Exploring meadows with our Rangers
Over the past few weeks, our Nature Rangers and Young Rangers at Low Barns (funded by believe housing) have been exploring meadows – learning about the plants in them and the invertebrate species…
Over the past few weeks, our Nature Rangers and Young Rangers at Low Barns (funded by believe housing) have been exploring meadows – learning about the plants in them and the invertebrate species…
Join Mary-Anne Rielly at Shibdon Pond for a guided wildflower walk through the beautiful hay meadow at Shibdon Pond.
The common prawn is a familiar sight to anyone who has spent time exploring rockpools - particularly their characteristic quick dart into the darkness just as you spot them!
In the drama of the open spaces around her, Emily can play the role of a lifetime. She knows the wildlife of the nature reserve as intimately as Yorick knew Hamlet, and with an audience of birds,…
On Skomer Island, Grace can set her own trends and live a life of adventure, from creating fashionable jewellery out of daisies to exploring the wild landscape.
Mixed habitat with grassland, woodland and wetland. Diverse range of wildflowers, butterflies and breeding birds.
Brush through a wildflower meadow at the height of summer and you'll hear the tiny seeds of yellow-rattle rattling in their brown pods, hence its name.
At night, the pretty, white blooms of white campion produce a heady scent, attracting feeding moths. Look for this wildflower along hedgerows and roadside verges, and on waste ground.
Farmland can conjure up rural images of brown hares zig-zagging across fields, chattering flocks of finches and yellowhammers singing from thick, bushy hedges and field margins studded with…
These are the atmospheric oak woods of the Celtic upland fringes, where the mild, moist oceanic climate allows luxurious mats of mosses to carpet the rocky ground and creep up gnarled trunks,…
As its name suggests, quaking-grass can be seen quivering or 'quaking' in a breezy, summer wildflower meadow. Its purple-and-green, heart-shaped flower heads hang from delicate stems.…
An important component of the Tyne Valley Wildlife Corridor with a variety of wildflowers and birds.
The neutral grassland has an abundance of wildflowers including meadowseet and spotted…