Coastal and floodplain grazing marsh
Enormous flocks of geese, ducks and swans swirl down from wide skies to drop onto the flat, open expanses of flooded grazing marshes in winter. In spring, lapwing tumble overhead and the soft,…
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Grayling
The grayling is one of our largest brown butterflies and a master of disguise - its cryptic colouring helps to camouflage it against bare earth and stones in its coastal habitats and on inland…
Growing up Wild
Growing up wild is a campaign by Suffolk Wildlife Trust to create a memory bank of people's childhood experiences of nature that can be shared to inspire families to spend more time in the wild spaces where they live.
An Introduction to Botanical Drawing
Join professional botanical artist, illustrator and tutor, Ruth Wharrier, for an introductory day to this fascinating and beautiful art form
Level 2 Botanical Drawing
6 day course over four months, covering six modules. Quality endorsed by awarding body, AIM qualifications
Growing Up Wild: coming soon to a town near you
Suffolk Wildlife Trust’s campaign to create and share memories of growing up wild outside will be on tour throughout the autumn.
Ponies on our nature reserves
As tempting as it is to approach our conservation grazing ponies, please respect the vital work they are doing for wildlife and keep your distance. Our Grazing Manager, Jane Barber, explains why…
Orange-clubbed sea slug
A small colourful sea slug that can be found grazing on sea mats on the rocky shore and beyond the low water mark.
Flowering lawns
Cathy Smith explores how your lawn can become a wild flower meadow.
Garden lawns can resemble semi-natural grassland with flowering plants making a mosaic of low growing plants which are…
Hairy dragonfly
The UK's smallest hawker, the hairy dragonfly is mostly black in colour, but has a distinctively hairy thorax. It can be found in grazing marshes and flooded gravel pits, and along canals…
Water vole
Suffolk has a great resource of potential water vole habitat with river valleys, coastal grazing marshes, ponds, ditches, lakes, fens, and reedbeds.
New cattle corral at Hen Reedbeds
Thanks to funding from Suffolk Coast and Heaths Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, we now have a new cattle corral for our conservation grazing cattle at Hen Reedbeds.