Brockholes

Images from a visit to the Lancashire Wildlife Trust reserve at Brockholes, Preston, Lancashire.

Great Tit

Chaffinch

Nuthatch

Blue Tit

Robin

English Longhorn

Wooden figure

Mere Sands Wood

Back to wildlife again this week with a few images from Mere Sands Wood, Rufford, Lancashire.

Dunnock

Shoveler

Great Crested Grebe

Mallard

Astley Green Colliery

This 20thC colliery is now a museum and still has its pit head gear and winding engine.  For many years it was the deepest mine in the area at 833 yards.  It was sunk in 1908 and closed in 1970.  In 1939 five men were killed in a gob fire (a fire caused by the spontaneous combustion of decaying timber and coal dust).

I haven't put titles to any of the images.  They can speak for themselves.