Best wishes for a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
Saturday 21 December 2013
Saturday 14 December 2013
Butterfly Park Spreads Its Wings
New Ferry Butterfly Park has had its most successful summer with 1,500 butterfly sightings and nearly 2,500 visitors.
Beneficial wildlife management is going to be
extended further thanks to money donated from Wirral Friends of the Earth and a
Voluntary and Community Action Wirral Grant. These funds went towards engaging
a contractor to strip an area of rubble, suckering plum and snowberry between
the park’s gates and the Bebington Aldi and for planting a boundary hedge
alongside this area.
Local volunteers, plus a party of students from
Liverpool John Moore University Conservation Society, planted 100 shrubs to
establish a species rich hedge for bees and butterflies.
The planted species included caterpillar food
plants: holly for holly blue butterflies, purging buckthorn for brimstone
butterflies, wild privet as a great nectar source for summer butterflies and
hawthorn for hedgerow robustness. New Ferry Butterfly Park now boasts over 400
metres of well-maintained wildlife rich hedgerow, which gives the park a
countryside feel. The first steps have been taken here, to transform this
derelict corner of New Ferry into a wildlife haven.
It is hoped to bring the rest of the area by the
new hedge into meadow management in the future, meanwhile a colourful patch of
cornfield annuals will be established in this disturbed area.
Paul Loughnane, Honorary Reserve Manager
Volunteers cut larger suckering plum down and use a chipper to chip cut materials
Photo: Paul Loughnane
18th November 2013:
Scrubbed up area with suckering Plum regrowth and Snowberry
Photo: Hilary Ash
18th November 2013:
Digger in action removing roots of suckering Plum and Snowberry
Photo: Hilary Ash
Cleared and levelled area, exposed neighbours' fencing
Friday 6 December 2013
Wild About Christmas!
An event organised by Cheshire Wildlife Trust
Location:
Church Farm, Church Lane,
Thurstaston, Wirral, CH61 0HW
Dates:
Saturday 7th and Sunday 8th
December, 11 a.m. - 4 p.m.
Saturday 14th and
Sunday 15th December, noon - 5 p.m.
Saturday 21st and Sunday 22nd December, noon - 5 .pm.
Come along to buy some Wildlife Trust Christmas
gifts and make a clay reindeer.
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