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I think Fleetwood is just an amazing space and place.
It's right on the corner of the Fylde Coast coming up from Blackpool and Cleveleys and on the corner with Morecambe and Morecambe Bay starts here, and heads right down and round and all the way back up to pass Morecambe back up to the late district. You can actually view the whole of Morecambe Bay.
You can look out over to the Irish Sea. You can sometimes see the Isle of Man. And that unique location gives it unique wildlife and heritage. And so the whole of Mor bay and the Wyre Estuary itself. Are protected because of the different combinations of wildflowers and the dunes of the birds and the Marine mammals and the Marine wildlife, and the invertebrates are all used in this area.
So the sort of things you might see that you wouldn't see everywhere else would be if you're very, very lucky, you might see, Dunlin nesting on our beaches here in the. July August time of the year.
You'd also find sand dunes coming and going all the time, because they're affected by the storms and the weather of the tide here at Fleetwood. And you'll see wonderful flowers like sea holly - Eryngium is its Latin name. It's got beautiful blue spiky flowers, absolutely fantastic for bees and butterflies and just, it's just so common in Fleetwood.
So if you're a local to Fleetwood, we say, “oh, we can see that everywhere” but you wouldn't see it in other parts of, of the British countryside so easily, cuz it requires the moving, uh, nature of the dunes to, to live on.
On the other side of our promenade. We've got the golf course here at Fleetwood, and we've got the coastal grasslands heading back down towards Marine Hall and the Mount. All of those are sort of remnant, sand dunes and, um, coastal grassland. So we've got lots of unique, different plants, um, that are using the coast grasslands, but because of that green space and the blue space and the yellow space of the dunes, it's wonderful for migrating birds. And then with it being on this, on this sort of point, literally on a point in between two big water bodies, um, sort of the Irish Sea uh, Liverpool bay and Morecambe Bay, then we've got birds migrating across and to, and from our area.
Some of them come to stay here, cuz they think it's a great place to have their young here and then head back. But they're heading between the African continent and Iceland in Greenland and, and Scotland all the way up through and stopping off and resting here. And you will see very unique things that have just got mixed up and they end up, you know, American birds have ended up here, all sorts of strange things.
And that's when we see lots of people with binoculars and telescopes, but just normally, thousands and thousands of birds are flying backwards and forwards and using this place to roost and to rest and to feed. And so you can get such close up views. You can hear skylarks singing, just behind us here on the golf course.
You can also see, um, A whole range of assemblage of birds, hundreds, and thousands of them who are using the beach, the water's edge to feed and probe into the mud flats of Morecambe Bay.
I think Fleetwood is just an amazing space and place. I think both it's it's community who really love their town and their area so much, and the heritage that it's got within it, the built heritage. And it's the reason why it's such an amazing place for wildlife and, and being so unique is its location.
