Winter 2011 Newsletter
2012 Birthday Celebrations
2012 is Cheshire Wildlife Trusts's 50th birthday, and the 100th birthday of the Wildlife Trusts movement. Coincidently, Wirral Council's Tourism Dept. decided to make it their "Year of Coast and Countryside", when they will particularly promote Wirral's natural assets to residents and visitors.
This was too good an opportunity to miss, so Wirral Wildlife have got together with the Tourism initiative. We have organised 10 guided walks, and 5 wildflower plantings, for the Year of Coast and Countryside programme, which will benefit from much wider publicity than we normally get. Look out for leaflets soon. We will also have further details on our website, as well as on the Cheshire Wildlife Trust one (www.cheshirewildlifetrust.co.uk) and the Wirral Tourism site (www.visitwirral.gov.uk). The first few events are shown below and you can view the full list here. We hope to see you at some of them in 2012.
Thanks to funding from Wirral Tourism Dept. and Wirral Society, nearly all the events are free.
Wednesday 15th February, 10.30am
New Ferry Shore: birds and shipping
Watch birds feeding at low tide, walk along past the fever hospital site, talk about history of area including Great Eastern. No need to book.
Meet: Shorefields open space, New Ferry. SJ340857.
Sunday 11th March, 2pm
Help plant 50 wild flowers at New Ferry Butterfly Park to celebrate the 50th birthday of Cheshire Wildlife Trust.
Disabled access.
BOOKING ESSENTIAL: phone 0151 327 5923.
Ideal for families
Meet: New Ferry Butterfly Park, adjacent to Bebington Station car park, off Bebington Road, New Ferry. SJ333851. Come by train or bus, or park inside the Park (disabled especially) or in Port Sunlight.
Saturday 14th April, 2pm
Help plant 50 wild flowers at Birkenhead Park wildflower meadow to celebrate the 50th birthday of Cheshire Wildlife Trust.
BOOKING ESSENTIAL: phone 0151 327 5923.
Ideal for families
Meet: outside the Visitor Centre, Birkenhead Park, SJ310892
Saturday 21st April, 2pm
Woodland management the traditional way.
Thornton Common and Thornton Wood.
See what hedge laying, coppicing, pollarding look like, done by Wirral Countryside Volunteers.
Thornton Common is flat, but Thornton Wood has steep slopes.
BOOKING ESSENTIAL: phone 0151 327 5923.
Meet: Thornton Common, Thornton Common Road, Clatterbridge, SJ323814 (adjacent to Wirral Rugby Club). Some car parking by bridge over motorway.
Tuesday 24th April, 10am
Ancient woodland.
Walk through Dibbinsdale for bluebells, wood anemones and other flowers of ancient woodland, and some local history. Finish with lunch at the Dibbinsdale Hotel if you like! No need to book.
Meet: Bromborough Rake Station, Bromborough Rake, SJ342819. Come by train -
