Newton Reigny
Tussocky sedges and some unusual wetland plants combined with the wet woodland of willow and alder provide a home for some rare spiders and beetles.
Tussocky sedges and some unusual wetland plants combined with the wet woodland of willow and alder provide a home for some rare spiders and beetles.
A date that was in our diaries ever since we started this traineeship was Cumbria Wildlife Trust’s annual member’s conference
The Common sexton beetle is one of several burying beetle species in the UK. An undertaker of the animal world, it buries dead animals like mice and birds, and feeds and breeds on the corpses.
With its prominent, wavy crest, the great crested newt, also known as the 'warty newt', looks like a mini dinosaur! This protected species favours clean ponds during the breeding season…
The palmate newt looks similar to the smooth newt, but favours shallow pools on acidic soils like heathlands. During the breeding season, males grow distinctive black webbing on their hind feet.…
You are likely to spot the smooth newt in your garden or local pond. It breeds in water in summer and spends the rest of the year in grassland and woodland, hibernating over winter.
Even a small pond can be home to an interesting range of wildlife, including damsel and dragonflies, frogs and newts.
Amphibians such as frogs, toads and newts are suffering from global decline and so it is wonderful to see what can only be described as an explosion of frogs at Foulshaw Moss Nature Reserve this…
This month we will be pond dipping in the grounds of Plumgarths. Come along and find out what lurks in the pond. You might even be lucky enough to catch a newt or a dragonfly nymph! Outdoor…
On the 6th July a group went on to Eycott Hill Nature Reserve following the very knowledgeable John O’Reilly of Ptyxis Ecology in search of grasses to identify.
After a superb day teaching us how to identify grasses John O’Reilly of Ptyxis Ecology returned to test our brains with his knowledge of sedges.