I suppose I should feel obliged to mention the grey partridge, as I have volunteered to join in on the LWT #12DaysWild over Christmas.

“Ambushed” by a posse of at least 90 starlings, all resting on telephone wires along the road I take onto the moss.

Under the watchful eye of the Moon a wander into a landscape evolving for nature, on Day 5 of #12DaysWild

It wasn’t just Santa Claus visiting Lancashire over the Festive Season, we have also been treated to a bit of rough and tumble from Storm Gerrit.

Grey, miserable-looking and windswept was the sky over the moss, as I set off on Day 4. Was this glum weather about to affect my mood and turn me back home?

Day three of my 12 Days Wild and I am back on the Moss in the wind and rain. Some things never change, but who am I to complain, I choose to be buffeted by the wind and my waterproofs simply…

Peatlands birding legend Dave Steel begins his 12 days of Christmas rejoicing with the willow warbler -a 12cm marvel of feathers that migrates to Europe in the summer from Africa, returning in the…

In his final blog from Heysham Nature Reserve, Alan Wright sees a wildlife spectacle and seeks some of the many birds recorded on the reserve.

In part two of his blog from Heysham Nature Reserve, Alan Wright seeks an autumn butterfly and other species appearing on a warm day.

In the first of a series of blogs, Alan Wright explores the autumn wildlife around Heysham Nature Reserve.