The Friends of Pickerings Pasture and Hale Duck Decoy
are a volunteer group who work with Halton Borough Council
to support, protect, develop and promote these nature reserves.
are a volunteer group who work with Halton Borough Council
to support, protect, develop and promote these nature reserves.
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LATEST WILDLIFE PHOTOGRAPHS Updated 20th Feb '19
Click here for your latest wildlife sightings:
Please use our blog page. You can also send records & wildlife photos to: pickerings123@gmail.com 
The Friends of Pickerings Pasture and Hale Duck Decoy carry out a range of volunteer activities. Apart from the outdoor activities that they carry out, they run an occasional Pop Up Cafe in the site Centre. We open the Café to raise funds for our volunteer activities.
We will open again, for the first time in two months, on Sunday 17th February, from 12 till 3pm. Arrive early if you want to enjoy some homemade food. We will serve till 2.45pm and CLOSE the door and toilets at 3pm. The volunteers can not cope with late arrivals any longer. Sorry, but we are not getting any younger! Best wishes to all our café visitors. We do appreciate your attendance and support. A pair of binoculars was handed in. If you've lost a pair give us a ring on 0151 425 4483. We'd love to return them to the owners. LATEST NEWS -
HBC proposes to build 1700 houses on green belt fields sandwiched between Pickerings Pasture and Halegate Road and on the fields on the other side of Halegate Road, from Halebank Road, through to Hale Village. Most of the land is owned by Hale Estates (on behalf of an absentee land owner) and leased to local farmers, who grow crops every year. What will happen to our local wildlife? Let Halton Borough Council and their planning department know how you feel about the destruction of this small rural wildlife sanctuary on the edge of industrial Widnes. The FoPP were granted a £10.000.00 award, in 2016, to finance the refurbishment of a Pickerings Pasture pathway, through the Tesco Bags of Help initiative. Find out more details. The FoPP applied to the HBC Area Forum for funding for five new multi-use bins, to replace the four old dog bins and we were successful. The bins have been installed and look great. They will usually be emptied twice a week. The bin at the bottom of car park path always fills up quickly and people have dropped bags on the floor by the bin. This is NOT acceptable and, if caught, you'll be finned. The Environment Enforcement Officers are giving out £80 fines. There are 5 bins on site. There are 3 bins on Mersey View Road and 1 bin at the start of the private road to the water works or you can bin it at home. Your dog, your waste responsibility. NO EXCUSE! 
There are several old glass slides of the Hale Duck Decoy.
Please got to the top of the page and click on MORE, then PHOTO GALLERY, then OLD SLIDES OF THE DUCK DECOY, to see more pictures. |
PICKERINGS PASTURE
Click on title below to read pages World Wetlands Day
Alabama Foot Rot What is a Scrape? Hale Duck Decoy - Recent Events Updated Feb '19 Latest News from Pickerings Pasture Updated Feb '19 Volunteer Work Parties 2019 Updated Feb '19 Hale Duck Decoy at Risk Peoples' Walk for Wildlife WeBS Counts - An Urgent Update Nov '18 First Impressions: a guide to FoPP work parties and HDD. Wildlife photographs of Hale Duck Decoy Gallery of photos, both old and new. The Freemen of Hale at the Decoy Top tips for your tubs. Updated from your ideas. Rock On Barney - a best selling children book by FoPP Member - Jenny Jones The Tidal Bore at Pickerings Pasture. The Ibis Pool, Hale - A brief history. Black-tailed godwits Article update Dunlins on the River Mersey The Kingfisher. The Peregrine Falcon. HALE DUCK DECOY
The History of Hale Duck Decoy
Wildlife - Past and Present on Hale Duck Decoy The Restoration of Hale Duck Decoy The Flood 1990 Dredging the Pond and Moat Tidal Surge and Flooding 2013 The Freemen of Hale's Visit 2017 A History of the flooding 2013-2017 
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