Dorset Wildlife Trust
@dorsetwildlife.bsky.social
We're Dorset's biggest conservation charity, caring for 42 nature reserves and managing 4 visitor centres and a National Nature Reserve.
Support our work and become a member: dorsetwildlifetrust.org.uk
Support our work and become a member: dorsetwildlifetrust.org.uk
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💧 Will you help protect Dorset's Water for Wildlife? 💧
Less than 15% of Dorset's rivers are in good condition, and 90% of the UK’s wetlands have disappeared in the last 100 years.
Water for Wildlife 👉 bit.ly/4o6j126
Less than 15% of Dorset's rivers are in good condition, and 90% of the UK’s wetlands have disappeared in the last 100 years.
Water for Wildlife 👉 bit.ly/4o6j126
Turn your #BlackFriday green by shopping with Easyfundraising!
@easyfundraising is partnered with over 8,000 brands (including John Lewis, Amazon and Currys) who will donate part of what you spend to Dorset Wildlife Trust for FREE! Sign up here 👉 bit.ly/46ndafO ~ Jack
📸 Natalie Dunn
@easyfundraising is partnered with over 8,000 brands (including John Lewis, Amazon and Currys) who will donate part of what you spend to Dorset Wildlife Trust for FREE! Sign up here 👉 bit.ly/46ndafO ~ Jack
📸 Natalie Dunn
November 26, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Turn your #BlackFriday green by shopping with Easyfundraising!
@easyfundraising is partnered with over 8,000 brands (including John Lewis, Amazon and Currys) who will donate part of what you spend to Dorset Wildlife Trust for FREE! Sign up here 👉 bit.ly/46ndafO ~ Jack
📸 Natalie Dunn
@easyfundraising is partnered with over 8,000 brands (including John Lewis, Amazon and Currys) who will donate part of what you spend to Dorset Wildlife Trust for FREE! Sign up here 👉 bit.ly/46ndafO ~ Jack
📸 Natalie Dunn
Have you started your Christmas shopping yet? 🎄
Finding eco-friendly gifts that don't break the bank can be really tricky. Luckily, we offer a range of gifts sure to bring joy to your friends and family while doing good for Dorset's wildlife. 🎁👉 bit.ly/3X7Ndyz ~ Jack
Finding eco-friendly gifts that don't break the bank can be really tricky. Luckily, we offer a range of gifts sure to bring joy to your friends and family while doing good for Dorset's wildlife. 🎁👉 bit.ly/3X7Ndyz ~ Jack
November 24, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Have you started your Christmas shopping yet? 🎄
Finding eco-friendly gifts that don't break the bank can be really tricky. Luckily, we offer a range of gifts sure to bring joy to your friends and family while doing good for Dorset's wildlife. 🎁👉 bit.ly/3X7Ndyz ~ Jack
Finding eco-friendly gifts that don't break the bank can be really tricky. Luckily, we offer a range of gifts sure to bring joy to your friends and family while doing good for Dorset's wildlife. 🎁👉 bit.ly/3X7Ndyz ~ Jack
Do you want to help local hedgehogs? 🦔🎁
Gift a digital Dorset hedgehog adoption pack this Christmas and help fund vital conservation work in communities to support hedgehogs and other precious species! 👉 bit.ly/3LQ5rlK ~ Jack
📸 John Bridges
Gift a digital Dorset hedgehog adoption pack this Christmas and help fund vital conservation work in communities to support hedgehogs and other precious species! 👉 bit.ly/3LQ5rlK ~ Jack
📸 John Bridges
November 21, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Do you want to help local hedgehogs? 🦔🎁
Gift a digital Dorset hedgehog adoption pack this Christmas and help fund vital conservation work in communities to support hedgehogs and other precious species! 👉 bit.ly/3LQ5rlK ~ Jack
📸 John Bridges
Gift a digital Dorset hedgehog adoption pack this Christmas and help fund vital conservation work in communities to support hedgehogs and other precious species! 👉 bit.ly/3LQ5rlK ~ Jack
📸 John Bridges
What a beauty! 🤩🍄
The candlesnuff fungus, also known as the 'Stag's Horn', has an erect, simple or forked fruiting body with a downy stalk. It grows in groups on dead and rotting wood.
