David Barnes continues his interviews with local wildlife heroes, this time speaking to Mike Fisher of the Darcy Lever Gravel Pits Action Group (GPAG).

Sparrows are some of our most familiar birds, but their lives aren't as 'everyday' as they might seem, as our volunteer David Merry explains.

Poke around in the nooks and crannies of your garden and you'll find life even in the depths of winter, as our volunteer and guest blogger, David Merry, demonstrates.

Somehow today’s dawn seemed to be aware that the final day of my festive odyssey was at an end and Christmas, with all its fizz and sparkle, was over for another year.

A mishmash of a day in the wild, you might say a rehash of an earlier report for today the jaunt started at 6.15am and the Wild soon dragged me, slightly reluctantly, into the dark and onto…

A chance to give something back for nature for today was my first of three winter bird counts out on Little Woolden Moss Nature Reserve for the Lancashire Wildlife Trust

This search for the Wild took me away from the moss but in truth still a part of the connectivity that the Wild needs to survive.

What can we do for the wild? This was my thought today, my wander into the wild was about to start.

The wild offered another cuppa, a comfy chair, a garden suddenly buzzing with birds - 15 goldfinch, seven long-tailed tit, six greenfinch and even a magpie seemed to suggest that I needn’t wander…

Recording the elusive Wild on Barton Moss for the Carbon Landscape Winter Farmland Bird surveys.