Blog: South Walney

Image: Tom Marshall

We welcome guest bloggers! If you've something to write home about - whether you've got a trail cam in your garden, or you've made a bird box, or visited one of our nature reserves - if it's to do with Cumbria's wildlife & wild places then we'd love to hear from you!

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seal mother and pup at south walney nature reserve credit emily baxter

Grey seal pup season

The grey seal colony at South Walney Nature Reserve is growing, with several pups being born here each year since 2015.

However, young seals and their mothers are incredibly vulnerable to…

a view from a bird hide at south walney copyright Abi Plowman

Salt works, shingle and seals at South Walney

Abi, who volunteers some of her time to the Trust, headed to the Furness Peninsula by bike to explore our South Walney Nature Reserve and wrote about her experience.

Image of oystercatcher on beach credit Chris Gomersall/2020VISION

Protecting our seabirds

In her first blog, Jessie Prentice, Seasonal Warden at South Walney, talks about how she's protecting wildlife at this special coastal nature reserve

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Walney Whale

Late one evening in December 2019, South Walney Warden Sarah and Assistant Warden Cameron were alerted to the presence of a dead whale on the beach at South Walney – a juvenile Minke whale had…

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