Urban Wildlife Champions have been finding out how to support bats in towns and villages across Essex, at our free workshops funded by Eat Natural.
Check your bonfire and other tips for a wildlife-friendly 5 November.
Drivers and passengers asked to count bugs squashed on registration plates after a journey
This little cuttlefish really lives up to its name - it only reaches about 6cm long!
Listen up as the UK’s biggest nature-based challenge is about to begin.
The colourful and delightful chaffinch is a regular garden visitor across the UK. Look out for it hopping about on the ground under birdtables and hedges.
Flitting about the house in summer, the gangly, brown daddy longlegs is familiar to many of us. They are a valuable food source for many birds.
The melodious song of the nightingale is the most likely sign of this bird being about. Shy and secretive, it sings from dense scrub and woodland, day and night.
The shy dunnock can be seen hopping about under hedges as its other name, 'hedge sparrow', suggests. It inhabits gardens, woodlands, hedgerows and parks.
