Garden. We were supposed to be having a Big Tree Plant today but despite putting up posters we had no members of the public for this event. SO— we decided to re-advertise it and move the event to next Sunday 7th December. The Friends who... read more
Feb 26, 2014 | Projects
Making Floating Islands Our cloud making Friends were preparing for the working weekend. On 15th. & 16th.February a group of Friends constructed floating islands, fish sanctuaries and small pontoons and put these on the lake. Plastic bottles were filled with... read more
Feb 3, 2014 | Projects
Making Clouds? Are they making clouds? Watch this... read more
Jan 31, 2014 | Projects
We are constructing some floating islands to help to purify the water in the lake. During the winter months the water in the lake is very clear. This causes a problem for the fish as they can easily be seen and caught by birds, particularly diving birds like passing... read more
Jan 6, 2014 | Projects
Building the new pontoon. Many years ago the Friends put some pontoons at the far end of the lake, near the Nature reserve. The pontoons provide safe places for the birds to sleep and nest. Over the years the wood rotted and the pontoons needed drastic work doing to... read more
