Bat Walk at Waterford Heath
Discover about the bats of Waterford Heath ...
Discover about the bats of Waterford Heath ...
One of a very few patches of surviving heathland in Hertfordshire which supports a special mix of wildlife.
A locally rare open habitat in Hertfordshire, where grizzled skipper butterflies feed on wild strawberry.
A community group in Hertford have raised more than £100,000 to create a new nature reserve with Herts and Middlesex Wildlife Trust.
Beane Marsh Nature Reserve in Hertford is set to thrive thanks to another successful fundraising drive by the local community.
Following a theft in November, the newly replaced entry gates at Waterford Heath Nature Reserve have been stolen again last week.
The small heath is the smallest of our brown butterflies and has a fluttering flight. It favours heathlands, as its name suggests, as well as other sunny habitats.
The rare heath fritillary was on the brink of extinction in the 1970s, but conservation action turned its fortunes around. It is still confined to a small number of sites in the south of England,…
The Heath bumblebee is not only found on heathland, but also in gardens and parks. It nests in small colonies of less than 100 workers in all kinds of spots, such as old birds' nests, mossy…
The pretty Deptford pink is a very rare flower that is very vulnerable to the loss of our traditional grassland and farmland habitats. It can only be found in a few places in England and Wales.…
The small, brown Dartford warbler is most easily spotted when warbling its scratchy song from the top of a gorse stem. It lives on lowland heathland in the south of England, where it nests on the…