Common chickweed
Look for the small, white, star-shaped flowers of Common chickweed all year-round. Sometimes considered a 'weed', it is still a valuable food source for insects.
Look for the small, white, star-shaped flowers of Common chickweed all year-round. Sometimes considered a 'weed', it is still a valuable food source for insects.
As its name suggests, quaking-grass can be seen quivering or 'quaking' in a breezy, summer wildflower meadow. Its purple-and-green, heart-shaped flower heads hang from delicate stems.…
Living up to its name, the hairy violet is covered in fine hairs. Look for its delicate, violet flowers blooming from March to June on chalk grasslands, in particular.
Heralding spring, a carpet of sunshine-yellow lesser celandine flowers is a joy to see on a woodland walk. Look out for it along hedgerows, in parks and even in graveyards, too, from March onwards…
As we look forward to the start of the 2020 Osprey season, we reflect on the record breaking year we had in 2019!
It has now been 37 days since Maya laid the first egg on 30th March and we are looking forward to welcoming the first chick. Read the latest news here.
The UK’s wildlife continues to decline according to the State of Nature 2019 report.
Fourteen barn owl chicks have been recorded at Cossington Meadows Nature Reserve, beating the previous record of 12 in 2019!
I am a marketing and communications assistant for the Lincolnshire Wildlife Trust. My role involves managing the social media pages and website, and even taking a lead on marine comms for the…
What another fantastic season we have had this year! 19 chicks have successfully fledged from eight different nests and we have seen 30 adults return either to the Rutland area or elsewhere,…
A large hawker, the Common Hawker can be seen throughout the summer and into autumn. A fast-flying insect, it catches its prey mid-air. Look for it around ponds in the uplands of the north and…