2015 tours:
* Sun 5 July, General safari (3pm, Victoria Station wallmap).
* Sun 6 Sep, Irwell & Pomona (2pm, Victoria Station wallmap).
Manchester is home to a wide variety of wildlife: waterbirds, waders, black redstarts (rarer than ospreys or golden eagles) and peregrine falcons. These are the world’s fastest birds, capable of reaching 120mph in a dive, and they are culling the city’s pigeons.
Join Steve Bourne for a city safari. Please bring some binoculars!
If you don’t fancy a walk, book a talk. What a great idea for your social club, U3A group, Probus set, National Trust outfit, local history society; to book New Manchester Walks’ Ed Glinert to give an illustrated talk on one of a huge variety of subjects. He had 65 people at Central Library for the Town Hall Murals recently and about 150 at Knutsford Methodist Church for Marx & Engels in Manchester.
Glinert is the most entertaining, best informed and wittiest public speaker on the circuit, armed with remarkable stories and unforgettable pictures, and has been a fixture on the talks scene for a number of years, giving regular presentations at Central Library, Gorton Monastery, the St James’s Club and the Portico Library.
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