Weekly wild news from our reserves blogs

Helen Bynum is a studying for a Masters in Ecology at the University of East Anglia. Working with our team at Martlesham Wilds nature…

Catch up on the latest news from our reserves. This week’s wildlife highlights were toads and toadlets, a devil’s coach horse, yellow…

This week we’ve seen summer and autumn rolled into one, with scorching days followed by downpours and misty mornings. Wildlife…

Your weekly update from our nature reserves. Our wardens have been finalising their reed topping and making hay, plus there have been…

As summer ends, our reserves are still full of wonderful wildlife. This week’s highlights were hundreds of toads, a wasp spider, fen…

Catch up on the latest news from our reserves. This week’s wildlife highlights were shimmery shield bugs, a great green bush cricket, a…

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Catch up on the latest news from our nature reserves. This week’s highlights were flowering heather, black tailed godwits and a white…

Catch up on the latest news from our reserves. This week’s highlights included a spoonbill, mating common blue butterflies, and a hornet…

Catch up on the latest news from our nature reserves. This week’s highlights were spectacular birds of prey, with a peregrine falcon…

Catch up on the latest news from our reserves. This week’s highlights were glow-worms, a southern hawker dragonfly, butterflies, and a…

Catch up on the latest news from our reserves. This week’s highlights were a ruby-tailed wasp, bee wolves, fresh butterflies, pyramidal…

Catch up on the latest news from our nature reserves. This week’s highlights were orchids, fledged marsh harriers, a gravid lizard and…

Catch up on the latest news from our nature reserves. This week’s wildlife highlights have been glow worms, nightjar, silver studded…

Catch up on the latest wildlife and activities from our nature reserves. This week’s highlights were viper’s bugloss, corn marigolds, a…

Summer has been hotting up across our nature reserves. This week, three swift chicks hatched in Lackford’s swift box, an adder was…

This week, our reserve teams have enjoyed some long-awaited spring sunshine. Our hides at Trimley Marshes have been repainted, we’ve…

There’s been so much going on at our nature reserves this week, from species surveys, fabulous fen flora, top bird spots and spring…

This week our reserves have seen rare passage waders, gorgeous orchids and other wildflowers, butterflies, mayflies, cinnamon bugs and…

It’s been another wildlife packed week across our reserves, with spotted flycatchers, bluebells, an otter, an amazing wasp and a bold…

This week our reserves have seen exciting birds including ring ouzel, short-eared owl, great spotted woodpecker, grasshopper warbler and…

It’s been another week full of wonderful wildlife across our reserves – with rare night herons, lapwing chicks, slow worms, a green…

Our reserves are bursting with spring wildlife this week, with a cuckoo calling, nightingale song and a willow warbler. Wildflowers…

Catch up on the latest news from our reserves - this week there have been lots more uplifting signs of spring; with migrant birds…

This week, our teams have been putting up temporary rope fencing to protect ground nesting birds with colleagues at Dunwich, litter-…

There have been signs of spring all over the county, with beautiful spring flowers and sightings of lizards and butterflies making the…

This week on our reserves, we’ve been completing winter bird surveys, laying some fine hedges, and finishing up the last of the winter…

We have two weeks’ worth of news in today’s round-up, and there’s been a lot happening in our nature reserves across Suffolk. Have you…

This week, we’ve been maintaining our woodland and reedbed reserves, working with young people to excite them about fascinating insects…

This week, our reserve teams have been soil sampling, creating new habitat for wading birds, building stag beetle pyramids and listening…

This week on our reserves, we’ve uncovered stag beetles at Newbourne Springs, watched a heron tackle an eel and made deadwood habitat at…

This week, our reserve teams have been repairing gates and fences, seeing the first signs of spring, breathing fresh life into overgrown…

This week’s wildlife highlights from our reserves include snow bunting, bearded tits, ram’s horn gall, wigeon, lapwing and snipe. The…

This week our wardens and volunteers have braved the freezing conditions for fence repairs, sluice works, herding ponies, gorse removal…

This week our wardens and volunteers have been managing reedbeds, protecting scrub and creating habitat for nightjar and woodlark. They…

This week our wardens have seen a magnificent moonset, a mystery gall, a wisp of snipe, early blossom, a bittern and lots more fabulous…

This week’s wildlife highlights were an otter, a buzzard, a water rail, and a heron in the frost. Our wardens have been hard at work…

Catch up on the latest news from our reserves. Our reserves have had some stunning frosts and scatterings of snow this week, and our…

There have been stunning views this week, whilst our wardens and volunteers have been busy with coppicing, tree safety work and…

This week our reserve wardens and volunteers have been busy restoring and maintaining fens and marshes, chainsaw training, and…

Catch up on the latest news from our reserves. This week’s wildlife highlights include magical murmurations, fungi, slime mould,…

This week has been packed full of exciting wildlife, including an otter cub, a devil’s coach horse, a marsh harrier, a tiny bee orchid,…

Catch up on our reserve wardens' blog. This week's wildlife highlights include a bold robin, a shy bittern, ethereal fungi and…

Catch up on the latest news from our nature reserves. This week our wardens and volunteers have been full steam ahead with autumn…

Catch up on our reserve wardens’ blog. This week features native ponies, fungi, a very long bee tunnel and some batty visitors. Carlton…

Catch up on the latest happenings across our reserves. This week’s wildlife highlights included a burying beetle, robin’s pincushion…

Catch up on the latest news from our reserve wardens. This week they’ve been focusing on fungi and colourful signs of autumn, whilst…

This week’s wildlife highlights from our reserve wardens included a rare orchid, a wild service tree, a short-eared owl, a jack snipe,…