BLOG: Winter visitors by Den Cartlidge
A flock of noisy birds lands in a small holly tree on the edge of a tiny urban park. Flanked on two sides by busy roads, and surrounded by a pavement border, none of the people walking to workā¦
A flock of noisy birds lands in a small holly tree on the edge of a tiny urban park. Flanked on two sides by busy roads, and surrounded by a pavement border, none of the people walking to workā¦
Last yearās long and hot summer affected the numbers of a stunning bird of prey recorded in Staffordshire in 2018.
Numbers of breeding pairs of barn owls in the county was slightly down inā¦
Here at Staffordshire Wildlife Trust, the majority of our full time people engagement team staff are Forest School trained and we find that the Forest School Ethos and its approach to learning inā¦
Our Finance Manager, Stephen Turner, was one of the thousands of people who travelled to London on Wednesday for The Time is Now March.
In his blog, he gives a flavour of what it was likeā¦
Staffordshire Wildlife Trust has welcomed news that work to clear an ancient woodland near Lichfield will not begin this spring ā a vital time for wildlife ā following a review by HS2 Ltd.
Blog by Duncan Coleman
So, I attempted to keep the blog going this earlier this year, With a target of one post a week. But I failed miserably very early on due to my workload, so many levelā¦
The Government has bowed to pressure from the National Farmers Union and agreed to authorise the use of the highly damaging neonicotinoid thiamethoxam for the treatment of sugar beet seed in 2021ā¦
So, itās been a long time since the last blog post and for this I apologise. We have been so busy with all the Forest School Level 3 course delivery this year, particularly with our Stoke based āā¦
The grey partridge is an attractive bird that prefers the ground to pear trees! Found on farmland and grassland, it is under threat from loss of habitat.
As well as regular delivery of Forest School at Weston Road Academy in Stafford and through Strong Roots, Better Futures programme in Stoke, with the start of February, our busy spring and summerā¦
A plump gamebird, the red-legged partridge is an introduced species that seems to have settled here with little problem. It can be spotted in its favoured open scrub and farmland habitats.
Look out for the small, yellow flowers of Celery-leaved buttercup in wet meadows and at the edges of ponds and ditches. It flowers from May to September.