Field pansy
With its familiar features, the Field pansy is a delicate version of a garden favourite. Usually creamy-yellow in colour, it can be seen in fields and on roadside verges and waste ground.
With its familiar features, the Field pansy is a delicate version of a garden favourite. Usually creamy-yellow in colour, it can be seen in fields and on roadside verges and waste ground.
This purply-brown seaweed is a common feature on our rocky shores and on our dinner plates.
Sand sedge is an important feature of our coastal sand dunes, helping to stabilise the dunes, which allows them to grow up and become colonised by other species.
The song of the skylark has been the subject of many great musical and literary works. A quintessential feature of our farmland and grasslands habitats, it is declining rapidly with habitat loss…
The eerie, 'cur-lee' call of the curlew is a recognisable sound of wet grasslands, moorlands, farmland and coasts. Its long, downcurved bill is an unmistakeable feature and perfect for…
Flower-rich grasslands, once a part of every farm, are part of our culture. Most have developed alongside humans because of livestock grazing and cutting for hay. Many have archaeological and…
A wildlife pond is one of the single best features for attracting new wildlife to the garden.
The song of the skylark is a quintessential feature of our farmland and grassland habitats. One of our Healing Nature Project Officers, Mandy Bell, takes us on an emotive journey through The Folly…
Welcome to this first Durham Wildlife Trust little tern blog. Here you will find regular updates about the progress of our fabulous little terns and all of the interesting activity in and around…
Pots and containers are a great way of introducing wildlife features onto patios, or outside the front door. They are also perfect for small gardens or spaces like window ledges or roofs. Herbs,…
It was back in late 2019 when Living Uplands with Durham Wildlife Trust held a photographic competition with two categories, Landscape and Wildlife, for pictures of Weardale. The prize would be a…