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Sussex Wildlife Trust @sussexwildlife.bsky.social · 3h

Glynn Rubidge caught sight of this beautiful Toad on a recent drizzly evening. Toads love damp log piles & deep leaf litter. They spend much of the year in moist, shaded places, feeding on worms, slugs & insects. When scared or threatened, the warts on its back secrete a vile-tasting substance

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Sussex Wildlife Trust @sussexwildlife.bsky.social · 9h

Want to hear a piece of music this landscape inspired? Find out more about it in this interview with Stuart Morris AKA Get Catweasel buff.ly/CsXqNgx

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barryclough.bsky.social @barryclough.bsky.social · 1d

We're extremely lucky that every year without fail we have breeding Kingfishers at Warnham LNR. Usually the first sighting gets everyone excited and the hides are packed, today I comfortably sat with a few others watching this cracking male. @sussexwildlife.bsky.social #kingfisher #birds

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Sussex Wildlife Trust @sussexwildlife.bsky.social · 12h

Piewipe anyone? Wonderful Lapwing photos by Barry Yates. Have you heard their squeaky 'peewit' call? It's why many call them peewits. Other local names include: Green Plover, Lappy, Toppyup, Piewipe & Tieve's Nacket, which means thieves' imp

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Sussex Wildlife Trust @sussexwildlife.bsky.social · 1d

Contractor work will commence (today) Monday 13 October at Waltham Brooks Nature Reserve for 2 weeks. If you are visiting the Reserve please be aware that machinery will be working on the site. buff.ly/eR12pLs

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Sussex Wildlife Trust @sussexwildlife.bsky.social · 1d

Listen from 48 minutes in to hear Jack's 'A list' actions for helping wildlife in small spaces. 🐸 #Gardening #Wildlife

Sussex Wildlife Trust @sussexwildlife.bsky.social · 2d

Listen to Jack Thompson, Wilder Communities Officer, talking about wildlife gardening with Pat Marsh on BBC Radio Sussex from 10:45 this morning: buff.ly/yYyuttr

Photo © Kai Hilton

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Sussex Wildlife Trust @sussexwildlife.bsky.social · 1d

Meet Kutub Uddin, wonderful local wildlife photographer, keen on macro shots of tiny things (eg slime moulds). Recently awarded highly commended at the Natural History Museum Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition
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award winning macro shot of purple slime moulds that look like lollies on sticks

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Sussex Wildlife Trust @sussexwildlife.bsky.social · 1d

How very poetic!

David Bentley @sussextangerine.bsky.social · 3d

Flat calm and windless at Rye Harbour this morning. A low blanket of cloud reflected the soft chimes of 100s of Golden Plover. They put me in mind of kindly ghosts calling lost loves. I wanted a benign mist to descend so I could just listen and not see.
#UKwildlife
@sussexwildlife.bsky.social

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Sussex Wildlife Trust @sussexwildlife.bsky.social · 1d

Woody Nightshade AKA Bittersweet. Nightshades are toxic; its bright red berries can cause serious illness. The leaves smell of burnt rubber when crushed! 📷 Roger Wilmshurst

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Sussex Wildlife Trust @sussexwildlife.bsky.social · 2d

Hamza also visits the garden of Sussex Wildlife Trust trustee and professional wildlife photographer, David Plummer, to experience Tawny Owls.

Watch on BBC One Sunday at 6.15pm or on iPlayer: buff.ly/q0pr7yJ

BBC One - Hamza's Hidden Wild Isles

Hamza Yassin reveals amazing wildlife hidden around the UK.

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Sussex Wildlife Trust @sussexwildlife.bsky.social · 2d

We are excited to watch Hamza's Hidden Wild Isles on BBC One tonight. Hamza Yassin is travelling around the UK to uncover hidden wildlife spectacles. Hamza filmed some of the first episode amongst the Bluebells at Ebernoe Common Nature Reserve.

BBC One - Hamza's Hidden Wild Isles

Hamza Yassin reveals amazing wildlife hidden around the UK.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Sussex Wildlife Trust @sussexwildlife.bsky.social · 2d

Listen to Jack Thompson, Wilder Communities Officer, talking about wildlife gardening with Pat Marsh on BBC Radio Sussex from 10:45 this morning: buff.ly/yYyuttr

Photo © Kai Hilton

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Sussex Wildlife Trust @sussexwildlife.bsky.social · 2d

We all have days when we feel like this, eh? Spiked Shieldbug by Tom Boyle.

