Fir and Pond Woods
A diverse woodland reserve that features a meadow dotted with ancient ant hills and a medieval fish pond.
A diverse woodland reserve that features a meadow dotted with ancient ant hills and a medieval fish pond.
An opportunity to get out and connect with your local nature reserve...
An opportunity to get out and connect with your local nature reserve...
Fir clubmoss is a primitive plant found in rocky, moorland and mountain habitats. The stems of this tufted, upright fern look like tiny conifers.
A common spider of heathland and grassland, the Nursery web spider has brown and black stripes running the length of its body. It is an active hunter, only using its silk to create a protective…
Have you ever seen those dark red jelly blobs whilst rockpooling? These incredible creatures are beadlet anemones! They live attached to rocks all around the coast of the UK, the base of their…
The best thing you can do to help wildlife in your patch is to create a pond. People and Wildlife Officer, Josh Kalms explains why and how.
The common pond skater can be seen 'skating' over the surface of ponds, lakes, ditches and slow-moving rivers. It is predatory, feeding on small insects by detecting vibrations in the…
A tussocky sedge, Greater pond sedge has stout, upright flower spikes, strap-like leaves and triangular stems. It prefers lowland wetland habitats on heavy soils.
Local Wildlife Sites (LWS) are havens for wild species. In this blog, we explain how they are protected.
A wildlife pond is one of the single best features for attracting new wildlife to the garden.
Even a small pond can be home to an interesting range of wildlife, including damsel and dragonflies, frogs and newts.