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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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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 🌳
@gloswildlife.bsky.social & @herefordshirewt.bsky.social
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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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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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
November 20, 2025 at 7:27 AM
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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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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
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From hungry insects on mild, sunny days to a feast for fieldfares, redwings and blackbirds, there's lots of fruit for wildlife in our orchards this autumn 🍎🍐🦋🐦💚
An apple on the floor, surrounded by vegetation. There are more fallen apples beyond it and, from the surrounding trees, we're obviously in an orchard.
November 11, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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What's next for #GreenFarm? 🤔

If you've followed our amazing journey of restoration on land next to #Monkwood nature reserve, why not join us online on Wednesday evening for a summary of what's happened so far and what we hope to get up to next 👇

www.worcswildlifetrust.co.uk/events/2025-...
We appear to be high up against a tree trunk - there's a large, leafless branch over our heads and the shadow of this and surrounding trees are stretching out into the field below and then off into the distance - the landscape of Green Farm. it's a sunny wintery day.
November 10, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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Good morning #Worcestershire 👋

A slightly different #MysteryMonday for this week...what on earth are our #WilderWorcestershire colleagues up to? 🤔
Two people appear to be 'swimming' through long grass
November 10, 2025 at 7:30 AM
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Looking for the perfect gift for the nature lover in your life? Our online shop has unusual gifts from handmade soaps, fragrant candles and puzzling jigsaws to festive Christmas cards and our 2026 calendar.

Every purchase supports #Worcestershire’s #wildlife www.worcswildlifetrust.co.uk/shop
A series of photos of shop items - soap in the shape of a fox, tea towel with robins on, mug with blue tit on, vial of sugary liquid to revive bees and a jigsaw full of birds. There is a blue background with snowflakes and the words 'shop for wildlife this Christmas'
November 9, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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What a fabulous wildlife hotel 🐌🐞🕷🦔💚

Our #WilderWorcestershire team work with fantastic groups, like the brilliant Worcester Cathedral Eco Group who are responsible for this prime real estate for bugs, beasties & even hedgehogs 👏

Read more www.worcswildlifetrust.co.uk/blog/wilder-...
3 photos - a wooden bug hotel, people looking up at a cathedral and an adult and child looking into a net for minibeasts
November 9, 2025 at 9:45 AM