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    Tawny owl by Beverley Carpenter

    Suffolk Wildlife Trust is Suffolk’s nature charity – the only organisation dedicated to safeguarding Suffolk’s wildlife and countryside.

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    Signs to hides at Lackford Lakes

    John Ferguson

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    Volunteers tree planting - Sarah Groves

    Volunteers tree planting - Sarah Groves

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Species

Chalkhill blue female © Tom Hibbert

Trees and shrubs

Stalks of bog myrtle, with clusters of yellowish-brown catkins

Bog-myrtle

Waxwing feeding on Cotoneaster berries in supermarket car park

Cotoneaster

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Field elm

Bilberry

Bilberry

Alder leaf

Alder

Alder Buckthorn

Alder buckthorn

Ash

Ash

Aspen

Aspen

Bird Cherry

Bird cherry

Black Poplar

Black poplar

Blackthorn

Blackthorn

Broom

Broom

Red Admiral on Buddleia

Buddleia

Common Beech

Common beech

Common Box

Common box

Gorse

Common gorse

Common Hawthorn

Common hawthorn

Common Hornbeam

Common hornbeam

Common Juniper

Common juniper

Common Laburnum

Common laburnum

Common Lime

Common lime

Common Osier

Common osier

Common Walnut

Common walnut

Common Whitebeam

Common whitebeam

Crab Apple

Crab apple

Crack Willow

Crack willow

Dog-rose

Dog-rose

Dogwood

Dogwood

Downy Birch

Downy birch

Elderflower (c) Alexandrumagurean

Elder

English Elm

English elm

English Oak

English oak

European Larch

European larch

Field Maple

Field maple

Goat Willow

Goat willow

Grey Willow

Grey willow

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