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Surveying banks during extreme heat days

Banking on Butterflies – one year on

Matt Hayes, PhD student and Wildlife Trust BCN Trustee, gives an update on how this innovative project has fared in the year following the banks being built.

Blackbird with nest material, sparrowhawk, cuckoo and moorhen feeding chick

Bird surveys on nature reserves

Find out more about breeding bird surveys on Wildlife Trust nature reserves, what they can tell us, and how to get involved

Daubenton's bat

On bat patrol at Pitsford

On a bat survey at Pitsford Water nature reserve after extreme heat, Volunteer Officer Isabella Clarke detects an eerie silence . . .

Thick legged flower beetle (Christine Newell)

Meet the Volunteer - Christine Newell

Christine Newell explains how she became a volunteer with our Trust and all the various projects she has become involved with and remains fascinated by

Wildflowers in bloom at Blow's Downs

Mapping habitats on our nature reserves

Siân Williams, Senior Monitoring and Research Officer, reports on creating detailed digital maps of the habitats on our nature reserves, and how these maps are being used to tell us more not just…

Cranefly - JS

Northamptonshire's Craneflies

John Showers, Northants County Diptera recorder, gives an insight into Craneflies, and the recording scheme, and hopes to encourage more people to learn about these fascinating insects.

Slow worm survey -Sharon Stilliard By Gwen Hitchcock

Meet the Volunteer - Sharon Stilliard

Sharon Stilliard has been volunteering with the Wildlife Trust for nearly 15 years and was a joint winner of the 2021 Oliver Rackham Award at this years AGM. Find out how she got involved with…

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...

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