Sunday, 28 September 2014

Discover Where You Live by Cath Dyson

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Using a map and compass… To put together the walks and cycles in ‘Discover where you live’ in the Community Index over the last few mo...
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Friday, 1 August 2014

A New Plan to Restore the 'Jewels in the Mersey Valley's Crown'

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When I first moved to South Manchester, in the early 1970s, I soon discovered the Mersey Valley – particularly the Chorlton Ees and Ivy Gr...
Monday, 16 June 2014

My Speech to the Recorders' Conference

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Back in April of this year, the Greater Manchester Local Records Centre organised a Wildlife Recorders' Conference at Manchester Museum....
Friday, 9 May 2014

RSPB in the Mersey Valley

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Recently Manchester City Council issued the following press release: PRESS RELEASE BEGINS Manchester City Council invites the RSPB ‘home...
Sunday, 27 April 2014

Male Whinchat on Chorlton Ees

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Recently local birder, Pete Hines sent me a link to his You-Tube video of a male Whinchat on Chorlton Ees. This bird is, apparently, a summe...
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Wednesday, 2 April 2014

Book Review- 'The Sixth Extinction'

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Review: ‘The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History’ by Elizabeth Kolbert; Bloomsbury, 2014. On one fateful day 66 million years ago, the ...
Tuesday, 22 October 2013

The Fallowfield Loop and 'Greening the Greenways'

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The Fallowfield Loop (‘Floop’) is an off-road cycle path, pedestrian and horse riding route from Chorlton-cum-Hardy through Fallowfiel...