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Sefton Park, 18th November 2015

Posted on November 18, 2015 by Barbara

Despite the warnings of high winds and torrential rain, nine members met at the Lakeside café at the south end of the lake for this easy short walk (11am to 1pm) looking for water and woodland birds. Sefton Park is…

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Hoylake and West Kirby, 15th November 2015

Posted on November 17, 2015 by Barbara

There was a high tide of 8.73m due at 12.40, and it was “Wirral Wader Weekend”. Two MNA members, Christine and Seema, joined us for the event. It was a very windy day with squally showers but still very warm:…

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Remembrance Sunday, 8th November 2015

Posted on November 9, 2015 by Barbara

No nature walk today, because we attended the remembrance service at St George’s Hall, which was also an opportunity to see the newly-installed Weeping Window of ceramic poppies. Its formal name is Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Red, and…

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National Memorial Arboretum, 3rd November 2015

Posted on November 5, 2015 by Barbara

I took myself to the National Memorial Arboretum near Lichfield on a Timewells coach trip, attracted by the promise of yet more interesting trees. It turned out to be a bit of a let-down, because the managers of the site…

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Flaybrick Memorial Gardens, 1st November 2015

Posted on November 2, 2015 by Barbara

Our plan today was to have an orgy of trees, aided by a hand-drawn tree plan of the cemetery made by Bob Hughes about ten years ago, which has recently been improved by John Moffat of the Friends of Flaybrick.…

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Trans-Pennine Trail 11, Gateacre to Halewood, 25th October 2015

Posted on October 26, 2015 by Barbara

Before we started on this last (for us) section of the TPT, we looked at the sign on the north side of Belle Vale Road at the end Childwall Valley Road, which says “In commemoration of the sixtieth year of…

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Stadt Moers Park, Whiston, 18th October 2015

Posted on October 20, 2015 by Barbara

There was a late-blooming wild Rose in the hedgerow near Whiston Station, and five Mute Swans passed high overhead. Ivy was coming into bloom, already attracting Hoverflies, and one fence had a mass of flowering Russian Vine spilling over it.…

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Tatton Park Garden, 11th October 2015

Posted on October 12, 2015 by Barbara

Seven members stayed on the coach to Tatton Park, some to see the deer, but my goal was the garden, to look at the trees and learn some of the rarer ones. On the lawn of Charlotte’s Garden was a…

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Gorse Hill Apple Weekend, 10th October 2015

Posted on October 12, 2015 by Barbara

Gorse Hill Nature Reserve has an orchard, growing traditional old varieties of apple (and a few pears), and celebrates them in the autumn with an Apple Festival. The Sunday Group would have gone on 11th, but the MNA coach to…

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New Ferry, 4th October 2015

Posted on October 6, 2015 by Barbara

Another lovely day, sunny and bright. The terminus of the 464 bus is next to an open field with a river view, which is part of Shorefields Nature Park. It overlooks the mud flats where the Great Eastern was broken…

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