In mid January Lancashire Wildlife Trust did a week’s work managing the wildflower meadow and dipping pond in Fletcher Moss Park to provide improved wildlife habitats. They brought in machinery to dig ‘scrapes’, shallow pools with muddy margins that dry out in summer, and attract a range of specialised invertebrates that are a food source for waders and other birds. A young heron immediately arrived in search of amphibians, undeterred by our presence.
Lancashire Wildlife Trust also sent contractors to manage some of the older trees in this part of the Park, removing branches in danger of falling, and leaving dead wood as a further habitat for wildlife.
Our volunteers helped to remove a great deal of willow that was blocking water courses, and we used some of the willow to create a low fence around the bulb lawn by the Croft.
Digging out a scrape on wildflower meadow