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Hill Hook
Friends of Hill Hook
Regular practical conservation days take place through the year and volunteers have undertaken tasks from woodland thinning, coppicing, and sycamore and scrub control to tree and hedgerow planting.
Volunteer Day - Hill Hook LNR
Come and help manage Hill Hook Local Nature Reserve for a wide variety of species and habitats.
Hill Hook
This attractive historic and varied site encompasses a millpool, wet woodland, meadow with rare flora & notable bird species.
Our Nature Reserves
My family history
Whilst researching his family history, Vic found that many of his ancestors were connected to wild places as gamekeepers, shepherds, millers, gardeners or agricultural labourers. His lifelong love…
Wildlife and Conservation at Hill Hook
The regenerating woodland provides good habitat for whitethroat, chiffchaff, willow warbler and blackcap. Swallows, house martins, sand martins and swifts feed over the Mill Pool in the Summer and Winter visitors such as waxwings have been seen. Grey wagtails nest along the banks of the stream running from the Mill Pool.
My history lesson
Lancashire Wildlife Trust is working with Moorfield Primary school in Irlam to deliver both indoor and outdoor education on the mossland habitat. This includes the history of the area, and the…
Our History
My history book
Tim has volunteered at Astley Moss for five years, helping to increase the water levels on the bogs back to their historic healthy levels. He especially loves watching the birds return to this…
Portway Hill, part of the Rowley Hills
The reserve also boasts many important butterfly species, including one of the few colonies of Marbled White Butterflies in Birmingham and the Black Country. Portway Hill, which is part of the Rowley Hills, is one of our newest nature reserves. Just a few acres of grassland high on the Hills looking out over Sandwell, Birmingham and parts of Dudley