Here is my third and final blog of my northern reserve student placement experience with Cumbria Wildlife Trust.

Here is my second blog of my northern reserve student placement experience with Cumbria Wildlife Trust.

My name is Jess Cowburn and I’m the northern reserve placement student. For as long as I can remember I’ve preferred animals to people, so for me a job involving animals would be ideal. When the…

Volunteer Jenny looks back at a summer at Eycott Hill Nature Reserve...

Hello, I’m John Rowlands and I’d like to take the opportunity to introduce myself as the student placement volunteer in the north. For the past two years I have been studying an honours degree in…

My name is Emilia and I have been doing work experience with Cumbria Wildlife Trust for a week. I will be going into my last year of school and hope to study Zoology at University.

My name is Jenny and I have just finished my second year at Durham University studying Biological Sciences. I am doing a summer placement with Cumbria Wildlife Trust, based at Eycott Hill Nature…

So it’s now November which means I’ve been working for Cumbria Wildlife Trust for 4 months and it’s crazy how quickly it has gone. It’s certainly been a busy few months filled with many different…

I’m almost two months into my placement and I’m still introducing myself as the new long term volunteer at Eycott Hill, as well as still being bowled over by the views from the nature reserve.

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.