
Dr Cath's Nature Notes - January 2024
This month I’m hoping for some cold, crisp days when I can get out to the mosses.
This month I’m hoping for some cold, crisp days when I can get out to the mosses.
With the shorter days and colder weather, December is perhaps a month for staying nearer home, so this month I’m looking at gardens as a wildlife habitat. It’s a good time to plan what you might…
Luke Neal, Technical Manager in SWT’s Land & Water team, has won the Marsh Charitable Trust’s 2023 award for Leadership and Innovation in Nature Recovery
In celebration of National Tree Week we explore The Hollies as winter begins to take hold. This nature reserve contains a scattered grove of holly trees, some of which are three or four centuries…
This month I’m rambling along the hedgerows. The pastoral landscape of England is defined by hedges – something rarely seen in the rest of the world – and Shropshire is well-blessed with them.
It is deeply disappointing, but not surprising, that Shropshire Council’s planning committee have voted by the narrowest of majorities to go ahead with the North West Relief Road. SWT submitted a…
This Halloween, discover some of our most spooktacular species.
Birch trees are among the first to start showing their autumn colours – tinged with yellow even in September, and soon to be dropping a golden carpet of fallen leaves. I’m heading out in October…
National Mammal Week 2023 is taking place from 9th-15th October, hot on the heels of Red Squirrel Awareness Week. What a pleasure to celebrate our little-known British mammals!
There’s a great feeling of anticipation in birdwatching at this time of year. Passage migrants, by their very nature, are unpredictable, so you never know what you might see or where you might see…