How to provide bushes for nesting birds
In the spring, birds choose the best locations to build nests, so why not offer them a safe place to settle?
In the spring, birds choose the best locations to build nests, so why not offer them a safe place to settle?
Recent disturbances at several buildings where swifts are nesting has brought a focus on the weaknesses of the 1981 Wildlife & Countryside Act.
This time of the year is special because it’s when our wildflower meadows explode in a riot of colour, providing carpets of cowslips, buttercups and orchids.
Tern on Swan Lake.
Wild orchid at Straws Bridge
Derbyshire Wildlife Trust are proud and delighted to announce that Debbie Bailey, The Trust’s lead badger vaccinator, has been awarded a 2018 Animal Action Award by the International Fund for…
As its name suggests, the birch shieldbug can be found feeding on silver birch, and sometimes hazel, in mixed woodland. Adults hibernate over winter, emerging in spring to lay their eggs.
The birch polypore only grows on Birch trees. This leathery bracket fungus has a rounded, coffee-coloured cap that was once used for sharpening tools, hence its other name: the 'Razorstrop…
A spindly tree of heathland and moorlands, and damp soils, the Downy birch is well known for its paper-thin, white bark. It is so-called for the hairy stalks from which its leaves grow; the Silver…
Your wildlife sightings in early April 2022
Your wildlife sightings in Derbyshire in early March 2022
Your wildlife sightings in Derbyshire in late March 2022