Weekly wild news from our reserves – 3 December 2021
This week our reserves teams saw a ring-tailed hen harrier and were busy milling ash and restoring heathland whilst many reserves got a sprinkling of snow.
This week our reserves teams saw a ring-tailed hen harrier and were busy milling ash and restoring heathland whilst many reserves got a sprinkling of snow.
This week our reserve teams have been full steam ahead with reserve management; coppicing, dead hedging, restoring a pond, restructuring scrub and creating wheelchair access to our new hide.
This week our reserve teams and volunteers built a muntjac barricade, saw several snow buntings, a feathered thorn moth and more fabulous fungi.
This week our reserve teams saw a great white egret, a flock of lapwing, a ruby tiger caterpillar, fabulous fungi and the first frost. They also got stuck in managing willow and weaving a dead…
This week our reserve teams solved an owl pellet mystery, found a rare moth and saw some exceptionally early signs of spring as they continued with essential habitat management.
The latest news from our reserve teams, this week they saw an otter catch an eel, a 'bleeding' beefsteak fungus, a hazel leaf-roller weevil, bearded tit, curlew, red kite and lots more…
This week our reserve teams saw leopard slugs mating, an otter family, a jack snipe, a hornets nest and lots more autumn wildlife.
This week our cattle had a manicure and we spotted wonderful autumn wildlife including starling murmurations, fungi and migrating geese.
This week our Reserve Teams saw a marbled orb weaver spider, a burying beetle, green fungi and lots more magnificent moths.
This week, our volunteers have been making hay while the sun shines, there’s tonnes of toads and mega numbers of marvellous moths.