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Wildlife in North Lancashire 2016 Wildlife In North Lancashire 2016 35th Annual Newsletter of the North Lancashire Wildlife Group Price £2.50 NLNG Committee 2016-17 North Lancashire Wildlife Group Chairman Mike Moon The Group is a local group of the Wildlife Trust for Lancashire, Manchester & N. Merseyside, primarily for Treasurer Chris Workman members living in the Lancaster City Council District Minutes Secretary Cis Brook and immediately adjacent areas of Lancashire, South Cumbria and North Yorkshire. Newsletter Editor Barbara Crooks Meetings are open to all members of the Wildlife Webmaster Martin Sherlock Trust. If you are not already a member, come along to Member Linda Renshaw a few meetings and, if you like what we do, join us. Member Rob Zloch The Committee coordinates all the work of the Group Member Steve Garland and, in particular, arranges meetings, field outings, recording sessions, and the production of an annual Newsletter. The Recorders receive and collate records page to help conserve interesting sites, to monitor changing numbers and distribution of species and to contribute Contents 2 to national recording schemes. News from the Committee 2 Our events and meetings are listed on our website - Editorial 3 www.nlwg.co.uk and also on the ‘What`s On’ section of the Lancashire Wildlife Trust’s website. For further Planning and conservation 3 information contact the Chairman, Mike Moon, E-mail Reserves Reports 4 [email protected] or telephone him on 01524 Recorders list and Reports 8 701163. Field Meetings 30 Printed on paper from sustainable sources by itnetuk Miscellany 36 The copyright to all the photos in this publication remain the property of the photographer or organisation named. Cover photo: Otter by D Poole News from The Committee the last year in helping us to advertise the activities of the group locally. As this 2016 Newsletter is about to go out to print, we are in the middle of our winter programme meetings which have so In this coming Spring and Summer (2017) there will be more far included enjoyable talks on a variety of subjects such as opportunities for people to get involved with the Biodiverse Myers Allotment, Badgers and Hedgehogs, as well as Society Project, a Heritage Lottery Funded project between members own talks and photographs. An enjoyable, social the LWT and the local record centres - Lancashire evening was held in December with an entertaining quiz Environmental Records Network (LERN) and the Merseyside compiled by Steve Garland, and a shared Christmas buffet. Biobank. The focus of the project is to survey and update All our programmes throughout the year can be viewed on records on the local wildlife sites (known in Lancashire as our website – www.nlwg.co.uk as well as on the Lancashire Biological Heritage Sites) and to make the collection of Wildlife Trust website. accurate data sustainable into the future. Volunteers and local groups will be given the opportunity to learn the skills Pete Marsh resigned from the committee in 2016 and we to carry out this essential work. In this remaining year of the thank him for all the help and time that he has given to the project, more sites will be surveyed in North Lancashire, Group. We were sad to lose such a valuable member; including at least one in Lancaster itself. fortunately, he has continued in his role as Bird Recorder. We were pleased to welcome Rob Zloch as a new member, If readers are interested, or would like to register as a who is also the Ladybird Recorder. Rob is very enthusiastic volunteer on the project, please contact the Project Manager, Joanne Moore on [email protected] or about insects, particularly Diptera, and he has shared his 07738 545438. More information is available on the LWT interest on our field trips. Rob has also been very helpful in website. 2 Editorial if this year even more people feel able to write an account of a field trip. Field trips are always a highlight This year, the newsletter has been printed by a local of our year and, with plenty of people available to help Carnforth firm for a very reasonable rate. This has with identifying species, it is a good way to remember allowed us to place photographs alongside the relevant and learn more about what we have found. articles, creating a more enjoyable and relevant read. In the Miscellany section, Michael Foley describes the Once again, contributors have been very generous in Solitary Bees which he has found at Brockholes Nature sharing their knowledge and this edition contains a Reserve at Preston; Linda Renshaw shares her love of good variety of interesting and informative pieces. the River Keer with us and her interest in Medicinal The reports about our local reserves and planning Leeches and Anne Smith tells us about her favourite applications describe what a busy year it has been for tree - The Yew. Gail Atkinson delights us again with her the Trust staff in North Lancashire