This #NationalWalkingMonth , leave the car behind...

🌊 Ancient woodland, limestone grassland and sea views
🚆Stations at Arnside and Silverdale
🥾Arnside & Silverdale National Landscape routes - our favourites are 'Route 51' and 'Stunning Silverdale'

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Today was the annual orchid counting day in Silverdale, when our rangers and dedicated volunteers take to their knees to count thousands of flower spikes of Green Winged and Early Purple orchids.The numbers are still being counted so watch this space for our totals!…

The rangers did their first dormouse survey of the season last week. It was too early and cool for any little dormice but the boxes are happily being used by blue tits and great tits. Many thanks to volunteers who are licensed to handle the dormice.

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VIDEO:
🎙️Recorded amongst the spectacular dunes of NT Sandscale Haws NNR hear how the area’s rare (and sometimes shy!) natterjack toads are faring.
Also hear more about the 40th anniversary of the site.
🎧 podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/morec…
#sandscale40 #conservation #podcast #morecambebay

It’s cracking the flags! Enjoy a bit of vitamin N with your vitamin D today.

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💥NEW PODCAST!
🎙️Recorded last night amongst the spectacular dunes of NT Sandscale Haws NNR hear how the area’s rare (and last night, shy!) natterjack toads are faring.
Also hear more about the 40th anniversary of the site.
🎧 podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/morec…
#sandscale40 #conservation

The magic of a special place. One of a kind. #SandscaleHaws40

Beautiful photo Julia. Thank you for sharing. Perhaps they’re still sleeping off the cooler weather. Glad you got to see the slow worm!

Some great sightings at RSPB Leighton Moss this week. Stork at Warton Mires briefly on Monday, Laura from the warden team got a photo through her scope. Pair of pied flycatchers seen nr Lower hide📸J Sneyd
Short Eared Owl at Allen hide this morning. Regular bittern sightings📸J Sneyd

For those weary legs walking up the track to the Knott car park we now have another new Len bench creation for you to rest on and enjoy the view. Thanks so much #volunteer Len for creating it and to Len and Kevin for installing.

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The season’s highlights are starting to appear and this weekend the first Early Purple orchids have popped up on Heathwaite. Next stop cowslips….

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Discover wildflowers, birds, butterflies and other wildlife on Arnside Knott on a NaturesGems tour. 🦋🐦🪻

These slow paced, small group experiences even include a delicious picnic lunch.

8 & 18 May
5 & 15 June
17 July
3 August

Book: naturesgemtours.co.uk/booking/p/f9b5…

Good morning Pepperpot. Blue as far as you can see this morning.

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Celebrate #SandscaleHaws40 - join NaturesGems Tours and our rangers on a Practical Nature Conservation Day. 🌊

Get your boots on, roll your sleeves up, and see the work that goes into looking after this National Nature Reserve: nationaltrust.org.uk/visit/lake-dis…

Booking essential.

Please be aware that we are in lambing season and there are now young lambs in the fields. Please keep dogs under control and take care near farmland. Thank you. (Photo: Ella Riden).

Looking fine and dandy on a sunny day.

Dandelions are a lifesaver for pollinators in early spring. Food for bumblebees, solitary bees, honey bees, hoverflies, beetles and butterflies! And later in the summer house sparrows and goldfinches love their seeds.

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Usually small affairs like maybe a little Eccles cake, King Alfred’s Cake fungus enjoys a bit of dead ash. But this one was a whopper- at least NT scone size and maybe even the diameter of a Chorley cake! National Trust Scones

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Swing your legs from it. Sip your flask on it. Watch the view in front of it.

It’s back! Our wonderful volunteers Len and Kevin have installed a new bench at the Heathwaite crossroads on the Knott. Made by Len’s skilled hands from a fallen oak in Red Hills Wood. What a beauty.

If you spot a curlew in South Cumbria there's now an app to log your sightings and help scientists get a better picture of the population of these stunning birds:
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📷: Margaret Breaks

Looks like this newt we found had a perfectly damp, mossy place to hibernate over winter. On the move now to find a pond and a mate!

Question: is this a smooth newt or a palmate newt?

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