Pat Regan's Blog, page 31

Pet cats kill up to 270 million animals per year in the UK

 

Nesting time well underway so care is needed.

A new study has suggested that pet cats kill up to 270 million animals per year in the United Kingdom alone.

The study, published recently in the journal Landscape and Urban Planning, assessed the movement and prey of 79 pet cats in inner suburban areas and in areas adjacent to natural habitats on the edge of the suburban area.

Scientists assessed nine sites within the counties of Berkshire and Hampshire, in the UK – all within a radius of 30km from th...

Botanic Gardens in Southport

 

Southport's Botanic Gardens has been a popular attraction for many years. 

As a teenager and later young man in my twenties, I had many happy days in this park when working with Southport Tree Gang in the 1970s.

Like the rest of the borough,  the park was affected back then with some trees succumbing to Dutch Elm Disease and had to be felled.

The popular attraction has received sterling support from hard-working volunteers, yet clearly needs more funding pumping in.

Take care if visiting Botanic Ga...

Still Stuck!

 

A 4X4 vehicle remains stuck in the muddy sands by Southport Pier

OTS News reported:

Southport Lifeboat have confirmed that a vehicle lost to the tide in the process of an attempted rescue last night. Crews were called to assist in the search for a despondent male yesterday evening. While the male was located elsewhere, crews discovered a Land Rover on Southport Beach, which later “succumbed to the tide”.

More details on OTS News

https://www.otsnews.co.uk/land-rover-lost-to-tide-during-southport-li...

Southport’s Lost Maternity and Children’s A & E Hospital Services

 

Lest we Forget!

It is quite surprising that so many local folks these days have no idea whatsoever about how hard some of us fought to try and save our children’s A & E and maternity hospital services back in 2003.

CARES relentlessly created many events, including organising many meetings, a protest march in Southport with an estimated 4,000 people and one in Formby and also raised a massive petition of almost 20, 000 signatures against NHS plans to remove the services.

Above: Just one of many me...

Southport’s lost Maternity and Children’s A & E hospital services

 

Lest we Forget!

It is quite surprising that so many local folks these days have no idea whatsoever about how hard some of us fought to try and save our children’s A & E and maternity hospital services back in 2003.

CARES relentlessly created many events, including organising many meetings, a protest march in Southport with an estimated 4,000 people and one in Formby and also raised a massive petition of almost 20, 000 signatures against NHS plans to remove the services.

Above: Just one of many me...

Black Swans of the Marine Lake

 

A rare pair of Black Swans has been seen on the Marine Lake in Southport.
The Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust have recorded a maximum of nine breeding pairs in the UK in 2001, with an estimate of 43 feral birds in 2003–2004.

The first specimen was brought to the UK in 1791. They are regularly seen in wildlife parks in the UK, but  rarely spotted in the wild.

Black Swans are a native Australian species, notably in Western Australia where they are the state bird.

OTS News have reported sightings of this...

Alan Watts opens up about Religion - yet misses the main point!

 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avN_gQ7NC0I

 

No! Nothing is new under the Sun. Blind religious faith ultimately results in delusional psychosis and avid fundamentalism is the greatest evil. 

The entire manmade annual schedule of Jesus Christ (i.e., the latest mythical invention of a redeemer/saviour figure) is transparently based on the far earlier Pagan agricultural calendar of the year.

The power-hungry Church simply hijacked earlier Pagan feast days, traditions and native customs and made th...

Dignified Withdrawal or Rats and Sinking Ships?

 

Two discontented Southport councillors leave the Tory Party. 

OTS News has today (13/5.2022)  reported that Ainsdale’s Terry Jones and Cambridge’s Sinclair D’Albuquerque will form what they are calling “The Southport Councillor Group”.

Full story on OTS News... 
https://www.otsnews.co.uk/two-sefton-councillors-leave-conservative-group/ 
I have no dealings with Sinclair D’Albuquerque but Cllr Jones is a person who has crossed my path before.

Terry Jones, has previously roundly attacked Tory policies ...

Extinction level event close - thanks to mankind’s stupidity?

 

How far away is an extinction level event - thanks to mankind’s constant stupidity?

So, is this how far the trusted experts in the respected fields of science and politics have got us? Is this what they call progress?
https://english.pravda.ru/news/world/151327-boris_johnson_nuclear/ 

The war-mongering buffoons in power everywhere will destroy us and the rest of this wonderful planet! The public en-masse should rise up and say ‘No – enough is enough’!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4eJvwtQJu4

It’...

Strange Black line in the sky over Ainsdale Nature Reserve

 

So, are we under military attack or is it an alien invasion? Sorry, the explanation is not quite so dramatic.

This bizarre phenomenon is caused by aircraft condensation trails, some 30 000 feet above densities of stratocumulus cloud, casting a shadow on the cloud layer below.