Harvest mouse
The harvest mouse is tiny - an adult can weigh as little as a 2p piece! It prefers habitats with long grass, but you are most likely to spot its round, woven-grass nests.
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Historic harvest underway for boggy bulrush trial in Manchester
Last week saw the exciting first harvest of bulrush heads for The Wildlife Trust for Lancashire, Manchester and North Merseyside’s wetter farming trial site on a farm on Chat Moss.
How do you harvest wetter farming crops? Meet Edna, our ‘Scrapheap Challenge’ bulrush harvester!
As part of our exciting wetter farming trials, we are growing a commercial crop of bulrushes on purposefully re-wetted agricultural peat fields. But one question we get asked again and again is…
Hares
Early spring is the best time to see the fastest land mammal in the country.
Boxing hares: An unmissable spring spectacle
Usually shy and retiring, lithe and leggy brown hares are getting ready to put on an extra special show just in time for spring. Take a ringside seat and get ready for some fisticuffs!
Hares’ tails and painted ladies
Dave Steel is looking for summer as he continues his 30 Days Wild adventure, but he still manages to find plenty of colour.
The last of the English snow hares
A major citizen science project will be launched in the Peak District and South Pennines this autumn to gather more information about the enigmatic snow hare, and how this species is being…
Quiet morning harvesting sphagnum
“And on the seventh day the moss took its ease,” Dave Steel continues his 30 Days Wild mossland adventure.
Huge disappointment at limitations of Bovine TB Strategy Review led by Sir Charles Godfray
The Wildlife Trusts' response to the Bovine TB Strategy Review.
Sooty shearwater
These globe-spanning seabirds can often be seen offshore in autumn, shearing low over the waves.
Searching the coast for mermaids’ purses
Searching for sharks in Morecambe Bay has helped volunteers to make waves by winning a national award.
Wyre Sea Watch
Join the Bay team in our search for whales, dolphins, porpoises, seals and seabirds at the top of Rossall Point Tower with a local expert.