As we drift into autumn so many wildlife spectacles await us, none more so than amazing birds of prey soaring above our nature reserves in Lancashire, Manchester & North Merseyside.

Lorna Bennett, Reserve Officer at Brockholes, takes us through some of the exciting habitat improvement works happening at Brockholes nature reserve this winter.

In his final blog from Heysham Nature Reserve, Alan Wright sees a wildlife spectacle and seeks some of the many birds recorded on the reserve.

Annabelle Brittle shares the joy of volunteering for a worthwhile cause; protecting and diversifying water vole habitats with a group of like-minded people in the autumn sunshine.

In the first of a series of blogs, Alan Wright explores the autumn wildlife around Heysham Nature Reserve.