Water pipit
This streaky brown bird is a winter visitor, occasionally found walking around the muddy margins of marshes.
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Water vole by Terry Whittaker/2020VISION
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My adventure
Playing tig, hide-and-seek, splashing in muddy puddles, kicking through leaves and seeing what’s under that rock or in that tree – Emma and Ruby love heading to nature reserves at the weekend…
My social network
For our regular volunteers, weekly work parties on our nature reserves are not just about helping to protect local wildlife. They are also a chance to catch up with old friends, meet new ones and…
30 Days Wild
The UK's biggest nature challenge with The Wildlife Trusts will be returning on 1st June 2026!
Seasonal wildlife
Follow nature's changes through the year. From the red and gold leaves of autumn to the colourful woodland flowers of spring - there's always something special to see.
Get started with your spotter sheets
You can use this tool to create simple nature spotting sheets to print off and use outside.
Marsh frog
Europe's largest frog is not naturally found in the UK, but was introduced to Kent and has spread throughout the southeast.
Common puffball
This common fungus puffs out clouds of spores when it's mature.
Yew
The yew is a well-known tree of churchyards, but also grows wild on chalky soils. Yew trees can live for hundreds of years, turning into a maze of hollow wood and fallen trunks beneath dense…
My jump leads
Ann and her husband nurture and cultivate specialist sphagnum mosses and vascular plants like bog cranberry for a community area of the moss: they’re kickstarting the vegetation growth on Little…
Children's Mental Health Week 2021
Looking after our mental health is important. Read about ways to stay wild and well, by connecting with and being in nature.
Children's Mental Health Week
Looking after our mental health is important. Read about ways to stay wild and well, by connecting with and being in nature.