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Reserve Opening & Closing Times

The Reserve is currently open from 08:00 hrs and closes at 20:00hrs until further Read more...

No.3 Bed Footpaths

To provide a better environment for the butterflies on the Reserve, the path around No.3 bed will not be cut until a date in May Read more...

Black Necked Grebe update 24th April 2023

**Black Necked Grebes** usually arrive back early to mid-March. The majority of adults and larger juveniles leave in July with smaller juveniles staying to August **22nd Read more...

Latest Sightings Of Note: updated 25th April 2023

**28/04/2023** Green Woodpecker, 2 Avocet, 4 Dunlin, Little Ringed Plover, Redshank **27/04/2023** Dublin, 3 Yellow Wagtail, 2 Mediterranean Gull, Wigeon, Ringed Plover, Hobby, House martins, **26/04/23** Read more...

2023 Group Visits Calendar updated 25th March 2023

The current dates in 2023 already booked for visiting groups are listed below. If you are interested in visiting as a group please [CLICK HERE Read more...

Woolston Eyes New Wetland No4 bed

Visitors will know that work started in 2020 on the improvement of No.4 bed wetland for nature. The bed is now open to visit by Read more...

Parking Issues- Weir Lane

WECG would like to remind any visitors by car to enter the Reserve at Latchford on Thelwall Lane and not access on foot by parking Read more...

Latest Sighting - 2023-06-08

More focus on breeding birds this morning, though the continuing light easterlies and clear skies always promised to bring in something of additional interest. We’d no sooner arrived on No.4 bed than the morning’s highlight arrived, in the shape of two Avocets which circled the wetland several times and threatened Read more...

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Download a Map of No.3 bed - principle Reserve bed by Richard Hartley

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Leaving a Legacy to Woolston Eyes

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Bus Services to Woolston Eyes Thelwall Lane entrance - October 2020

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Warrington to Thelwall Lane Bus Time Tables - October 2020

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