Our next weekday habitat management task, clearing birch trees on the Ainsdale LNR grazing enclosure, will take place on Tuesday, February 1st, weather permitting. If you would like to help out, please contact Mike Brown for further details on mb001b9658@blueyonder.co.uk

NMARG's next weekend habitat management task will take place on Sunday, February 6th, when we will be clearing scrub from an area of inner dunes at Ainsdale, on the Ainsdale and Birkdale Sandhills LNR, to help open up and extend the habitat for a small colony of Sand Lizards. For further details, please contact Mike Brown on mb001b9658@blueyonder.co.uk

We will be continuing with our clearance of birch trees in the Ainsdale LNR grazing enclosure on Tuesday 15th February, weather permitting. For further details, please contact Mike Brown on mb001b9658@blueyonder.co.uk

Our next weekend volunteer habitat management task will take place on Sunday, 20th February, when we will be clearing scrub, especially Sea Buckthorn, at Queens Jubilee Nature Trail, near Southport. For further details, please contact Mike Brown, on mb001b9658@blueyonder.co.uk

Our next habitat management task at Queens Jubilee Nature Trail, near Southport, rearranged from the previous Sunday, is taking place on Sunday 27th February. For further details, please contact Mike Brown, by email, on mb001b9658@blueyonder.co.uk

We will be continuing with the tree and scrub clearance on the Ainsdale LNR grazing enclosure on Tuesday, 1st March. For further details, please contact Mike Brown on mb001b9658@blueyonder.co.uk

NMARG's next event is taking place this coming Sunday, when we will be undertaking scrub clearance at the Birkdale Corridor, part of the Aindsdale and Birkdale Sandhills LNR. For further details, please contact Mike Brown on mb001b9658@blueyonder.co.uk

On Sunday morning, March 27th, we are holding a lizard spotting morning on Queens Jubilee Nature Trail, near Southport, combined with a litter pick of the site. Discarded bottles and cans can be a death trap to lizards and small mammals, and we will be removing all we can find at the site. For further details, please contact Mike Brown, on mb001b9658@blueyonder.co.uk

We will be starting our annual bout of sand patch creation and sand patch renovation on Sunday, May 1st, in order to provide/improve areas of bare sand for Sand Lizards to lay their eggs in. For further details, please contact Mike Brown, on mb001b9658@blueyonder.co.uk

NMARG's next habitat management event is taking place on Sunday morning, May 8th, when we will be creating and maintaining sand patches for Sand Lizards at Ainsdale, combined with a bit of lizard spotting! for further details, please contact Mike Brown, by email, at mb001b9658@blueyonder.co.uk