Have you seen one this autumn? 👀 ~ Jack
#FungiFriday
The candlesnuff fungus, also known as the 'Stag's Horn', has an erect, simple or forked fruiting body with a downy stalk. It grows in groups on dead and rotting wood.
Have you seen one this autumn? 👀 ~ Jack
#FungiFriday
Another magnificent example of Candlesnuff fungus (Xylaria hypoxylon), with Deadman’s Fingers (Xylaria polymorpha) in the background. Powerstock NR, Dorset today 20/11/25 #fungi #FungiFriends @dorsetwildlife.bsky.social
November 21, 2025 at 12:25 PM
What a beauty! 🤩🍄
The candlesnuff fungus, also known as the 'Stag's Horn', has an erect, simple or forked fruiting body with a downy stalk. It grows in groups on dead and rotting wood.
Have you seen one this autumn? 👀 ~ Jack
#FungiFriday
The candlesnuff fungus, also known as the 'Stag's Horn', has an erect, simple or forked fruiting body with a downy stalk. It grows in groups on dead and rotting wood.
Have you seen one this autumn? 👀 ~ Jack
#FungiFriday
Conservation Officer Hamish Murray captured this beautiful stonechat in the glorious morning sunshine. 📸🐦 ~ Jack
November 21, 2025 at 10:55 AM
Conservation Officer Hamish Murray captured this beautiful stonechat in the glorious morning sunshine. 📸🐦 ~ Jack
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Waiting on Poole Quay for the boat home and watching dozens of gulls heading towards the lagoon for their night time roost 🩵❄️ #WildBrownsea @dorsetwildlife.bsky.social @harbourbirds.bsky.social @dorsetbirdclub.bsky.social
November 20, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Waiting on Poole Quay for the boat home and watching dozens of gulls heading towards the lagoon for their night time roost 🩵❄️ #WildBrownsea @dorsetwildlife.bsky.social @harbourbirds.bsky.social @dorsetbirdclub.bsky.social
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Fabulous blue sky 🌞 day #Weymouth #DorsetBirds 🇬🇧 🪶
Portland Harbour quiet with 10 Red Brested Merganser & Grey Heron!
Ferrybridge @dorsetwildlife.bsky.social 120 Dunlin, 40 Ringed Plover, 8 Turnstone, 3 Little Egret, an overflying Lapwing ❤️ numerous Mediterranean Gull, Mipit, Greenfinch, 5 Skylark.
Portland Harbour quiet with 10 Red Brested Merganser & Grey Heron!
Ferrybridge @dorsetwildlife.bsky.social 120 Dunlin, 40 Ringed Plover, 8 Turnstone, 3 Little Egret, an overflying Lapwing ❤️ numerous Mediterranean Gull, Mipit, Greenfinch, 5 Skylark.
November 20, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Fabulous blue sky 🌞 day #Weymouth #DorsetBirds 🇬🇧 🪶
Portland Harbour quiet with 10 Red Brested Merganser & Grey Heron!
Ferrybridge @dorsetwildlife.bsky.social 120 Dunlin, 40 Ringed Plover, 8 Turnstone, 3 Little Egret, an overflying Lapwing ❤️ numerous Mediterranean Gull, Mipit, Greenfinch, 5 Skylark.
Portland Harbour quiet with 10 Red Brested Merganser & Grey Heron!
Ferrybridge @dorsetwildlife.bsky.social 120 Dunlin, 40 Ringed Plover, 8 Turnstone, 3 Little Egret, an overflying Lapwing ❤️ numerous Mediterranean Gull, Mipit, Greenfinch, 5 Skylark.
