Wading into autumn
For many birdwatchers things are just hotting up! We might be reaching the end of summer, but this is when a group of birds known as waders start to appear on our shores. Here are ten waders to…
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Top autumn reserves
Top autumn reserves
Autumn gentian
A late-flowering plant, Autumn gentian displays pretty, mauve, tube-like flowers atop its reddish stems. It favours dry, chalk grassland and sand dune habitats.
Woodland
Our woodlands are a key tool in the box when addressing climate change for their carbon storage potential, but are less well known for their potential to limit flooding events, with wet woodlands…
Autumn Forest School Upskilling
For anyone who is involved in Forest School sessions at their setting, refresh and improve your skills in our autumn session.
Autumn in the wildlife garden
With autumn now upon us, we thought it would be useful to share some interesting and useful advice from our bird food partner, Vine House Farm, for anyone with a wildlife garden – or indeed anyone…
Wet woodland
Wet woodlands in the UK can be wild, secretive places. Tangles of trailing creepers, tussocky sedges and lush tall-herbs conceal swampy pools and partially submerged fallen willow trunks, likely…
Create a leaf hedgehog for autumn
Create your own hedgehog out of leaves for autumn.
Autumn spectacles in Essex
Essex Wildlife Trust share some of their top nature reserves to visit this season.
The woodland drummers
Meet the dawn chorus’s percussion section…
Local Wildlife Sites
Local Wildlife Sites are areas of land that are especially important for their wildlife. They are some of our most valuable wildlife areas.
Dementia friendly walks at Belfairs Woodland Centre
Belfairs Woodland Centre is helping to get people living with dementia outside in nature.