Monthly Archives: September 2015

Trans-Pennine Trail 10, Knotty Ash to Gateacre, 27th September 2015

It’s getting autumnal now, but it was a beautiful day with hardly a cloud in the sky. It’s turning out to be a wonderful season for fruit and seeds, and the Hawthorn is putting on huge displays of red berries. … Continue reading

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Bidston Lighthouse, 20th September 2015

The first yellowing leaves were falling from the Lime trees in Crosby this morning, so autumn is in the air. As we climbed up St George’s Way to Bidston Hill the low shrubs and grass glistened with the flat, dewy … Continue reading

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Princes Park, 13th September 2015

We had a later start today because of a Heritage Open Day appointment at noon at Princes Road Synagogue. In Upper Parliament Street there was a large orange and black ladybird on a shrub-sized Italian Alder. It was as big … Continue reading

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Dibbinsdale 5th September 2015

Morning wander around Dibbinsdale, a nice early find was a sticky Beefsteak Fungus Fistulina hepatica. I headed to the area where I found the erupting Common Stinkhorn Phallus impudicus last weekend – no emerged specimen or characteristic smell about though. … Continue reading

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Botanic Gardens, Wavertree, 6th September 2015

Botanic Gardens is the oldest Liverpool park. It was originally a private walled botanic garden, opened in 1836, making it 30 or 40 years older than any of Liverpool’s other city parks.  It has recently been Grade II* listed by … Continue reading

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Dibbinsdale 30th August 2015

I had a morning wander around Dibbinsdale – my new local patch. Birdlife included Nuthatch, Great Spotted Woodpecker, some vociferous Jays, Buzzard, Bullfinch, a party of Long-tailed Tits and Song Thrush. Oak Artichoke Gall The Oaks were infected with a … Continue reading

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