Snipe
Listen out for the 'drumming' sound of a male snipe as it performs its aerial courtship display. It's not a call, but actually its tail feathers beating in the wind. Snipe live on…
Listen out for the 'drumming' sound of a male snipe as it performs its aerial courtship display. It's not a call, but actually its tail feathers beating in the wind. Snipe live on…
Join us at Mincinglake Valley Park for a guided tree identification walk led by Jon Freeman of the Forestry Commission. Can you tell a hazel from a beech? Or an ash tree from a rowan?
This well-camouflaged wader is a winter visitor to the UK, where it can be seen feeding on wetlands with a distinctive bobbing motion.
A walk through Griggs field and then into the woods along the public footpath to appreciate a wood in springtime
Guided walk looking and listening for bats around the cemetery and beyond with bat detectors. Will we find some lucky horseshoes?
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…
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…
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…
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…
Join us for a Bat Safari in the heart of Bovey Tracey. This will be a walk and talk event.
Join our Devon Wildlife Trust staff and volunteers for a guided tour of some of the best rockpools in the UK!