Weekly wild news from our reserves - 1 July 2022
This week our reserve team discovered rare wasps, a bee with trousers, a female stag beetle and a giant fungus which smells of watermelon. Meanwhile a new bench and access ramp were installed, and…
Starlings at Lackford Lakes - Mike Andrews
This week our reserve team discovered rare wasps, a bee with trousers, a female stag beetle and a giant fungus which smells of watermelon. Meanwhile a new bench and access ramp were installed, and…
This week our reserves are buzzing with life! Highlights include barn owl, marsh harrier and ringed plover fledglings, swifts soaring, a little dark bee and masses of wildflowers.
It's been an exciting week across our reserves, with pochard ducklings and garganey at Trimley Marshes, female marsh harriers clashing at Castle Marshes, swift eggs hatching at Lackford Lakes…
It's the season for wildflowers and insects galore. Our reserve teams have seen a variety of orchids, moths, a snipe fly, a wasp beetle, a long horn moth and lots more...
This week our reserve wardens saw a tiny fawn, amorous bugs, a dazzling ruby tailed wasp and beautiful wildflowers including water violet, cotton grass, flag iris and lots more...
This week has been packed full of wildlife, with hobbies, water voles, marsh harriers and a bittern. Also exciting insects including a green hairstreak butterfly, drinker moth, four spotted…
This week more special wildlife was recorded, with rare shepherd's cress, a ringed China-mark moth, turtle dove and nightingale. Also woodland wildflowers and orchids were seen, and a grass…
It was a week of rare and unusual wildlife, with a snorkelling stick insect, first record of a wall brown, soprano pipistrelle bats, nightingale melodies and luscious woodland flowers...
This week our reserve teams spotted more marvellous spring wildlife, with reptiles and amphibians breeding and basking, skylarks singing and a first black tern. They also installed cattle gates,…
This week our reserve teams recorded gorgeous signs of spring across the county, with a cuckoo and a cuckooflower, a grasshopper warbler and woodland wildflowers. They also discovered some amazing…