Do you want to turn your inbox wild? 👀
Subscribe to our email updates to keep up to date with all the latest nature news, wildlife events and special offers from Dorset Wildlife Trust. 👉 bit.ly/44VzHQ4 ~ Jack
📸 Isabella Vallier
Subscribe to our email updates to keep up to date with all the latest nature news, wildlife events and special offers from Dorset Wildlife Trust. 👉 bit.ly/44VzHQ4 ~ Jack
📸 Isabella Vallier
November 20, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Do you want to turn your inbox wild? 👀
Subscribe to our email updates to keep up to date with all the latest nature news, wildlife events and special offers from Dorset Wildlife Trust. 👉 bit.ly/44VzHQ4 ~ Jack
📸 Isabella Vallier
Subscribe to our email updates to keep up to date with all the latest nature news, wildlife events and special offers from Dorset Wildlife Trust. 👉 bit.ly/44VzHQ4 ~ Jack
📸 Isabella Vallier
The wonderfully named Little Piddle chalk stream at Lyscombe is being restored! 💧🙌 Once straightened for farming, it’s now being reconnected to the floodplain to boost wildlife and improve water quality. Read Lyscombe Ranger Ben’s blog 👉 bit.ly/3LMeyUE ~ Jack
November 20, 2025 at 7:15 AM
The wonderfully named Little Piddle chalk stream at Lyscombe is being restored! 💧🙌 Once straightened for farming, it’s now being reconnected to the floodplain to boost wildlife and improve water quality. Read Lyscombe Ranger Ben’s blog 👉 bit.ly/3LMeyUE ~ Jack
When you send someone one of our wonderful wildlife-themed e-cards, you're supporting Dorset Wildlife Trust and protecting wildlife and wild spaces in Dorset - all in a matter of clicks! Browse our range of e-cards here 🎄👉 www.dontsendmeacard.com/ecards/chari... ~ Jack
November 19, 2025 at 7:24 PM
When you send someone one of our wonderful wildlife-themed e-cards, you're supporting Dorset Wildlife Trust and protecting wildlife and wild spaces in Dorset - all in a matter of clicks! Browse our range of e-cards here 🎄👉 www.dontsendmeacard.com/ecards/chari... ~ Jack
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Please take a few moments to take part in "The Great Big Nature Survey" and share your views and let the @the-wildlifetrusts.bsky.social know how nature makes you feel?
and what should be done to protect it?
@dorsetwildlife.bsky.social
www.wildlifetrusts.org/great-big-na...
and what should be done to protect it?
@dorsetwildlife.bsky.social
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The Great Big Nature Survey | The Wildlife Trusts
The Wildlife Trusts would love to hear your opinions on how nature makes you feel, and what you think we as a society should (or shouldn’t) be doing to protect it. Take the survey today!
www.wildlifetrusts.org
November 18, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Please take a few moments to take part in "The Great Big Nature Survey" and share your views and let the @the-wildlifetrusts.bsky.social know how nature makes you feel?
and what should be done to protect it?
@dorsetwildlife.bsky.social
www.wildlifetrusts.org/great-big-na...
and what should be done to protect it?
@dorsetwildlife.bsky.social
www.wildlifetrusts.org/great-big-na...
Treecreeper spotted in Durlston woods this morning. ~ Hamish
📸 Hamish Murray
📸 Hamish Murray
November 18, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Treecreeper spotted in Durlston woods this morning. ~ Hamish
📸 Hamish Murray
📸 Hamish Murray
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Great to see @dorsetwildlife.bsky.social spreading the word about the value of Riverfly monitoring here!
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Citizen science tackles Dorset's invisible river pollution
Hundreds of volunteers for two citizen science projects monitor pollution in Dorset's rivers.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 17, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Great to see @dorsetwildlife.bsky.social spreading the word about the value of Riverfly monitoring here!
