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Common whitethroat

Breeding bird surveys at Strawberry Hill

Breeding bird surveys at Strawberry Hill have many challenges, as despite the huge amount of birdlife, you see hardly any of them. Our favourite exceptions to this are the male whitethroats which…

Rare Species Guardians

Rare Species Guardians Project

Read about the Rare Species Guardians project, which has been running in partnership with Bedfordshire Natural History Society and The Greensand Trust

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 . . .

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...

Bluebells in Waresley & Gransden Woods

Monitoring Our Woodland Nature Reserves

Siân Williams, Senior Monitoring and Research Officer, gives an overview of habitat monitoring and a new method the team have been trialing to assess the condition of our woodland sites.

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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