Eaves Wood is a protected woodland and Site of Special Scientific Interest in the Arnside and Silverdale National Landscape, known for its wide variety of plant species and the presence of red squirrels. The dominant trees are ash and hazel. Other tree species present include sessile oak, small leaved lime, wild service tree and Lancashire […]
Our April Indoor meeting, at 7.30pm on Thursday 10th April 2025 will be a talk by Gary Hedges about improving our understanding of threatened Invertebrates in Lancashire Gary Hedges is an Entomologist based in World Museum, Liverpool. Within entomology, he specialises in weevils and leaf beetles, and moths, but has a wide natural history interest […]
Andy Mather – “The Calderdale Otter Project”: A citizen science project monitoring the local fortunes of one of the UK’s most charismatic mammals. Eurasian otters are apex predators in the freshwater ecosystems of the UK. However, as recently as 50 years ago they were all but extinct in England, with remaining populations confined to the […]