Category Archives: Sunday Group

Pickerings Pasture is always a lovely place to visit, especially on a sunny autumn day. Our first birds were Starlings, Chaffinches and a Mistle Thrush in the hedge along Mersey View Road. The tide was out, exposing the huge sandbanks, … Continue reading →

It was a dispiritingly damp and drizzly day, but we all made it to William Brown Street, despite the clock change. This was our second “fossil” walk following the guidance in the booklet published in 2001 by the The Liverpool … Continue reading →

It was very damp and misty at the Muirhead Avenue / Oak Lane entrance to Croxteth Park. 50+ Jackdaws were calling over the woods and there were Black-headed Gulls and Common Gulls feeding on the dewy grass. All the other … Continue reading →

It was a beautiful sunny day, with golden leaves falling and a Wood Pigeon and a Blackbird working through the red berries on my own Cotoneaster as I started out.  A lovely day for the Liverpool Marathon. We met at … Continue reading →

(Report and pictures by John Clegg)  Owing to flooding on Sefton Meadows we had to change our plans. We took the 11am ferry to Woodside to the Wirral Bus and Tram show. At Woodside we boarded a Liverpool Corporation tram … Continue reading →

On a cool, overcast, autumnal morning we took the no. 1 Chester bus to New Chester Road opposite Christ the King church, then headed down the footpath into Eastham Woods. We didn’t see any ground fungi but the recent winds … Continue reading →

It was warm, bright and clear first thing, and although heavy rain had been forecast it didn’t really come down until about 2 o’clock when we were nearly at Sandhills on our way home. Liverpool Geological Society published a little … Continue reading →

To get to Churchtown, take the train to Southport then the 49 Crossens bus from Lord Street to Churchtown village, in the parish of North Meols. This Meols is pronounced “Meals”, whereas the one on the Wirral is “Mells”. It … Continue reading →

We had planned to go to Burscough, but the 12A bus we were expecting at Ormskirk failed to appear, so we went to the park instead. The weather started out overcast and sultry, drizzled a little as we arrived at … Continue reading →

It was an overcast, muggy day, with a few spots of rain. We took the 80A bus to Banks Road / Garston Park and made our way through the Speke and Garston Coastal Reserve down to the shore path. On … Continue reading →