
Weekly wild news from our reserves – 29 January 2021
This week we kept warm around the fire sledge, Gunton Meadow had a tidy up, our British white cattle got some extra hay, and there was more snow and flooding.
Starlings at Lackford Lakes - Mike Andrews
This week we kept warm around the fire sledge, Gunton Meadow had a tidy up, our British white cattle got some extra hay, and there was more snow and flooding.
This week our brilliant volunteers helped maintain open habitat for nightjar, and we saw a cluster of great white egrets, some lovely lichen fruits and fungi and a quite a variety of weather…
This week, great results from heathland recreation work, new bee hotels at Lackford Lakes and a handsome parasitic wasp....
This week saw some extremely wet wildlife, a fallen giant, exciting feathered visitors to Carlton Marshes and fungi resembling a banana!
Christmas is in the air and here in Ipswich we’re starting to feel festive. Join our Wild Learning Officer in the run up to Christmas by celebrating some of the town’s wild spaces and species as…
This week saw more wintry scenes, our brilliant volunteers returned to Redgrave & Lopham Fen, and the Konik ponies were engulfed in mist.
This week Bradfield Woods looked magical in the snow, we installed a new bird feeding station, saw an amazing lichen-covered oak and some surprising snaps from our nature reserves!
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.
This week: our amazing coppicing volunteers return to Bradfield Woods, a great white egret and some frosty and misty scenes.
Winter at Lackford has its many moods and this year has been no different. As we have moved into winter, we have already experienced cold crisp sunshine, moody misty mornings, and frosty frozen…