Activities
2015-9th April-Easter Egg Hunt
Easter Egg Hunt It was a wonderful warm, sunny day for our Egg Hunt. Over 200 children accompanied by parents or other responsible adults walked round Arena Hill looking for clues to allow them to complete their quiz sheet. Many had brought hard boiled eggs and tried...
2015-8th March – The end of winter is in sight?
End of Winter? The Friends are coming out of hibernation. Some of the Friends have done work during the winter months. The bird boxes have been inspected, cleaned and repaired and Friends have continued to open and lock up the gates when needed but we have not had a...
A HUGE thank you.
Thank you. The Friends of Three Sisters would like to thank Councillor Ann Rampling for a very generous donation from her Brighter Borough Fund to ensure that we will be able to continue to feed the birds for another year. Thank you Ann.
Another brightly coloured visitor!
Kingfisher spotted. The perches that Tony and Paul erected at the Wetlands last summer are proving successful at encouraging Kingfishers to visit. There was another prolonged view of a male fishing on Saturday 24th January. The bird caught at least half a dozen small...
Do we have canaries at the Feeding Station?
Unusual bird This very yellow little bird was seen at the Feeding Station on Saturday 17th January. It is an unusual Great Tit. It has no black pigment in its feathers and this is called ‘leucistic’. You may see it if you keep your eyes open. The other photos, taken...
Not only people use our signs!
Buzzard Some years ago the Friends made finger posts to guide people around the site. It looks as though the people are not the only ones to use the signs! This buzzard is making sure it goes the right way.
2014-7th December – The Big Tree Plant.
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...
2014-30th November-Workday-The trees are down at last.
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 turned...
2014-November 9th-Workday.
Extension to compost bin The morning was bright and sunny and five Friends met on the car park to work. A young man arrived to ask if he could help us as he is just starting to do his Duke of Edinburgh award and he would like to volunteer at the Three Sisters....
2014-November 2nd- Who is building a new Board Walk?
Access to Old Dipping Pond While walking round the Three Sisters today, we discovered that 'SOMEONE' is re-building the board walk that goes from Kestrel Drive, past the Old Dipping Pond and comes out near the Main Drive. The previous board walk was removed some years...
2014 – October- Lydia moves to Bolton.
Lydia moves to pastures new. We were sad to hear that one of our links with Lancashire Wildlife Trust, Lydia McCool, is going to be leaving us to take up a new post in Bolton. We will miss her as she has been very enthusiastic about things we have done on the Three...
2014 – September – Update on avian botulism.
Do not feed bread to the birds on the lake. The condition of the lake appears to be back to normal with no dead birds reported since 1st September 2014. The Avian Botulism that was present in the lake is not harmful to dogs which enter the water unless they bite or...