THE Woodland Trust is urging people to get out and visit local woods, enjoy the autumn colours – and take photographs to share their experiences on the web.
Grappenhall Heys and Spud Wood, at Lymm, are two woods in the Warrington area being flagged up as places well worth visiting.
But the website www.visitwoods.org.uk will show many more accessible woodlands all over the country.
There are already more than 9, 640 pictures on the site – which also provides information on facilities such as cafes, kiosks and wheelchair access.
Anyone who would like to formally record what they see can register for a free starter pack at www.naturescalendar.org.uk and record what they saw.
Changing colours, arriving and departing birds, the holly berries, etc.
A Woodland Trust spokesman said: “All these recordings add to the scientific study of the times of recurring natural phenomena, which is called phenology, and which plays a very important role in estimating climate change and demonstrating how it is affecting our wildlife habitats and ancient woodland.”
Pictured: a woodland in autumn
Get out and about in the woods
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I’m lucky to have three small plantations on my door step where I live. The Woodland Trust provides us we great areas to walk, relax and appreciate wildlife of many types and this are a great initiative to capture and show other people how nice these places are.
They are also areas that need your protection so when you see or hear of any damage taking place (like boy racers scrambling on their bikes, fire etc.) please report such incidents to the Woodland Trust via their web site and/or the police or the Warrington Nature Conservation Forum via our Facebook Site. Unfortunately last year the specialist Cheshire Police Wildlife Officerās position was withdrawn but we are going to lobby to see what can be done to make service aware of the gap that now exists because our members believe that we are no longer getting the response to wildlife calls that we used to in Warrington. If you have any concerns then please let WNCF know about them.
In addition the WNCF would like to hear about any unusual species like Bee Orchids (that we can protect), or even the converse invasive species like Himalayan Balsam please let us know at the Warrington Nature Conservation Forum via our Facebook Site and we will try and do something about it.
At our autumn meeting we heard from an officer of the Woodland Trust who asked us to join her removing Himalayan Balsam from the Radley Plantation near Peel Hall.
Many thanks in advance for your support, with your support we will aim to help you protect these valuable green spaces.
The works of the finest human artists that ever walked this planet have come nowhere near the beauty that nature produces.
That’s very true although I’m currently paintining a fushia which will hopefully hand on our dinning room wall in a few weeks time:-)
Just walking through the woods mentionedabove is like walking in a lovely landscape painting. The Woodland Trust need more photos to show others what their estate is like.
Geoff that’s two of today’s stories where we seem to be singing from the same hymnsheet ! – what is the world coming to? š
Harmony