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Boxing hares: An unmissable spring spectacle
Usually shy and retiring, lithe and leggy brown hares are getting ready to put on an extra special show just in time for spring. Take a ringside seat and get ready for some fisticuffs!
White clover
A familiar 'weed' of gardens, roadsides, meadows and parks, White clover is famous for its trefoil leaves - look out for a lucky four-leaf clover in your own garden!
Hare's-foot clover
The downy hairs that cover the pale pink flowers of Hare's-foot clover give it the look of a Hare's paw - hence the common name. Look out for this clover around the coast and on dry…
Red clover
A familiar 'weed' of gardens, roadsides, meadows and parks, red clover has trefoil leaves and red, rounded flower heads. It is often used as fodder for livestock.
Cleavers
Familiar as the bristly plant that easily hooks on to our clothing as we walk through the countryside or do the gardening, cleavers uses its hooks to help it climb and to disperse its seeds.
Garden birds
Britain's Birds
A new set of Wild Guides have been published by Princeton Press. I will be reviewing the new guides this week. Our final guide is Britain’s Birds
Identify garden birds
Cleaner
The Trust are looking for a part-time Cleaner to join the team at Brockholes Nature Reserve.
Golden plover
From spring, look out for the beautiful, speckled gold-and-black breeding plumage of the golden plover. It can be found in its upland moorland breeding grounds from May to September, moving to…
Hands off baby birds
Nature lovers should leave baby birds alone if they find them on the ground according to the Lancashire Wildlife Trust.