by Joy Winstanley | Aug 15, 2014 | Activities |
Avian Botulism We are finding more dead water fowl each day. It has been confirmed that the deaths are due to avian botulism. It is thought that the long spell of warm weather may be causing this outbreak and that feeding the birds with white bread is making things...
by Joy Winstanley | Aug 10, 2014 | Activities |
Bird Deaths continue We are continuing to find dead and dying mallards and other water fowl in the lake. The Friends are collecting them and bagging them up for disposal. We are concerned that they may be suffering from Avian Botulism and the dead birds have been sent...
by Joy Winstanley | Aug 3, 2014 | Activities |
Volunteer Work Around the Lake Wigan Leisure and Culture Trust offered to provide us with an Activity Leader who would work with us on the site. We accepted this help and so on the 2nd August we turned up to do some serious work. Unfortunately it was raining very...
by Joy Winstanley | Jul 31, 2014 | Activities |
Lancashire Wildlife Trust The staff of Lancashire Wildlife Trust who are based in the office at the Three Sisters put on an event called Trails in the Park. Parents and children came along and did a walk round the site and answered questions on a work sheet. There...
by Joy Winstanley | Jun 8, 2014 | Activities, blog |
More Work on the Garden We finished planting all the hedging plants that we have but we will need more to hedge the side facing the car park. We continued to dig over the land. This has not been touched for at least ten years and is full of roots so digging is very...
by Joy Winstanley | Jun 3, 2014 | Activities |
New Family of Swans on the Lake There is a swan nesting at the Nature Reserve end of the lake and she has produced five...
