Wilder Future: a toad's view
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 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 Roger Groos, 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
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
Guided walk looking and listening for bats around the cemetery and beyond with bat detectors. Will we find some lucky horseshoes?
The broad-bordered bee hawk-moth does, indeed, look like a bee! A scarce moth, mainly of Central and Southern England, it feeds on the wing and can be seen during spring and summer.