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Sussex Wildlife Trust @sussexwildlife.bsky.social · 3d

In nature, resources are limited, so competition for food can be fierce. Barry Clough captured this Herring Gull hoping to swipe the fish the Cormorant has just snaffled. Not this time, buddy. Cormorant 1, Herring Gull 0

Herring Gull hovering over a cormorant with a fish in its beak

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Sussex Wildlife Trust @sussexwildlife.bsky.social · 4d

We are looking for a focused and strategic leader who will help build an inclusive movement of people taking action for wildlife.

sussexwt.livevacancies.co.uk#/job/details...

#GreenJobs #EDI #CommunityEngagement #Sussex

Image of deciduous woodland taken from above, overlaid with text: Sussex Wildlife Trust - We're hiring! - Director of Communities (Maternity Cover) - Applications close 3 Nov 2025 Image ¨ Amy King / Kai Hilton

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Sussex Wildlife Trust @sussexwildlife.bsky.social · 4d

It's all connected!🔄The tiny Tunbridge Filmy Fern is one of many specialist species found at our epic Eridge Rocks reserve - the huge rocks providing the perfect damp and shady habitat.🌿

📸Tunbridge Filmy Fern © Neil Fletcher / Eridge Rocks © Miles Davies

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Sussex Wildlife Trust @sussexwildlife.bsky.social · 4d

Hi Megan - anecdotal, but the on-path signage added at Rye Harbour Nature Reserve this year appears to have been a resounding success, in terms of cleanliness of the path and number of dogs on leads

Signs painted onto walkway at Rye Harbour Nature Reserve in Sussex saying: Dogs on leads - Pick up after your dog

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Sussex Wildlife Trust @sussexwildlife.bsky.social · 4d

Are we the bad guys? How did newts, bats and now snails become the unlikely poster children of an anti-growth narrative? A healthy, functioning natural environment is not a luxury — it’s essential to economic resilience, public health, and wellbeing.

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Newts, bats and snails against a red background

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Sussex Wildlife Trust @sussexwildlife.bsky.social · 4d

The green colour on the wing of a Teal is created by the feather structure, not a pigment. The iridescence changes with the angle of the light. So in this wing flap, one wing shows green, the other blue. 📷 & words Barry Yates

Teal duck with wings out, one with patch pf green, one blue

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Sussex Wildlife Trust @sussexwildlife.bsky.social · 5d

Yes, she will. More here - First it was newts, then bats… now it’s snails.

sussexwildlifetrust.org.uk/news/first-i...

First it was newts, then bats… now it’s snails. | Sussex Wildlife Trust

sussexwildlifetrust.org.uk

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Sussex Wildlife Trust @sussexwildlife.bsky.social · 5d

Watch our Director of Conservation, Henri Brocklebank, on BBC South East news at 6:30pm tonight, talking about why nature is not the barrier to growth.

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Sussex Wildlife Trust @sussexwildlife.bsky.social · 5d

Far more than just the view. Seaford Head nature reserve provides a vital habitat for one of our rarest bees. The Potter Flower Bee nests by burrowing into the sandy soils on the clifftops and is only found at two other sites in the country

📸Potter Flower Bee ©Alex Worsley/Seaford Head ©Dennis Hunt

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Sussex Wildlife Trust @sussexwildlife.bsky.social · 5d

You're so vein! Barry Yates posted this photo: 'Consider the veins in the wing of this Common Darter and the veins in the leaf it's perched on... ' @rxnature.bsky.social

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Sussex Wildlife Trust @sussexwildlife.bsky.social · 6d

Community groups! We're want you! To join us at The Deneway Nature Reserve, Brighton.
Contact Archie to discuss how we could work together [email protected]
Visits can be one-off & don’t need to involve practical conservation work - just a chance to connect with nature

Black Darter dragonfly © Simon Linington

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Sussex Wildlife Trust @sussexwildlife.bsky.social · 6d

Mostly it was extracted from small pits but the industrial revolution led to the excavation of large quarries, today disused. The chalk cliffs of the Navigation & Southerham Pits can be viewed from the Railwayland nature reserve while Caburn & Balcombe pits can be seen from the top of Mount Caburn.

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