Blog: Gwen Hitchcock

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Strawberry Hill

It Takes a Village: Two Years on at Strawberry Hill

It’s been a little over two years since we took on Strawberry Hill and with your help we have managed to successfully raise the funds to secure the whole site to protect the amazing wildlife for…

Slow worm

Settling Slow Worms

It’s been over 10 years since the Luton-Dunstable Guided busway was built. In that time Wildlife Trust BCN staff and volunteers have been monitoring the slow worm populations that were moved from…

Strawberry Hill

Our first year at Strawberry Hill

It’s been just over a year since we took over Strawberry Hill, Beds, and we’ve not been idle. We’ve spent much of this first year focusing on surveying the site to learn more about the species…

Orchid survey

Surveying during Covid - take 2!

An update on how how we've been safely conducting our surveys during the second survey season of the pandemic...

Mammal tracks and Signs

Tracks & signs

Detecting who has been visiting from the signs they leave behind

Dormouse survey by Katharine Banham

Surveys during Covid

As lockdown has eased find out how we've managed to get some of our survey work back up and running whilst staying safe....

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Planning ahead...

Usually at this time of year we’d be contacting all our Ecology Group volunteers with details of what surveys are running this year that you can get involved with. Sadly the current Covid-19…

Dormouse footprint tunnel

Looking for dormouse footprints

Gwen Hitchcock, Monitoring and Research Officer, reports on the results from the footprint tunnel project

Dormouse by Tom Marshall

Volunteers needed for a new dormice survey!

This summer we will be using a new, non-invasive technique - footprint tunnels - to look for dormice in a Northamptonshire woodland. Local volunteers will be needed on the ground but volunteers…

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