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Spring means bees are getting busy
While we're all sitting at home, wildlife is getting on with its spring preparations, and according to an expert, with bees in particular looking bigger and busier at this time of year.
Spring forward into nature: Connect, conserve, and get involved
Find out what our Wet Willow Wildlife project team have been up to; moth trapping, tree planting and even school children pretending to be willow tits!
Getting Wild About Gardens
This year's Wild About Gardens theme is 'Swifts, Swallows and House Martins' - birds that all depend on our gardens.
Steve Backshall gets involved in Wythenshawe community nature project
On Saturday 25 April, naturalist, presenter and Championing Nature Ambassador Steve Backshall visited The Wildlife Trust for Lancashire, Manchester and North Merseyside in Wythenshawe Hall and…
Getting prepared for the Manchester Festival of Nature
“Are you ready for the festival?” asks James Walsh, aka The Mancunian Birder
Bittern caught on video at Doffcocker Lodge
A bittern has been spotted climbing about in the reedbed at Doffcocker Lodge, and a lucky volunteer caught its antics on film.
Peacock
The markings of the peacock are unmistakeable - big, blue 'eyes' just like a peacock's tail feathers. It can be seen feeding on flowers all year-round during warm spells, and…
Stock dove
The stock dove looks very much like the woodpigeon, but without the white neck and wing patches. It can be spotted in woodlands and parks, and on farmland in winter, but rarely visits our gardens…
Peacock's tail
A scarce but distinctive brown seaweed with curved, funnel-shaped fronds. It is a warmer water species at the northern edge of its range on the south coast of England.
Setting a trap… a camera trap
As my feet sank further into the surrounding bog I could barely contain my excitement – a badger footprint stamped among the deer prints.