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Fairfield Wildlife Blog

News, observations and updates about what is happening with wildlife in the Nature Reserve and in the Orchard. For more recorded local observations, see the Fairfield Nature Reserve Project on iNaturalist.

Visit to Brockholes

On July 10th a group of 9 of us visited Brockholes  ( Lancashire, Manchester and N. Merseyside Nature Reserve) … Read More

Young Woodpecker

Walking around the path below Pony Wood a few evenings ago, we saw two Greater Spotted Woodpeckers. Almost … Read More

Butterfly identification

Can anyone help with the identification of the two butterflies / moths in the photograph? I think the … Read More

Water rails???

Two rather different birds around the outlet to Alder Pond yesterday. A passer by thought they were water … Read More

Wildflowers

Resumed work ragworting today and noticed a few more flowers. Nice to see yarrow and hawkbit growing in … Read More

Early morning birds

Graham did his latest monitoring walk around last Saturday at the early hour of 7am. He surprised a … Read More

Thrush and flowers

Very good sighting of a song thrush perched on one of the Orchard apple trees this morning. Also … Read More

Bird sightings by Richard

Drip’s last post mentioned that a group of FOG members went round the reserve with Richard Storton from … Read More