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.
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Latest Photographs from Hale, Halebank and Pickerings Pasture.
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Please use our blog page. You can also send records & wildlife photos to: pickerings123@gmail.com 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. 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! Pickerings Pasture Photographic Competition 2018 " WET, WIND, SUN or FROST at Pickerings " Get out there with your camera and capture some special photographs at Pickerings. Hand them in at the Sunday café. We like them to be around A4 size. There is no charge to take part. 
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. 
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The FoPP meet at Pickerings Pasture Visitors Centre every other month to plan voluntary work at Pickerings Pasture and the Decoy. Every month there is a project morning. We are always happy to welcome new members. Just turn up. Click for more information. 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. On Sunday, April 8th and 22nd, we'll be open from 12 till 3pm. Look forward to seeing new and regular café visitors. 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. Any money we make goes to the Friends of Pickerings Pasture and Hale Duck Decoy. As a volunteer activity, times and dates may change at short notice. 
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 ** The Freemen of Hale at the Decoy **
** Hale Duck Decoy - Flooding Update ** Gallery of photos, both old and new. Updated Apr 18 Pickerings News Updated Apr 18 World Wetlands Day Top tips for your tubs Rock On Barney is a best selling children book by FoPP Member - Jenny Jones The Tidal Bore at Pickerings Pasture. Work Parties 2018 Updated Apr 18 The Ibis Pool, Hale - A brief history. Wildlife photographs of Hale Duck Decoy Updated Mar '17 >> 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 
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. 
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