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
📢 NEW Wildlife Adoption! 📢
Our brand-new digital seal adoption is here — just in time for Christmas! 🦭✨
Your instant digital pack includes:
🦭 Seal fact file
🌊 Print-ready certificate
🦭 High-res seal photo
Give the gift of wildlife this Christmas from just £20 👉 bit.ly/4o0T9V4
📸 Sarah Hodgson
Our brand-new digital seal adoption is here — just in time for Christmas! 🦭✨
Your instant digital pack includes:
🦭 Seal fact file
🌊 Print-ready certificate
🦭 High-res seal photo
Give the gift of wildlife this Christmas from just £20 👉 bit.ly/4o0T9V4
📸 Sarah Hodgson
November 18, 2025 at 7:13 AM
📢 NEW Wildlife Adoption! 📢
Our brand-new digital seal adoption is here — just in time for Christmas! 🦭✨
Your instant digital pack includes:
🦭 Seal fact file
🌊 Print-ready certificate
🦭 High-res seal photo
Give the gift of wildlife this Christmas from just £20 👉 bit.ly/4o0T9V4
📸 Sarah Hodgson
Our brand-new digital seal adoption is here — just in time for Christmas! 🦭✨
Your instant digital pack includes:
🦭 Seal fact file
🌊 Print-ready certificate
🦭 High-res seal photo
Give the gift of wildlife this Christmas from just £20 👉 bit.ly/4o0T9V4
📸 Sarah Hodgson
What a find, Mark! 🤩🍄 This smelly, strange looking fungus is also referred to as octopus stinkhorn or octopus fungus, and was first discovered in the UK in 1914. Find out why this fungus smells like rotting flesh here 👉 bit.ly/3ObH5ki ~ Jack
November 17, 2025 at 3:40 PM
What a find, Mark! 🤩🍄 This smelly, strange looking fungus is also referred to as octopus stinkhorn or octopus fungus, and was first discovered in the UK in 1914. Find out why this fungus smells like rotting flesh here 👉 bit.ly/3ObH5ki ~ Jack
What a stunner, thanks for sharing Drew! 🤩🦋~ Jack
Merveille du Jour (Griposia aprilina)
My first encounter with the ‘Wonder of the day’. Attracted to light in my Dorset garden.
#TeamMoth
@the-wildlifetrusts.bsky.social
@dorsetwildlife.bsky.social
My first encounter with the ‘Wonder of the day’. Attracted to light in my Dorset garden.
#TeamMoth
@the-wildlifetrusts.bsky.social
@dorsetwildlife.bsky.social
November 17, 2025 at 12:09 PM
What a stunner, thanks for sharing Drew! 🤩🦋~ Jack
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Plenty of brents calling this morning, at least a dozen spoonies, redshank and curlew very vocal. Big flocks of tits, goldcrest and chaffinch. Siskin and redwing overhead. Busy autumnal morning! 🍂🕸 #WildBrownsea @dorsetwildlife.bsky.social @dorsetbirdclub.bsky.social @harbourbirds.bsky.social
November 16, 2025 at 8:56 AM
Plenty of brents calling this morning, at least a dozen spoonies, redshank and curlew very vocal. Big flocks of tits, goldcrest and chaffinch. Siskin and redwing overhead. Busy autumnal morning! 🍂🕸 #WildBrownsea @dorsetwildlife.bsky.social @dorsetbirdclub.bsky.social @harbourbirds.bsky.social
✨👕 New designs and new kid’s range just landed! 👕✨
With the festive season around the corner, our wildlife tees, hoodies and sweatshirts make perfect eco-friendly gifts. 🎁♻️
Browse our beautifully illustrated clothing range here 👉 bit.ly/3JbDYK5 ~ Jack
With the festive season around the corner, our wildlife tees, hoodies and sweatshirts make perfect eco-friendly gifts. 🎁♻️
Browse our beautifully illustrated clothing range here 👉 bit.ly/3JbDYK5 ~ Jack
November 17, 2025 at 7:25 AM
✨👕 New designs and new kid’s range just landed! 👕✨
With the festive season around the corner, our wildlife tees, hoodies and sweatshirts make perfect eco-friendly gifts. 🎁♻️
Browse our beautifully illustrated clothing range here 👉 bit.ly/3JbDYK5 ~ Jack
With the festive season around the corner, our wildlife tees, hoodies and sweatshirts make perfect eco-friendly gifts. 🎁♻️
Browse our beautifully illustrated clothing range here 👉 bit.ly/3JbDYK5 ~ Jack
Donate to our Water for Wildlife appeal today and help us build leaky dams to slow the flow of water, purchase riverfly monitoring kits to survey wildlife, fill in old ditches to restore the flow of rivers, and build more ponds for wildlife. 💪💧👉 bit.ly/3IWjPrA ~ Jack
November 15, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Donate to our Water for Wildlife appeal today and help us build leaky dams to slow the flow of water, purchase riverfly monitoring kits to survey wildlife, fill in old ditches to restore the flow of rivers, and build more ponds for wildlife. 💪💧👉 bit.ly/3IWjPrA ~ Jack
