A new improved garden for bees, birds and deer
Cedar Manor is a family-owned small, luxury hotel in Windermere. The owners, Caroline and Jonathan Kaye, have improved their hotel grounds for wildlife over the last two years and below they tell…
Get closer to the field and a little more behind the scenes by reading about the wild experiences, wildlife insights and recollections of staff and volunteers – writers from all over the organisation, from our Reserve Officers to our student placements.
We welcome guest bloggers! If you have something to write home about - whether you've got a trail cam in your garden, or you've been bird watching, or visited one of our nature reserves - if it's to do with Cumbria's wildlife and wild places then we'd love to hear from you!
Cedar Manor is a family-owned small, luxury hotel in Windermere. The owners, Caroline and Jonathan Kaye, have improved their hotel grounds for wildlife over the last two years and below they tell…
A poem by Gosling Sike writer-in-residence Susan Cartwright-Smith
Our two-minute survey can score your garden and offer ideas to make it even better for wildlife, but why is this so important?
The ospreys have returned to Cumbria Wildlife Trust’s Foulshaw Moss Nature Reserve for the 10th year.
The Planting for Pollinators project gets underway
A poem by Gosling Sike writer-in-residence Susan Cartwright-Smith
The buzz of a bee, the sweet scent of honeysuckle, these precious moments are not only a delight to experience in our gardens, they’re absolutely vital if we’re going to protect, restore and…
Out in spring, dark-edged bee-flies are one of the first pollinators you’ll encounter in the year. A furry fly with a high-pitched buzz, you’ll be forgiven for thinking it’s a bumblebee!
Steve Garland, chair of Lancashire Wildlife Trust and beetle expert, explores the world of these incredible, armoured insects.
Storms - a poem by Gosling Sike writer-in-residence Susan Cartwright-Smith, February 2022.