Colour run
Run for wildlife and go '50 Shades of Green' for Staffordshire Wildlife Trusts 2019 Colour Run event on 23rd June @ Chasewater Country Park.
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100 Metres of Hedgerow at Highgate Common
Partnership work with Staffordshire Wildlife Trust and CPRE Staffordshire, the countryside charity, sees a 100 metres of new hedge laid at Highgate Common Nature Reserve.
Highgate Common
An ancient lowland heath buzzing with rare wildlife
Staffordshire in Summer
Summer is a time of colour. By day, colourful wildlife zips and darts along the waterside in the form of hunting kingfishers and dragonflies. Butterflies flit between flower and reptiles bask on sun warmed bare earth. The activity carries on under cover of darkness too - bats sweep swiftly through the air and nightjars churr, while glow-worms adorn the night with their luminescent mating rituals.
Volunteer Practical Conservation - Highgate Common Work Party
To help conserve Staffordshire Wildlife Trust’s Nature Reserve, Highgate Common, and meet biodiversity targets through practical conservation tasks.
Sessions take place every Tuesday,…
Making a Splash for Endangered Species
The UK population of White-clawed Crayfish has crashed due to the introduction of North American Signal Crayfish – a non-native species which carry a disease which White-claws have no resistance…
Charity gears up for summer fun in great British outdoors
Fun-filled summer of wild events planned by Staffordshire Wildlife Trust, including two different ‘playdays.’
Wood warbler
Look for the wood warbler singing from the canopy of oak woodlands in the north and west of the UK. Green above, it has a distinctive, bright yellow throat and eyestripe.
Common cotton-grass
The fluffy, white heads of common cotton-grass dot our brown, boggy moors and heaths as if a giant bag of cotton wool balls has been thrown across the landscape!
Common restharrow
Look for the small, pink, pea-shaped flowers of Common restharrow on chalk and limestone grasslands, and in coastal areas, during summer.
Earliest sighting of BOB, rare Black Oil Beetle on Staffordshire nature reserve
On the 26th January, Nature Reserve Officer Gary Pascoe spotted the first Black Oil Beetle of the season at Highgate Common, a Site of Special Scientific Interest, in South Staffordshire.
Common mallow
Common mallow is a handsome 'weed' of waste ground, roadside verges and gardens. Its deep pink, stripey flowers provide nectar for insects throughout the summer.