Join River Catchment Manager Amanda Broom & Assistant Conservation Officer Hannah Divine as they chat about why rivers matter, the threats they face, and how we can all help protect them — from small home habits to Dorset Wild Rivers projects. 💧
👉 bit.ly/43k5ZGy ~ Jack
👉 bit.ly/43k5ZGy ~ Jack
November 15, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Join River Catchment Manager Amanda Broom & Assistant Conservation Officer Hannah Divine as they chat about why rivers matter, the threats they face, and how we can all help protect them — from small home habits to Dorset Wild Rivers projects. 💧
👉 bit.ly/43k5ZGy ~ Jack
👉 bit.ly/43k5ZGy ~ Jack
Make a mini wildlife pond for your outdoor space. 💧🐸
Whether you have your own garden space, or just a front doorstep, you can make your own mini container pond and help to provide water for wildlife! 👉 bit.ly/44d15sc ~ Jack
📹 Clara Moseley
Whether you have your own garden space, or just a front doorstep, you can make your own mini container pond and help to provide water for wildlife! 👉 bit.ly/44d15sc ~ Jack
📹 Clara Moseley
November 14, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Make a mini wildlife pond for your outdoor space. 💧🐸
Whether you have your own garden space, or just a front doorstep, you can make your own mini container pond and help to provide water for wildlife! 👉 bit.ly/44d15sc ~ Jack
📹 Clara Moseley
Whether you have your own garden space, or just a front doorstep, you can make your own mini container pond and help to provide water for wildlife! 👉 bit.ly/44d15sc ~ Jack
📹 Clara Moseley
What a late-season dormouse boom at Powerstock Common nature reserve! 🙌Over the last two months our ecology team found almost 50 dormice in our monitoring boxes across the site, including a couple of late-season breeding females.
November 12, 2025 at 1:15 PM
What a late-season dormouse boom at Powerstock Common nature reserve! 🙌Over the last two months our ecology team found almost 50 dormice in our monitoring boxes across the site, including a couple of late-season breeding females.
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Large numbers or cormorant too... some roosting in the Villa Rd trees and easily spooked... photo taken from middle of a bramble patch 😅 #WildBrownsea @dorsetwildlife.bsky.social @dorsetbirdclub.bsky.social @harbourbirds.bsky.social
November 10, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Large numbers or cormorant too... some roosting in the Villa Rd trees and easily spooked... photo taken from middle of a bramble patch 😅 #WildBrownsea @dorsetwildlife.bsky.social @dorsetbirdclub.bsky.social @harbourbirds.bsky.social
✨👕 New designs and new kid’s range just landed! 👕✨
With the festive season around the corner, our wildlife tees, hoodies and sweatshirts make perfect eco-friendly gifts. 🎁♻️
Browse our beautifully illustrated clothing range here 👉 bit.ly/3JbDYK5 ~ Jack
With the festive season around the corner, our wildlife tees, hoodies and sweatshirts make perfect eco-friendly gifts. 🎁♻️
Browse our beautifully illustrated clothing range here 👉 bit.ly/3JbDYK5 ~ Jack
November 12, 2025 at 7:45 AM
✨👕 New designs and new kid’s range just landed! 👕✨
With the festive season around the corner, our wildlife tees, hoodies and sweatshirts make perfect eco-friendly gifts. 🎁♻️
Browse our beautifully illustrated clothing range here 👉 bit.ly/3JbDYK5 ~ Jack
With the festive season around the corner, our wildlife tees, hoodies and sweatshirts make perfect eco-friendly gifts. 🎁♻️
Browse our beautifully illustrated clothing range here 👉 bit.ly/3JbDYK5 ~ Jack
Will you help protect Dorset's Water for Wildlife? 💧👀
Every donation, big or small, makes a huge difference to wetland wildlife in Dorset.
Donate now 👉 bit.ly/43liLVd ~ Jack
Every donation, big or small, makes a huge difference to wetland wildlife in Dorset.
Donate now 👉 bit.ly/43liLVd ~ Jack
November 11, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Will you help protect Dorset's Water for Wildlife? 💧👀
Every donation, big or small, makes a huge difference to wetland wildlife in Dorset.
Donate now 👉 bit.ly/43liLVd ~ Jack
Every donation, big or small, makes a huge difference to wetland wildlife in Dorset.
Donate now 👉 bit.ly/43liLVd ~ Jack