Suffolk Wildlife Trust Blogs

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…

Today is the last day of January and the month ends on a very wintery note at the lakes. We have seen 83 bird species in the month / year so far including some nice birds like brambling, lesser…

Otters and Short-eared owls are being seen regularly at Carlton and Oulton Marshes, as well as good numbers of Wigeon, Lapwing and Pink-footed Geese. Read on for wildlife and reserve management…

Two lovely community gardens in Ipswich are helping their local hedgehog populations thrive, and are encouraging their local communities to do the same!

The change in the weather these past few days has meant a busier time for our smaller birds around the reserve as they spend more time look for food. This also means a busier time at our feeders…

The following is running commentary taken from various wildlife guides scattered around the Kingfisher trail on Sunday 13th January 2019 during our Bedtime at Lackford event.

We are only three days into the New Year and we have recorded 70 species of birds on the reserve. There are plenty of ducks and small birds around reserve at the moment.

As we enter a new year I thought I'd reflect on our hedgehog action in 2018 - together we’ve achieved great things for our local hedgehog populations, and I hope you will join me in aiming…

It’s Christmas eve and for our last day of this series we’ve decided to swap the 12 drummers drumming for 12 woodpecker drummers drumming.

For day 11 of our 12 days of (a wildlife) Christmas we’ll be heading to pipers vale to see what wintery wildlife we can find.