New bird hide at Tewin Orchard
Tewin Orchard has a new bird hide!
Tewin Orchard has a new bird hide!
A visit to a traditional orchard reveals gnarled old trunks of fruit and nut trees bursting with blossoms and young leaves in springtime, with wildflowers and insects populating summer’s long…
This traditional village orchard has locally distinct fruit varieties and is home to a wonderful array of wildlife
Over 1,000 people celebrated the apple harvest at Tewin Orchard on Sunday at our annual Apple Day.
Thanks to a generous funding boost from the Environment Agency, Herts and Middlesex Wildlife Trust is able to undertake a large-scale restoration project to improve and conserve a number of…
As part of a project partnership in the Colne Valley, Herts and Middlesex Wildlife Trust has secured funding to conserve the single water vole population in the Colne Valley.
A £500,000 fundraising appeal by Herts and Middlesex Wildlife Trust to buy and manage Archers Green, home to a globally rare habitat, near Welwyn Garden City, is being given a major boost by the…
The once-common pochard is now under threat because its populations are declining rapidly. The UK is an important winter destination for the pochard, with 48,000 birds visiting our wetlands and…
The bee orchid is a sneaky mimic - the flower’s velvety lip looks like a female bee. Males fly in to try to mate with it and end up pollinating the flower. Sadly, the right bee species doesn’t…
This unassuming orchid is easily overlooked. It is found patchily across the UK, but has been declining for decades.
The Pyramidal orchid lives up to its name - look for a bright pinky-purple, densely packed pyramid of flowers atop a green stem. It likes chalk grassland, sand dunes, roadside verges and quarries…