Cumbria Wildlife Trust are delighted to announce a new partnership with Carlisle writer Susan Cartwright-Smith.

Guest blog by Gosling Sike writer in residence Susan Cartwright-Smith including a poem This Land Is A Gift.

We have had another wet month with the occasional beautiful sunny day. The tree nursery is starting to bulge at the seams with trees, with over 400 now and about 500 growing in people’s gardens…

I thought I would start my recount of December with a big “Happy New Year” for 2020. I hope you all have lots of wonderful wild plans for the year ahead.

During November we have had a big push in the tree nursery, getting our first load of trees planted and protected from the resident deer population. As some of these young hazel trees are already…

As we are creeping through autumn and the nights are drawing in, the mornings are starting get frosty. The crisp leaves that have been blown from the trees in the woods are really crunching…

There is definitely an Autumnal feel to the weather at the moment, with warm wet days followed by crisp, sunny, dry ones. All the leaves are turning to deep auburn and brown and slowly drifting…

My name’s William, and over the past summer I have been volunteering with Cumbria Wildlife Trust.

August has been a busy month, with the school holidays in full swing the woodlands have been visited by many intrepid explorers.

The first week in September usually marks the end of osprey season at Foulshaw Moss Nature Reserve as the birds begin their epic migration.