and the potential third annual Hedgehog Diary, whilst I describe how a impact of industrial change. Our Recorders have beginner can start to learn about Sphagnum Mosses at written both specialist pieces and overviews of how a workshop at Heysham N.R. different species have fared in 2016 and, as ever, there As ever, my thanks go to everyone who has sent in an is both good and bad news to share. Please look at the article or photographs despite being busy with their list of Recorders in the newsletter and remember that own work commitments, or, as the case with recorders, they will welcome any enquiry or record of species that gathering their own records together. My sincere people may find. Photographs are always welcome. thanks go to Laura Sivell who does a splendid job by Between April and September, we held 7 field trips, doing all the typesetting and layout, without which including a garden bioblitz and what has become an there would be no edition. annual survey on behalf of the Fairfield Association Barbara Crooks Nature Reserve in Lancaster. Four of our exciting field trips are described in this edition. It would be fantastic Planning and Conservation Community Benefits Funds associated with major energy schemes, such as the Walney Offshore Major energy schemes continue to dominate on the Windfarm, to support its management. When we Heysham coast – especially National Grid’s huge North purchased Heysham Moss, I don’t think we would ever West Coastal Connections project: have envisaged it being surrounded by energy (www.northwestcoastalconnections.com). developments in such a short space of time; such is the Our initial concerns centre around the likely impact on pace of change in the industry. our Heysham Moss nature reserve – particularly the Over Kellet Pond and Warton Crag have also been proposed removal of the existing pylons and subject to adjoining planning applications this year. infrastructure across the reserve and further woodland Fifteen dwellings and a new access road were proposed clearance associated with the provision of a temporary next to the pond but the application was withdrawn. A power line prior to undergrounding the supply. There new house on Coach Road was proposed next to Potts is also the possibility of dewatering and hydrological Wood but permission was refused on the basis of impacts - so much to think about! We are working adverse impacts on the Arnside and Silverdale AONB. closely with Cumbria Wildlife Trust, Natural England, RSPB and Lancashire County Council to hopefully Other planning policy work has included commenting ensure that all the possible terrestrial and marine upon Neighbourhood Plans (Dolphinholme, impacts of this huge project are fully addressed. Morecambe, Slyne with Hest and Wennington) plus more strategic documents such as the current Arnside Heysham Moss is now in receipt of some funding from and Silverdale AONB Draft Development Plan the adjoining solar farm and we continue to bid into the 3 Document which sets out proposed sites for advocating for retention of all the European law on development or protection and planning policies for protection of wildlife and wild places to be transferred the AONB. into UK legislation, and for the UK to adopt better approaches to nature conservation in UK policy than Elsewhere in Lancashire, gas extraction and storage pertain under the EU’s Common Agricultural Policy and remain huge issues. The underground gas storage Common Fisheries Policy. proposal beneath the Wyre Marshes Nature Reserve near Fleetwood has been consented following Judicial If you wish to know more, please visit: Review. Construction is expected to start in 2018 at http://www.wildlifetrusts.org/news/2016/12/08/uk% the earliest. Further south in Fylde, hydraulic E2%80%99s-major-environmental-organisations-unite- fracturing (“fracking”) has been controversially highlight-%E2%80%9Conce-generation-opportunity% approved by the Government at two sites (Roseacre E2%80%9D and Preston New Road, near Little Plumpton). Construction work on the Preston New Road site is Cat Smith (MP for Lancaster and Fleetwood) has signed expected to start in early 2017. this Pledge for the Environment. Nationally, the Wildlife Trusts advised against leaving Kim Wisdom the European Union strictly on nature conservation Conservation Officer for North Lancashire grounds. Following the Referendum result, we are now Reserves Reports North Lancashire Reserves Report 2016 uncompleted by the close of the year, it is going to be a great facility and will hopefully allow us to continue to As ever, it has been a busy year across the Trust deliver the excellent level of community engagement reserves in North Lancashire, some behind the scenes work within the Heysham area for many years to come. and some more apparent to those that have visited It is also a sign of the level of commitment from EDF to some of our sites in the last year.
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