A momentous day for Silverdale. The pit wheel has been erected. A few fixings, another coat of paint and some tidying left to do over the next few days but almost complete. Many thanks to the parish council and all those involved.

Nice to see a few visitors braving the beast from the east as they visit Silverdale country park but please take care and wrap up warm. Here are some photos to enjoy over a cuppa indoors

Bit chilly this morning but our volunteers were out today building a sleeper bridge and fencing. many thanks to them.

This looks fun https://www.facebook.com/events/158152944810191/?ti=icl

Wonderful news. Work has started today to install the Miners Pit Wheel on the corner of Silverdale Country Park near our Green Flag and the Silverdale Athletic Football Club car park. The miners wheel has been kept safe for many years under the watchful eye of local mining families and we are all eager to see it reinstated for all to enjoy and remember. Work starts today for the next couple of weeks which will affect some path access in the area but hopefully our visitors will forgive some minimal disruption. Many thanks to the Parish Council and allthose involved for making this happen Here are some old photos of the wheel

A cool start for our volunteers today but everyone soon warmed up managing our woodlands. It was great to see the fruits of our efforts over the last 7 years. Wildlife habitat such as dead wood is doing really well providing us lots of different fungi to admire

Nice to see the dangers of feeding birds bread being described so well

Great fun today with our volunteers planting 70 trees as a wildlife shelter belt and doing some tree thinning and dead hedging. Also found this interesting fungus. Is it only me that thinks it resembles a piece of battered fish from the chip shop from the back....

Family fun available here

Happy New year everyone. If anyone has any information on the fly tippers who over New Year discarded rubbish at our High Lane, Scot Hay Pull In and Cannel Row entrances please can you get in touch? We managed to find an address on some mail amongst the rotting nappies from the rubbish left at Scot Hay today, which the Police are now investigating but a date the rubbish was left would help. For reference, address details previouslyfound in fly tipping at High lane in December are also being investigated and in previous years we have been able to identify 2 other fly tippers who were prosecuted and fined so it is worth sharing any details on fly tipping you may have so that we can combat the disgusting people who leave fly tipping.

Dead hedging and then a Turkey dinner now that's the way to spend time with our wonderful volunteers

DANGER ! Please keep your dogs and yourselves off the Ice!!! Fudge the dog nearly drowned today when he fell through the ice after running to the middle of a frozen lake at Silverdale Country Park. By luck I was retrieving a life ring that sadly had been thrown into the frozen lake, so luckily saw Fudge fall in. 5 mins later and I wouldn't of been there to see it. Fudge couldn't pull himself out of the freezing water onto the ice but was able to tread water long enough for me wade out into the lake breaking the Ice with a spade to get fudge out. Fudge is okay as is everyone else this time but I cannot say strongly enough. Respect Water and Respect the Dangers of Frozen Lakes. I don't think I'll ever forget the anguish I saw on the little girls face and her mum's face whilst they helplessly watched their dog Fudge about to drown succumbing to hypothermia. Please be careful everyone! Merry Christmas Andy the Ranger.