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Worcestershire Wildlife Trust
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Keep up to date with the goings on of Worcestershire's wildlife (office hours).

http://worcswildlifetrust.co.uk
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We simply couldn’t do what we do without our amazing volunteers! 💚

Ahead of #InternationalVolunteerDay, get stuck into Nick’s blog about our heathland heroes and their work at our nature reserves of Worcestershire’s sandlands.

www.worcswildlifetrust.co.uk/blog/heathland-heroes/be-heathland-hero
November 30, 2025 at 8:30 AM
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Happy weekend! It’s a tad on the rainy side this morning, but the remainder of the weekend promises blue skies and sunshine. Why not pull on your woolly hat, pack your binoculars and go outdoors to watch some wildlife 🔎

Let us know what you spot 👇🏽

#Weekend #Wildlife #Worcestershire #NatureLovers
November 29, 2025 at 8:30 AM
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Have you been out on a walk recently and immediately whipped your phone out when you’ve seen or heard something you can’t identify? We’ve all been there! 🤳

Ion explores the world of apps when learning about wildlife: www.worcswildlifetrust.co.uk/blog/wilder-communities/apps-and-more
November 28, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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Welcome home! An owl box erected with funding from our #NaturalNetworks project has become home to a beautiful tawny owl 💚

NaturalNetworks is a partnership between the Trust and Worcestershire County Council to restore and create habitats for wildlife across #Worcestershire
A tawny owl inside a wooden owl box attached to a tree trunk with autumn leaves behind
November 28, 2025 at 11:57 AM
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Our #SevernTreescapes team works with land managers to plant trees in places that are right for their land. This #NationalTreeWeek, see how one farmer is adding lines of trees to shelter crops from the wind & creating ponds to hold water 🌳
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2 photos showing the same wide landscape - one ('now') has fewer trees than the other ('future') A wide landscape image of fields, hedges, houses in the distance The same wide landscape image of fields, hedges, houses in the distance as in the previous image but this has more trees and scattered ponds
November 27, 2025 at 7:30 AM
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Brrrrr but beautiful ❄️🩵

Are you appreciating the beauty that our cold mornings are bringing 😍
A path, to the right side of the image, is leading you through a woodland on a frosty morning. The sky is clear blue but there's a mist hanging in the air. A path running through a woodland, there are leaves on the ground and mist is hanging in the air through the trees A view across a glade in a woodland - the trees no longer have trees and the vegetation is covered in frost A field with a row of trees in the background - the field has a layer of frost, there's fog that's getting thicker to the righthand side of the photo, with the sun trying to break through
November 26, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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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 💚
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.
November 26, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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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 🐦💚
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
November 25, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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Yes, there are two snipe that are well hidden amongst the vegetation 😍
Two snipe hidden amongst vegetation in a wetland environment. There are two big arrows pointing to them.
November 25, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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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
November 24, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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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? 🤔
A marshy area full of cut down reeds...and some hidden wildlife...
November 24, 2025 at 7:30 AM
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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
November 23, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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It seems that our trainees have recruited a new member of the team... 🤩😍
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
November 22, 2025 at 9:15 AM
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With the plummeting temperatures this week, has anyone else been wondering why we can't #BeMoreDormouse and go into hibernation? 🤔😆
A dormouse curled up amongst a nest of dried grass and leaves
November 21, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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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-...
Graphic advertising craft fair on Sat 22nd Nov 10-4 at Lower Smite Farm between Worcester and Droitwich
November 20, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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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 - a veteran tree in a field on a sunny day, fairy fingers fungi peeking from amongst grass, an old and tall pear tree
November 19, 2025 at 8:45 AM
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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...
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
November 18, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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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 🦊😴
Through the tangle of branches and undergrowth is the gingery-red colouring of a fox curled up asleep
November 18, 2025 at 10:18 AM
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Yaaawwwwnnnn 😴

For today's #MysteryMonday what did our colleague Beth capture snoozing the day away when out on a nature reserve recently? 🤔
A wood with lots of understorey...and a hidden animal
November 17, 2025 at 7:30 AM
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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🌞
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.
November 16, 2025 at 10:15 AM
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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
Front cover of '"Worcestershire Wildlife' magazine featuring a starling that's standing on some deadwood - the light is catching the iridescence in the feathers.
November 15, 2025 at 9:45 AM
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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...
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
November 14, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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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
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
November 14, 2025 at 7:45 AM
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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 🩷🧡
Bright pink and orange flowers/berries of spindle tree
November 12, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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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-...
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.
November 12, 2025 at 11:45 AM