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Female purple hairstreak highlighted by sunlight, perched on a green leaf

Monitoring Purple Hairstreak at Strawberry Hill

This summer, the butterfly recording team at Strawberry Hill in Bedfordshire monitored the population of Purple Hairstreak using a new method. This method was introduced by the UK Butterfly…

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…

Singing wren sitting on branch in bloom.

Breeding birds top ten

Sian Williams, Senior Monitoring and Research Officer, provides a brief summary of the top ten breeding bird species recorded on our breeding bird transects over the last 10 years.

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