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Brockholes, the UK's newest WLT site
Paul Iddon
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We went to Brockholes on Sunday to have a look around. It is very new and in 5 or 10 years will be a fantastic place to visit when you come to Preston.
Here are a few shots from the day - please bare in mind that due to my longest lens being the standard 55-250 IS, these images are mostly large crops due to the fact that most of the subjects were bloody miles away!!!
The River Ribble passes by the centre, and there were a couple of genuinely wild swans on the river:
A long way again, hard to spot but eventually found this (I think) Sedge Warbler:
On what they call the Number One Pit, this is one of several lapwings:
First glimpse of a hare, legging it away from the public area into the scrub - and I was surprised at how quick it went (a bit OoF this one):
And a tufted duck in front of the obligatory Canada Geese:
Lastly (and sorry there are 6, I'm naughty!) this is the moment that the cardinal visited Preston...
OK, sorry, a cardinal beetle in the Brockhole woods at Preston...
The site is as I say in it's formative stages, and will develop once more funds go their way and as nature takes a hold of the excavated land that created it.
Certainly a place I will visit again (especially as it is local).
Paul.
We went to Brockholes on Sunday to have a look around. It is very new and in 5 or 10 years will be a fantastic place to visit when you come to Preston.
Here are a few shots from the day - please bare in mind that due to my longest lens being the standard 55-250 IS, these images are mostly large crops due to the fact that most of the subjects were bloody miles away!!!
The River Ribble passes by the centre, and there were a couple of genuinely wild swans on the river:
A long way again, hard to spot but eventually found this (I think) Sedge Warbler:
On what they call the Number One Pit, this is one of several lapwings:
First glimpse of a hare, legging it away from the public area into the scrub - and I was surprised at how quick it went (a bit OoF this one):
And a tufted duck in front of the obligatory Canada Geese:
Lastly (and sorry there are 6, I'm naughty!) this is the moment that the cardinal visited Preston...
OK, sorry, a cardinal beetle in the Brockhole woods at Preston...
The site is as I say in it's formative stages, and will develop once more funds go their way and as nature takes a hold of the excavated land that created it.
Certainly a place I will visit again (especially as it is local).
Paul.
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