The 43rd Annual Magazine of the North Lancashire Wildlife Group (NLWG)
The 2025 issue of NLWG’s annual publication Wildlife in North Lancashire is now available. With 64 pages of reports and articles and nearly 300 photographs it is a celebration of our local wildlife in North Lancashire and the surrounding area.
How to get your copy of the latest NLWG Magazine
How to pay
You can pay by cash on delivery or bank transfer – please put your name as reference.
Account details are:
- Account name: North Lancashire Wildlife Group
- Sort code: 77-26-13
- Account number: 34915060
Local delivery
The magazine is £5 (payment by cash on delivery or bank transfer) and will be hand-delivered locally by contacting Chris Workman. .
Mail order
- As shown on our website – www.nlwg.org.uk – one magazine will cost £6.50 including P&P.
- Contact the editor, Rob Zloch
- Payment by bank transfer – please put your name as reference and email Rob with your postal address and so that he is aware that payment has been made.
For further details and images see www.nlwg.org.uk
What’s in this year’s issue?
| Contents | Page |
|---|---|
| North Lancashire Wildlife Group | 3 |
| News from the Committee | 3 |
| Editorial | 3 |
| Trust Reports 2024 | |
| Conservation and Planning | 4 |
| North Lancashire Reserves Report | 6 |
| Connecting to Nature | 7 |
| Wildlife Recorders’ Contact List | 9 |
| Wildlife Reports 2024 | |
| Bats | 10 |
| Shieldbugs | 11 |
| Arachnids (Spiders and Harvestmen) | 12 |
| Reptiles and Amphibians | 14 |
| Fish | 16 |
| Orthoptera (Bush-crickets, Grasshoppers, and Groundhoppers) | 18 |
| Beetles and other Invertebrates | 20 |
| Ladybirds | 22 |
| Butterflies | 23 |
| Mammals | 26 |
| Odonata (Dragonflies and Damselflies) | 28 |
| Botany | 30 |
| Moths | 31 |
| Birds | 35 |
| Events 2024 | |
| Winter Programme of Indoor Talks 2023-24 | 42 |
| Identification Workshops | 42 |
| Summer Wildlife Fair | 43 |
| Field Meeting Reports 2024 | |
| Spring Walk in Park Wood | 45 |
| Brown Robin Nature Reserve | 46 |
| Sandscale Haws | 47 |
| Hermitage Field Community Meadow | 48 |
| Moorland Amble, Grizedale Bridge | 49 |
| Trowbarrow Quarry | 50 |
| Field trip to Middleton Nature Reserve | 52 |
| Urban Stroll | 53 |
| Plants of the Saltmarsh, Conder Green | 54 |
| Lune River Meander, Arkholme | 55 |
| Pond Dipping at Fairfield | 56 |
| Tree Walk in Lancaster Cemetery | 57 |
| Miscellany | |
| A Very Strange Family | 58 |
| Immortal Hydras | 59 |
| Dragonfly Emergence | 60 |
| A Feast for the Eyes | 61 |
| Claver Hill, Community Growing Project | 62 |
| Summer Wildlife Walks Programme 2025 | Back Cover |