Speckled Wood 20+
Meadow brown 50+

Four spotted chaser 3
Common blue damselfly 4
Brown hawker
Common hawker

All on East Ellerbeck

Single insect Ellerbeck 5th March 2007

Peacock Inachis io 5th March 2007 Ellerbeck Adlington[/i]

I recently received an e-mail from one of our members which had been sent to him by the Lancs badger group. It said "Badger culling creates conditions for the spread of bovine TB" The authors of this statement , the British Ecological Society conclude "Pasr badger culling policies hav...

Discovered hanging beneath the hairdressers shop facia board at Market Place Chorleyon 17th November, a Lon-eared bat clearly distressed. Bat workers sent for and animal taken away.

Phil Kirk was approached by the Chorley Writers Group soliciting articles of a natural history nature. Some of us have responded, for which they are most appreciative and the outcome is they are to be included in their next publication. Additionally, on the 28th November at Astley Hall, the Group is...

I'm afraid this is where I part company with you Joyce. Whilst I can understand your attitude to mink, which in relative terms are newcomers, I cannot, for the life of me, support you on the irradication of grey squirrels. They have been here for over 120 years brought in as an ornamental species fr...

Am I seeing things or this possible? A very large blue tinted dragonfly flying 12 feet over my garden from woodland. It most certainly was the size of an Emperor. Could it have been anything else? Yesterday I watched a group of house sparrows feeding off a cotoneaster when suddenly a sparrowhawk swo...

It is gratifying that the local media are more and more making contact with the Society to obtain out input on matters relating to natural history. Recently our Secretary Neil Southworth was approached to identify a guillemot which had wandered into our area. Recently I was approached to identify, a...