New colour 'Welcome' signs installed at Castle Hills Wood. Following the 'Standard Estate Signage August 2018' the roll out of new signs has been completed by a volunteer at the Castle Hills Wood and adjacent Four Lane Ends Wood near Consett in County Durham. Other...
Catalogue of wild flowers in the meadow at Nunsbrough Wood, near Hexham, Northumberland. Early June 2019 saw another field trip day by one of our local schools. The main task of the day was to catalogue the wild flowers found in the meadow at the East...
June sees us see au revoir to Volunteer Development Officer, Anna Claxton, who is off on maternity leave from Friday 21st June, planning to return in March 2020. This is very exciting and we are delighted to welcome Lucy Shea to look after all things...
[video width="1920" height="1080" mp4="https://whittle.woodlandtrust.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/Badger-sitting-scratching.mp4"][/video] Thanks to Tim Hewke, Wildlife Monitor (and Warden) in Kent for this fab video! Bet the badger felt good afterwards! Thanks also to Kentish Warden, Rob Lyne, for some more stunning flora findings. This time, we can enjoy pictures of greater butterfly orchids and...
After a night of heavy rain, yet another Dartmoor deluge, I’m waiting in the Postbridge car park to meet David Leach. He is the Dartmoor Peatland Restoration Project Officer and, after introductions, we get kitted up for a two-mile trudge in full waterproofs to check...
Would you like to share your volunteering experiences on Whittle? Fourteen Scotland volunteers have signed up as volunteer Whittle reporters, so that they can share news from their volunteering roles, but also general woodland and wildlife stories that they want to share with you all. The volunteers'...
My main task as a threat detector is to review planning applications for any potential risk to ancient woodland. However, I have also taken on the additional task of reviewing Local Development Plans (LDPs). These plans set out a Council’s development aims for the coming...
There is still time to book on to this exciting guided walk for Woodland Trust volunteers. The Woodland Trust is holding a guided walk for volunteers on Saturday 13th July at Sutton Park, Sutton Coldfield from 1.30-4pm. Click here for more details or visit the event...
Observatree Training in Wales - 7 June 2019 What is Observatree? Observatree is an award winning collaborative project between Forest Research, Forestry England, Scottish Forestry, APHA, Defra, Fera Science Ltd, the National Trust, Natural Resources Wales and the Woodland Trust. Using citizen science the project aims to...
A group of volunteers at Langley Vale Wood recently became detectives when they were out at a training session for their bird monitoring group one morning and a helicopter appeared extremely low to the ground...