Exe Reed Beds
Great views across reedbeds and the spectacular Exe Estuary. One of the largest tidal reedbeds in Devon and one of the best for birds.
Great views across reedbeds and the spectacular Exe Estuary. One of the largest tidal reedbeds in Devon and one of the best for birds.
It’s always intrigued me that Kenneth Grahame chose Toad as his most impulsive, charismatic and rumbustious character. An adrenaline junky, desperate to be loved and the antithesis of Ratty’s…
It’s a crisp, early spring morning of watery sun and rippling bird song. The April greens are at their sharpest, the leaves of every plant impossibly lush. The flowers pushing themselves up among…
Ratty. Sensible, dependable, loyal, comfortable in his own skin, writes Harry Barton, Devon Wildlife Trust's CEO. He is the character who gives the river in Wind in the Willows its sense of…
Badger. Strong defiant, paternal, the only animal that the weasels and stoats won’t dare to cross. It is badger who the other animals turn to when things go wrong, the reluctant leader who steps…
A fascinating walk with Keith Shawe, who has a PhD in botany and is studying to be a medicinal herbalist, in Halsdon Nature Reserve.
An early morning Spring walk around the Woodah Farm site in the company of a local ornithologist who will identify the resident songsters
A winter visitor, the well-travelled Bewick's swan is the smallest of our swans. It has more black on its yellow-and-black bill than the whooper swan. Look out for it around Eastern England…
Join bat expert Sarah Butcher or this Devon Wildlife Trust event at Bystock Pools nature reserve. The reserve is known to provide good bat habitat and we are likely to discover several different…
A walk through Griggs field and then into the woods along the public footpath to appreciate a wood in springtime