... Nature Notes A pair of red squirrels have been seen in a local wood, and the Wildlife Warden at Haigh Country Park, Graham Workman, tells me that up tp three pairs of wood warblers have nested in the Park. Five pairs of great crested grebes have bred ...

... Nature notes The old year ended with green woodpacker, a woodcock, several parties of siskins, and foraging cole tits in Haigh Country Park. At Worthington Lakes, RSPB member T. Morton watched two kingfishers with more than 550 gulls and a few more parties ...

... Nature ‘Notes Early February's bitter winds knifed across Rivington and brought snow to the Douglas Valley: only small amounts compared with West Yorkshire and Derbyshire. g TP The hard weather, however, did not put an end to the daily song of the familiar ...

... Nature Notes WIGAN OBSERVER, Thursday, July 31, 1986 7 Recently a starling was found shot dead in Wrightington. The ring on its leg was given to Hindley Ringing Team Leader, Ray Yates. A final message has now arrived through the official channels to reveal ...

... Nature Notes After heavy overnight rain I watched a party of seven snipe spring up from a flooded field and zig-zag rapidly and low across a busy minor road. Snipe travel great distances west and south as their northern breeding grounds become frost and ...

... - Nature Notes As some of the last winter goldeneye were observed in a North West estuary and on Wigan’s Scotman’s Flash on a delightful Spring day, there was some evidence that the first of our “summer” birds had already arrived in Lancashire. We heard ...

... Nature Notes was thickly fringed with seeding persicaria (redleg), one of the tree sparrow's main attractions. In snowy weather last January an R.S.P.B. member estimated there were 150 with approximately 200 skylarks and 85 yellow-hammers at a paricular ...

... Nature Notes Early in the 19th Century, ruffs nested regularly at Martin Mere (before final drainage). Eggs were taken from a nest there in 1910, which proved to be the Ist British nesting record for 53 years. ’ In 1963 it began to breed again in the ...

... Nature notes The old year ended with green woodpacker, a woodcock, several parties of siskins, and foraging cole tits in Haigh Country Park. At Worthington Lakes, RSPB member T. Morton watched two kingfishers with more than 550 gulls and a few more parties ...

... Nature Notes D%hm weather of mid- r a pair of mallard were on the river below Brock Mill Lane, and in the cold, grey mist of early morining a grey sglmnel moved rapidly throuth the frost-covered grasses and medge down to the water’s Earlier, three more ...

... Nature notes It is now safe u} report that two pairs o wfig duck (Nrallard) have nested in the Douglas Valley below Wigan Lane. On May 23rd a brood of seven were on the River Douglas on the fringe of the lower Flantations. Ten days ater, on June 2nd, a ...

... Nature Notes wait for There’s some anims) S el Easter While world has slept, many of the animals have been doing what they do best. . . producing babies guaranteed to make the visitors say “Aah”. Top of the animal pops league will be the two baby ringtail ...