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Latest Photo Gallery Comments:- If you would like to access Radio Free Walney, the HQ downloads area, or add comments to images in the Photo Galleries, you must first register as the owner of a basic Friends of Walney web account - click here to register. [Show Page] cathy says: What a fantastic night shot of the lighthouse. I bet very few people have ever seen it like that.[Show Page] colinc says: Yours truly visiting walney's latest shipwreck by the slag bank. [Show Page] Hougenai says: It's a seeder. Sadly it was left there to rot! someone recently has attempted to haul it and further damaged it. Hougenai [Show Page] Hougenai says: Cannada geese are now officially classed as vermin. Since they have appeared on N Walney they have badly effected the native biota. Aggressive behaviour has reduced the number and range of other species. Grazing of areas of emergent vegetation has resulted in an almost total loss of the nationally scarce Equisetum variegatum (variegated horsetail). They should, by rights, be erradicated! Hougenai [Show Page] Hougenai says: The amphibians present on N Walney are;Common Frog, Common toad, Natterjack toad and Palmate newt. Reptiles;only Common lizard is native. Slow worms have been illegally introduced during 2007 Hougenai [Show Page] Hougenai says: The sand and gravel pits you show in your photo's are almost exclusively post 1964. Hougenai [Show Page] Hougenai says: Not so! The shingle communities represented are quite limited in both type and extent. They are still relatively rare and important. They are also under threat as damage by 4x4's continues. Portland spurge is actually a plant more familiar in the grey dunes, it seems to prefer some stability. It's cousin sea spurge is much more at home on the shingle/yellow dune. Hougenai [Show Page] Hougenai says: HI Colin, I've tried to comment via your feedback form with no joy, so will go through the pages and comment. North walney is an sssi in it's own right and has the further designation of NNR National Nature Reserve. It is part of the Duddon estuary SPA and RAMSAR site, which is in turn part of the Morecambe Bay SAC. The natterjack population is not and has never been 'one of the largest iin the uk'. I've been involved with them particularly for about20 years or so during which time the population range and number have declined dramatically. In the 80's low hundred occupied pools from the tip site N wards. Now Low tens survive only in the very northernmost pools of the series. Yours Hougenai [Show Page] colinc says: The three frigates which are currently hanging out in Ramsden dock. Rumour has it that they've been returned by the original customer and that they're up for sale.
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