Homemade hedgehog hideaways
One of the easiest ways to help your neighbourhood hedgehogs is to create a homemade hedgehog hideaway for your garden.
One of the easiest ways to help your neighbourhood hedgehogs is to create a homemade hedgehog hideaway for your garden.
Considered a gardener’s best friend, hedgehogs will happily hoover up insects roaming in vegetable beds. Famously covered in spines, hedgehogs like to eat all sorts of bugs and crunchy beetles.…
September has been a month of varied weather. Some days stormy, others dry and bright.
August has turned a little wet, with some quite stormy days here at Abberton, this hasn’t put off the wildlife though.
The wildflower areas at Abberton are getting better and better through June with a lovely variety of species including Lady’s bedstraw, Wild carrot, Knapweed, Birdsfoot trefoil, Self-heal, and…
October has been a relatively mild month here at Abberton, but the reserve is still changing into its autumn colours.
July has been another good month for the nature reserve at Abberton. We have had lots of birds visiting including a Great white egret.
Now is a great time of year to visit Abberton Reservoir nature reserve. We have lots of migratory birds right here on the reserve as well as around the wider Essex & Suffolk Water reservoir…
Conservation blogger Kate on Conservation challenged her blogger community to write the best 30 Days Wild blog. Here, we share a sample of winner #itsawildlife's submission as they write…
New report by the People’s Trust for Endangered Species (PTES) and the British Hedgehog Preservation Society (BHPS), reveals hedgehogs have declined by between 30% - 75% across different areas of…
Unsurprisingly, the garden bumblebee can be found in the garden, buzzing around flowers like foxgloves, cowslips and red clover. It is quite a large, scruffy-looking bee, with a white tail. It…
Find out if you have hedgehog visitors by making a hedgehog footprint tunnel.