A rarely seen butterfly, the purple hairstreak has been recorded in the Faughan Valley, in woodlands managed by The Woodland Trust Northern Ireland. We use transects to investigate changes in habitats rather than to simply estimate the number of organisms within it. Pam Hardeman, one of...
For many of us, the start of August marks the arrival of high summer, bringing long hot days and balmy nights and summer holidays! For most species of birds, it is a time of change. Both resident and migrant, the breeding season is all but...
Yes, it’s true! After a year’s maternity leave, I have returned; a surreal experience in that many things have changed and yet some things are exactly the same. I look forward to discovering more about what has been going on since June 2019, when I...
We would love to hear your stories on how you managed to connect with nature during lockdown. Please send over any photos with either a few paragraphs or a full article to amandabealing@woodlandtrust.org.uk and then I can publish the South West Stories on Whittle. So this...
Dear Ancient Tree Verifiers I hope you are all keeping well. Apologies that I have not been in touch with an update for a few weeks (is it just me or is the summer flying by?!). Ancient Tree Research Project Update: I am going to keep this update fairly...
Ian Riches is one of two fantastic and incredibly dedicated Woodland Working Group leaders at Kinclaven Bluebell Wood in Perthshire, Ian is also a Woodland Warden at Kinclaven and he has shared his lockdown experiences and some lovely photos from his beloved Kinclaven with us. ...
Thanks to funders, some 150,000 native trees will start to be planted over the next five years to create a new, large woodland next to the Gnoll Country Park in Neath. The site, currently called Brynau named after the small area of ancient wood that...
We wanted to share some excellent photos of insects that some of our fabulous wildlife monitor volunteers have shared with us over the past month. These are all taken in our Kent woods. Clouded Yellows mating at Hucking Estate, near [caption id="attachment_18008" align="aligncenter" width="300"] Clouded Yellows mating...
Juliet Wilson is a volunteer Super Campaigner with us and has written an article about how lockdown has given her time to connect with nature in some unusual places! Here is her interesting and very heartwarming piece: When lockdown was imposed and we were limited to...
in search of Fingle’s dormice, the footprint tracking study in Hall’s Cleave has continued through June and into July. We’ve had some good results so far this spring, demonstrating how these mini acrobats move around to find food through the season, and as their diet...