Common pipistrelle
The common pipistrelle is so small, it can fit into a matchbox! Despite its size, it can easily eat 3,000 insects a night: look for it flitting around the garden or a lit lamp post as it chases…
The common pipistrelle is so small, it can fit into a matchbox! Despite its size, it can easily eat 3,000 insects a night: look for it flitting around the garden or a lit lamp post as it chases…
It was a week of rare and unusual wildlife, with a snorkelling stick insect, first record of a wall brown, soprano pipistrelle bats, nightingale melodies and luscious woodland flowers...
Andrew Excell, our South East Suffolk Sites Manager, remembers Ernie Lucking.
Once widespread, this attractive plant has declined as a result of modern agricultural practices and is now only found in four sites in South East England.
We are hosting a number of volunteer recruitment days across our sites pop in and learn about what we have to offer.
This week our Reserve Wardens have been taking a closer look at some of the flora that grows on our sites, and Trimley Marshes gets a trim, attracting a whole host of different bird species.
Large scale drainage in the UK has seen a massive reduction in the range of this sensitive aquatic plant which now only occurs in around 50 sites in England.