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The first MNA coach trip of 2015 saw us returning to Marton Mere SSSI on the outskirts of Blackpool.  We disembarked and wandered past some allotments which had good stands of rhubarb and some dried up globe artichokes. Plenty of … Continue reading →

Twenty five members joined the final MNA coach trip of the year to Leighton Moss RSPB Reserve. Our fungi foraging got under way at Charnock Richard motorway services with the dark grey form of Oyster Mushroom Pleurotus ostreatus var. columbinus … Continue reading →

23 members joined the MNA Coach Trip over to Old Moor RSPB Reserve in the Dearne Valley near Barnsley in North Yorkshire. We were slightly later in the year than our last visit in September 2011 but despite missing the … Continue reading →

The last MNA coach trip to the Duke of Devonshire’s Estate at Bolton Abbey had been way back in May 2006 so members were eager to return. I had a quick look around the 12th Century Priory Ruins and adjoining … Continue reading →

Seven years had passed since the last MNA coach trip to Whixall Moss. At nearly 1,000 hectares, the Fenn’s, Whixall & Bettisfield Mosses National Nature Reserve are the third largest and one of the most southerly lowland raised bogs in … Continue reading →

A rather wet and bedraggled group of MNA members boarded the coach for our outing to South Stack RSPB Reserve on Anglesey. Although there was continued rain and  patches of fog during our drive along the scenic north Wales coast … Continue reading →

After circumnavigating the Staffordshire Market Town of Leek on a road diversion we eventually arrived at the RSPB Reserve at Coombes Valley. Coombes Valley was formed at the end of the last ice age, some 10,000yrs ago. A massive ice … Continue reading →

Nineteen MNA members joined our first coach trip of 2014 to White Coppice near Chorley in Lancashire. It has been 7 years since we last visited this location on an abysmally wet day. Thankfully today’s similar wet forecast didn’t materialise … Continue reading →

 Seventeen MNA members joined our first coach trip of the year to the Lancashire Wildlife Trust Nature Reserve at Brockholes just off the M6. Given the recent prolonged heavy rains exceptional foresight was shown by Adam Khan architects design of … Continue reading →

 The final MNA coach trip of 2013 took us through the Derbyshire spa town of Buxton before climbing in a series of sharp bends onto the flat moorland of Goyt’s Moss along the A537 passing the ‘Cat and Fiddle’ the … Continue reading →