The Friends of Pickerings Pasture and Hale Duck Decoy are a volunteer group who work with Halton Borough Council to support, protect, develop a and promote these nature reserves.
YOU CAN CONTACT US AT: garylynda_broad2@btinternet.com OR 0151 425 4483
For wildlife sightings use: pickerings123@gmail.com
For wildlife sightings use: pickerings123@gmail.com
LATEST NEWS
Previous slideshow photos have been transferred to PHOTO GALLERY > MAINLY BIRDS
Click here for your latest wildlife sightings:
Please use our blog page. You can also send records & wildlife photos to: pickerings123@gmail.com The FoPP were granted a £10.000.00 award, in2016, to finance the refurbishment of a Pickerings Pasture pathway, through the Tesco Bags of Help initiative.
Click on MORE, at the top of the page, to 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! |
Why not join The Friends of Pickerings Pasture this summer? Updated 17th August Click to see more >>
Important Announcement
Due to a recent incident we ask you to keep an eye out for men hunting both with dogs and guns. These men are hunting on United Utilities land and other fields adjacent to Pickerings Pasture. Not only is this illegal but they have also abused people and even threatened them.
The police can only prosecute if they are "caught in the act", so please act immediately by calling the police on 101 or 999 if using guns. Thank you PICKERINGS PASTURE
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Pickerings Pasture Photographic Competition 2017 - the title is MY PICKERINGS.
Photos should reflect your feelings about the site, your favourite views and images or what you best like that happens on site. You can enter three photographs. A4 is a good size but we will accept slightly larger or smaller pictures. There will be no charge and the wining photographer will be invited to take coffee and cake, for two, at the café. Photographs should be handed in at the Pop Up Café by the end of August, with your name, address, telephone number or email address. The winner will be announced on the Sunday 10th Sept, at the Café, where all entries will be displayed. DUCK DECOY GUIDED WALKS
We still hope to be able to offer Decoy guided walks again this year, in September. Dates will be advertised. 
A Pickerings Pasture leaflet is now available in the Visitors Centre. It has been funded by our DONATION POST and BOOKS and BITS table, at the Sunday Café. Many thanks for your contributions.
The FoPP have also purchased storage for the Centre, funded, again, by your kind donations to us. Pop into the café and you'll see the improvement the storage has made. Please go to the top of the page and click on PICKERINGS PASTURE, then Pickerings Pasture volunteers to find out more. 
PICKERINGS PASTURE POP UP CAFE We will continue to run the Pickerngs Pasture Pop-up Café in the Visitors Centre, on Sunday afternoons, selling refreshments, home cooking, books and bits and opening the public toilets, when possible. Do remember that we are not a business and we have no facilities to accept card payments. We are run by volunteers who want to offer a little extra to visitors, with an opportunity to use the Centre and toilets. As a volunteer activity, times and dates may change at short notice, though we do try to keep you up to date with our plans. Through the summer we hope to continue to provide home made savouries, pies and cakes. Tea and toast will cost you just £1.20p. On the 13th August we will be open from around midday, with Lynda providing more homemade goodies. Look forward to seeing you, for service with a smile. Dates up till Xmas are now on the new café notice board. 
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. 
Visitors from a botanical society in Nantes, France, joined FoPP members to look for and identify plant specimens on Pickerings Pasture and Hale Duck Decoy, on July 4th, 2015.
A Visitor Centre has opened in Widnes with views of the work on our New Bridge. >> Click here .
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Click this text to go to a map of Pickerings Pasture on Google Maps.
You could also go to Google Earth and key in WA8 8LP as the location. 
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 WILDLIFE REPORTS FOR PICKERINGS PASTURE
AND HALE DUCK DECOY Click on pictures. 
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