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
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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 Great News. The FoPP are able to confirm that we have been granted a £10.000.00 award, to finance the refurbishment of the Pickerings Pasture pathways, through the Tesco Bags of Help initiative. News update - the work was completed in just two and a half days.
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 now been installed and look great. They will usually be emptied on Mondays. The bin at the bottom of car park path always fills up quickly and people have already dropped bags on the floor by the bin. This is NOT acceptable. 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 June '17
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 - title will be released shortly.
The 2016 competition, FUN, FUR or FEATHERS at Pickerings Pasture was won by Dave Leeke, with his Robin on the Memorial Bench. All photographs are on display in the pop-up cafe on Sunday's. DUCK DECOY GUIDED WALKS
We hope to be able to offer Decoy Guided walks again this year. 
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. 
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.
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. The café will be open again on May 21st and 28th, from around midday. We will be closed the first Sunday in June but plan to open the following three Sundays. 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 £1.10p, home made pie and gravy £3 or less. Look forward to seeing you, for service with a smile. Keep an eye on this page or, especially, the notice blackboard for dates when FoPP members may be able to open up the café and toilets. The gates close at 7pm from the 1st April. It is important to remove cars from the site by this time, as visitors may find themselves locked in by security staff and have to pay a fine to get out. 
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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