Beautiful demoiselle
Beautiful demoiselle’s are, well, beautiful! Often confused for a dragonfly, these giants of the damselfly world are hard to miss with their metallic blue and green colours.
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Beautiful butterflies and Lackford dragons (dragonflies / damselflies)
As we move into the middle of summer at Lackford Lakes we enter the time when our smaller creatures become really active around the reserve. This update will focus on our beautiful butterflies…
Week one of 30 Days Wild - Guerrilla chalking, goblin gloves and gooseberry jellies
Wild Learning Officer, Lucy, starts the first week of 30 Days Wild and shares what our members of staff have been getting up to this week.
Duck blog part 2
During the winter months at Lackford Lakes nature reserve, visitors will see thousands of ducks on the lakes. They arrive during the autumn from northern Europe to spend the winter. At this time…
Celebrating our volunteers - Matt, Jo and Laura
In the past year, over 1,360 volunteers have contributed nearly 68,300 hours of volunteering time and we are celebrating the fantastic difference our volunteers make for wildlife in Suffolk. Thank…
Week one of 30 Day Wild - Barefoot beach strolls, ogling at gooseberry jellies, nightjar churring and mindfulness on the marshes
It’s been a jam-packed week of 30 Days Wild “random acts of wildness” with lots of activity across the county from Suffolk Wildlife Trust’s staff team. Lucy, our Wild Learning Officer, is looking…
Celebrating our volunteers - Matt Clarke's story
National Volunteer Week is in June and so this month we will be celebrating the fantastic difference our volunteers make for wildlife in Suffolk. In 2019, over 1360 volunteers have contributed…
Winter Duck blog part 1
During the winter months at Lackford Lakes nature reserve, visitors will see thousands of ducks on the lakes. They arrive during the autumn from northern Europe to spend the winter. At this time…
Suffolk Coastal Reserves Blog - February 2020
Find out what's been happening across our coastal nature reserves with Warden Dan Doughty's blog.
Jelly ear
As the name suggests, this fungus looks uncannily like an ear!
Suffolk Coastal Reserves Blog - November 2020
All eyes have been on Dingle Marshes in November with the surprise arrival of Suffolk’s third ever recorded greater yellowlegs that had found its way to us from across the pond.
Suffolk Coastal Reserves Blog - October 2020
October brought wet and windy weather along with some fine autumn arrivals and a spectacular starling murmuration.