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Tim has volunteered at Astley Moss for five years, helping to increase the water levels on the bogs back to their historic healthy levels. He especially loves watching the birds return to this…
Tim has volunteered at Astley Moss for five years, helping to increase the water levels on the bogs back to their historic healthy levels. He especially loves watching the birds return to this…
This shiny beetle is common in wooded areas throughout the UK. As the name suggests, it specialises in hunting snails.
Stone curlews are unusual waders with large yellow eyes - perfect for hunting beetles at night.
Join us for a winter wildlife adventure with events and activities for the whole family including a quiz night, wildlife watch, and winter bird walk.
Our woodlands are a key tool in the box when addressing climate change for their carbon storage potential, but are less well known for their potential to limit flooding events, with wet woodlands…
These colourful little fish are a delight for snorkellers or shallow water divers to photograph, rarely being scared off by their presence!
Perennial rye-grass is a tufted, vigorous grass of roadside verges, rough pastures and waste ground. It is commonly used in agriculture and for reseeding grasslands.
A small colourful sea slug that can be found grazing on sea mats on the rocky shore and beyond the low water mark.
Their long narrow shells are a common sight on our shores, especially after storms, but the animals themselves live buried in the sand.
The song thrush is a familiar garden visitor that has a beautiful and loud song. The broken shells of their blue, spotty eggs can often be found under a hedge in spring.
The thresher shark is a migratory species and passes through UK waters in the summer months. If you’re lucky, you might see this magnificent shark jump high out of the water in to the air.