How to build a bird box
With natural nesting sites in decline, adding a nestbox to your garden can make all the difference to your local birds.
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Hedgehog home building at The Woolpack
Join Suffolk Wildlife Trust at The Woolpack Pub to build a hedgehog home. Why not stop for a meal or a drink before or afterwards!
How to build a bat box
Build your own bat box and give a bat a safe place to roost.
How to build a swift box
Swifts like to leave their nests by dropping into the air from the entrance. This is why they often choose to set up camp in the eaves of buildings. If you have a wall that's at least five…
Common box
Common box grows in woodlands and scrub in southern England, with notable populations in the Chilterns, Cotswolds and North Downs. A familiar evergreen tree, it has shiny, dark green, oval leaves…
Bug home building at The Woolpack pub
Join Suffolk Wildlife Trust at the Woolpack pub to build a bug home to take away with you. Why not stop for a cold drink afterwards!
Bird nest boxes
As our environments have changed, birds and bats have suffered from a lack of suitable natural breeding sites, so the addition of a nesting or roost box can be a welcome refuge.
Nest box map form
Please add your nest box locations to our map.
Carlton Marshes Visitor Centre receives building awards
We're delighted that Carlton Marshes was recognised at the East Suffolk Quality of Place Awards with a 'Green Commendation' and 'Highly Commended' in the Community…
Hammers at the ready! Join us for National Nest Box Week 2023
To celebrate National Nest box Week 2023 we will be running nest box building sessions for families and adults across our reserves and Ipswich Green Spaces. Lucy Shepherd, our Wilder Communities…
Box tree moth
This moth first arrived in the UK in 2007 and has rapidly spread throughout England.