Worcestershire Wildlife Trust

Two people in the distance amongst an area of woodland that's been recently coppiced - there's a cleared area in the middle of the photo with piled up hazel poles to the right. There are trees surrounding them and a grass path on the righthand side. It's a beautifully sunny winters day.

A big thank you to our #volunteers for a great coppicing job alongside one of the paths at #Monkwood, letting in the light to the woodland floor 🌱🌼🌸🐝🦋🐛

The hazel that was cut will be used by our #WilderWorcestershire team for a project they're doing in a community garden 💚

A blackcap bird (mainly brown/grey body with a grey name and a black 'cap') reaching down to feed on a berry - the leaves of the tree are coppery in colour and the berries are cream

Have you spotted a blackcap recently? 👀

It's not that long ago that they were only summer visitors to the UK but they moved on as summer ended; if you spot one now, it'll be one that has spent the summer in France, Spain, Germany or Poland before coming over to spend the winter with us 🐦💚

Two snipe hidden amongst vegetation in a wetland environment. There are two big arrows pointing to them.

Yes, there are two snipe that are well hidden amongst the vegetation 😍

Yes, well spotted - two of them ⭐

For #NationalTreeWeek we're celebrating how trees can help boost both a productive landscape as well as biodiversity.

You can see below how one farmer, working with our #SevernTreescapes team, is transforming his land 🌳💚

Thx to our partners @gloswildlife.bsky.social & @herefordshirewt.bsky.social

Our understanding is that some Trusts have already stopped posting, others are considering doing so and have moved/are moving to other platforms.

We're no longer active there but are leaving our older posts for anyone who wants to find out more about Worcestershire's wildlife.

Yep! 😃💤

#ChannelYourInnerDormouse 😁

Our thoughts precisely...

Oh good point 😀

A marshy area full of cut down reeds...and some hidden wildlife...

Good morning and how is everyone today 👋

Some species of wildlife are brilliant at hiding in plain sight so for today's #MysteryMonday how many of what was our colleague Ion watching at Upton Warren recently? 🤔

Shop with us this Christmas and you'll not only be supporting wildlife across Worcestershire but you'll be buying from local makers too 🎁

www.worcswildlifetrust.co.uk/shop

#ShopLocal #Worcestershire #ShopWorcestershire #ShopMakers #makers #gifts #Christmas #ChristmasGifts #ChristmasGifting

A bird (robin) is perched on a large wheel of a white Land Rover with the words 'Protecting wildlife for the future' written on the wide of the vehicle

It seems that our trainees have recruited a new member of the team... 🤩😍

A dormouse curled up amongst a nest of dried grass and leaves

With the plummeting temperatures this week, has anyone else been wondering why we can't #BeMoreDormouse and go into hibernation? 🤔😆

Graphic advertising craft fair on Sat 22nd Nov 10-4 at Lower Smite Farm between Worcester and Droitwich

It's nearly here 🥳

Join us on Saturday at #LowerSmiteFarm for our Christmas craft fair - a host of craftworkers, our secondhand bookstall, Christmas cards, calendars and plenty of yummy cakes.

Bring your walking boots & head out on our nature trail 🥾

www.worcswildlifetrust.co.uk/events/2025-...

Find out about @bibbeyswildfarms.bsky.social success story & how Nature Friendly Farming can feed nature into our lives on the urban fringe & within the @bbcwildlifetrust.bsky.social conurbation

Doors/bar open 6:30pm at Fairfield Village Hall, B61 9LZ, this Saturday. FREE community social event

3 photos - a veteran tree in a field on a sunny day, fairy fingers fungi peeking from amongst grass, an old and tall pear tree

Many thanks to National Trust's The Weir Garden & other properties who hosted our #SevernTreescapes team to nosey around their wood pasture, woodland & orchards – we spotted wonderful trees, fairy fingers fungi & a beautiful (& rare) jennet pear tree 🌳💚

www.worcswildlifetrust.co.uk/severn-trees...

3 photos showing different aspects of trees - a cavity running up a tree trunk, a branch broken away from the main trunk and wounds on trunks

Measuring using a stick. Cavities. Wounds. Deadwood. All in a day's training for our conservation trainees 🌳👀

Sam's latest blog gives us both a far away and close up inspection of trees 👇
www.worcswildlifetrust.co.uk/blog/conserv...

well spotted but it's a fox 🦊

Yep, you spotted it but it's a fox 🦊

⭐

Through the tangle of branches and undergrowth is the gingery-red colouring of a fox curled up asleep

Yes, there's a sleeping fox in the top/middle of the photo - Beth zoomed in the camera as much as she could from the path and then crept away, leaving it snoozing away 🦊😴

A wood with lots of understorey...and a hidden animal

Yaaawwwwnnnn 😴

For today's #MysteryMonday what did our colleague Beth capture snoozing the day away when out on a nature reserve recently? 🤔

2 people pausing to smile at the camera; they're in the middle of planting bulbs alongside a path in a small woodland. There are houses in the background.

2 people in the middle of planting bulbs alongside a path in a small woodland on a sunny day

2 people in the middle of planting bulbs in a small woodland on a sunny day

2 people in the middle of planting bulbs alongside a path in a small woodland. The one closer to the camera is kneeling near to a fenceline.

3 cheers for amazing people in local communities 🥳

Our #WilderWorcestershire team joined Charlie Willis of @wychavon.bsky.social & local residents to plant 5000+ spring bulbs in their neighbouring woodland area in #Droitwich 🌺🌸🌼🌻

An extra cheer for the sunshine, which helped keep everyone smiling🌞

Front cover of '"Worcestershire Wildlife' magazine featuring a starling that's standing on some deadwood - the light is catching the iridescence in the feathers.

Whoop 🥳

It's time for our latest members' magazine, which will drop through doors nx wk. Our latest issue celebrates amazing #volunteers, dives into the world of #fungi, takes a look at real estate for wildlife & much more

Not a member? Missing out? Join us www.worcswildlifetrust.co.uk/membership

A child lying on their stomach on a boardwalk, alongside vegetation, and they're examining something that they've picked out of a tray of earth

Want to be part of a team inspiring children about our amazing natural world?

Our Wilder Schools Outdoor Learning Traineeship is a 6mth placement providing gain hands-on experience & training in delivering high-quality outdoor/environmental education.

www.worcswildlifetrust.co.uk/volunteering...

3 photos - holes being drilled into a tree trunk (with some bark removed), a woodland with light coming through and an area of field that's been scarified and sown with seeds

Yay for Norton-juxta-Kempsey PC who've worked with our #NaturalNetworks team to do great things for wildlife 👏
-sown wildflower seeds
-planted 100s of bulbs in the woodland where they've thinned trees to allow light in
-created log piles & bee posts from felled trees
-installed bird & bat boxes

Bright pink and orange flowers/berries of spindle tree

Shades on 😎

Whilst some spindle trees showed off their colours early this year, our colleague Becca spotted one recently that was truly making a statement 🩷🧡

A mature hedgerow on the right side of the image leads into the distance. There's a field to the left. There are the words 'hedgerow and coppice workshop' and 'Severn Treescapes' overlaying the photo.

Want to know more about the importance of hedgerows as well as get involved with planting up a hedge and timber coppice? Then join our #SevernTreescapes team next Thursday for a hedgerow and coppice workshop near Grafton Flyford. Find out more 👇

www.worcswildlifetrust.co.uk/events/2025-...