Butterfly Guides
We have just added a new butterfly guides page to the website.
Protecting and improving green spaces in Lancaster
All reported wildlife sightings and plant observations made on the Nature Reserve and in the Orchard. Reports include: birds, minibeasts, other animals, plants and flowers.
We have just added a new butterfly guides page to the website.
We have just added a new bird guides page to the website. This has links to the fantastic Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) online bird guides.
The first new calf of the year was born on the first day of spring, March 1st.
On 10 March there 4 song thrush were looking for worms .
Here is the tally of birds seen at the March (and final) snipe flush.
On a walk round on Tuesday 27 there was a redpoll by the path from the canal to Pony Wood. Also a list of sightings from the board.
These Scarlet Elfcups on a fallen tree trunk in Pony Wood were visible from the Path.
These birds were recorded on the reserve by Rachel Malloch on 17 February.
Wildlife seen on the reserve during the flush count on 5 February.
Birds recorded on the sightings board at the end of January 2024