Bee Walking is part of a scheme run by the Bumblebee Conservation Trust which is intended to monitor populations of these important pollinators, several of which seem to be in trouble. Our walks involve a circuit of about a mile in Mandale Park, close to the town centre. To keep results comparable, they take place […]
There’s a report on this trip in the monthly Newsletter ******************** Gill Wrigley’s recce report: Today I went on a recce of Moore Nature Reserve in preparation for the RFNS car trip on Sat 26th March. The reserve is accessed by Moore Road which crosses the Manchester ship canal. My satnav took me straight there […]
Rochdale Field Naturalists Society members have kept records of local wildlife for nearly 150 years, but why? What use is made of all that data? Well, now is a chance to find out about one of the ways our hard work makes a real, practical, difference. There will be a talk at 7pm on Thursday […]