🐦 How have you been getting on with your New Year's resolutions? Here's one we'll help you keep... Give nature a greater voice by becoming a Wildlife Ambassador. When you sign up, we will give you ideas and resources to make your campaigning voice heard. Sign up today 👉 buff.ly/l0nmTmU

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🌱 Drifts of snowdrops poking up through the woodland floor and along riverbanks are a welcome sight during these cold, winter months. They generally flower between January and March and are a sure sign that spring will return again! 👉 Discover more wildlife highlights for January: buff.ly/7o31iNR

Back to @bbowt.bsky.social’s C S Lewis Nature Reserve for Day 12 of #12DaysWild Thank you for the encouragement to get outside in #Nature #Oxford #5January2026 #Winter #12DaysOfChristmas

🌱 Reconnecting Bernwood Otmoor and the Ray is an exciting partnership-led initiative to restore and connect communities, nature, and heritage in the incredible landscape sitting across the Bucks and Oxon border. Made possible thanks to the National Lottery Heritage Fund. buff.ly/bjHSXgM

Who’s been walking in a winter wonderland? 👣❄️ Animal tracks are nature’s clues waiting to be found. Look for footprints in mud, frost-kissed pavements, or even snow on your #12DaysWild walks, and see who’s been exploring before you. Learn how to ID tracks here 👉 buff.ly/j7vh5fj

What colours do you associate with winter? Maybe grey for those short, rainy days. But winter is full of bright delights. If we look closely at nature, there are incredible colours to be found, even on the most overcast days. www.bbowt.org.uk/blog/thewild... #12DaysWild

We had a fantastic festive thankyou morning with our volunteers at Woolley Firs 🎄 Thank you to everyone who helped make this such a season highlight - Jody and Martha for the delicious food, Claire for leading the wreath-making, and all our volunteers for collecting the materials and tidying up!

🌳 You've probably heard about tree-hugging, but have you ever given it a go?🤗 For #12DaysWild, try embracing some bark or give a conifer a cuddle! 🌲

Start your new year with nature in mind! 🌱 ✳️ Change how you travel 🚲 ✳️ Learn how to save water 💧 ✳️ Go veggie one day a week 🥦 Small actions can make a big impact for you and for nature 👉 www.bbowt.org.uk/actions/chan... #12DaysWild

A common crane breeding attempt, hazel dormice bucking the trend, and a new fungus for the UK! These highlights from the past year are testament to the immense work of our nature reserve volunteers and work parties, wildlife trainees and staff. 👉 Read about these and more: buff.ly/sYgddbz

Boxing Day in Headington /3: scenes from the @bbowt.bsky.social CS Lewis Nature Reserve

🌅 A glorious sunset at College Lake! For one of your #12DaysWild challenges, why not find a spot in nature to enjoy the vibrant displays in the sky at dawn or dusk? 📸 Sarah Close

Our Rangers had a fun session making nature print decorations and practicing for the New Year Plant Hunt! See what Rangers sessions we're running near you in the new year 👇 buff.ly/PjxIDer

The magnificent South Bucks mid-week volunteer team stormed through their management work at Bacombe Hill, before enjoying the traditional festive jacket potato lunch and attempting Chris Trew's annual quiz! Thank you to the team for your incredible work throughout 2025 🙌

🎄 Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year from the BBOWT team! ❄️ 📷 Nature Discovery Centre by Craig Allen

❄️ In winter, both male and female robins sing to defend a feeding territory. They’re claiming all the food in the area, and warning any other robins to back off or face a fight! Thank you to @drtonygillie.bsky.social for sharing this fantastic photo!

We’re recruiting a Rural Surveyor who will help nature recover by guiding land management, supporting project delivery, and safeguarding the charity’s legal and contractual responsibilities. Apply now: www.bbowt.org.uk/jobs/rural-s...

🥔🔥 "The only task that is essential today is to produce a fire with fiery embers, in which potatoes can be cooked to perfection, our Christmas tradition." Read the latest blog from Charlotte Karmali, award-winning Volunteer Warden at Finemere Wood 👇 buff.ly/UltqWZn

🌳 #MendtheGap is a project managed by @chilternsnl.bsky.social and the North Wessex Downs National Landscape to deliver a number of activities to enhance land impacted negatively by the electrification of the Great Western Railway around the Goring Gap.

🎉 We had a great time celebrating the incredible work and dedication of our wonderful North Bucks volunteers with our annual Christmas barbecue at Meadow Farm! Find a volunteering opportunity near you 👉 bbowt.org.uk/volunteer 📸 Chloe Bradford

While blackcaps are typically summer visitors to our shores, these distinctive warblers have increasingly been seen around gardens in the UK from November to March.

We’re recruiting a Managing Director 🌿 Lead a values-driven ecological and land & farm consultancy where profits are reinvested into Berks, Bucks & Oxon Wildlife Trust, directly supporting nature’s recovery. Apply now: www.bbowt.org.uk/jobs/managing-director

❄️ This festive season, why not swap the hustle and bustle for frosty walks and moments in the great outdoors? Sign up for #12DaysWild and we’ll send you daily ideas, digital resources and activities to help you make the most of a truly wild winter. Register here 👉 wildlifetrusts.org/12dayswild

🚜 Join The Wildlife Trusts at the Oxford Farming Conference on 7 January for a live panel discussion exploring the future of UK food systems, food prices, and the vital role nature must play in creating resilient, healthy diets for all. 👉 Book your place online or in-person: buff.ly/13IiPs5

🌱 Ridge and furrow is a medieval ploughing technique which led to dry land for growing crops, and wetter furrows for drainage and to grow grass for grazing. These field patterns at Meadow Farm show that it hasn’t been cultivated for centuries. 📸 Chloe Bradford

🫶 Thank you to everyone who has remembered BBOWT in your will. We are fuelled by the hopes and passions of our supporters. We dream of a return to flower-rich meadows buzzing with life; nightingales singing in ancient woodlands; and clean waterways teeming with life. Your gift can achieve so much.

Big news! Water voles have been spotted in the River Thame catchment for the first time in decades. Full story: tinyurl.com/45b8fb5h Huge thank you to our volunteers, landowners, @naturalengland.bsky.social , @bbowt.bsky.social for helping make this possible.

Our Community Wildlife Officer, Barbara Polonara, had a great day at the Pakistani Welfare Association, meeting the ladies for lunch! It was a great opportunity to hear from potential community leaders and have meaningful conversations about nature's invaluable importance for mental health (1/2)

🌱 As part of our Engaging with Nature project, we worked with a fantastic group of volunteers over the last Christmas period to bring nature to Maidenhead town centre. www.youtube.com/watch?v=QmmU...

📣 Order your 2026 calendar by Tuesday 16th to make sure it arrives for Christmas! 👉 Get your calendar here: buff.ly/K9r4ovB

🌠 Look out for one of Mother Nature's greatest spectacles, the Geminids meteor shower, this weekend, which will be at its peak overnight on 13 and 14 December.

Today is D-Day for Biodiversity Net Gain. Steve Reed is set to decide whether this Labour Government will abandon all pretence of understanding and caring for nature by gutting BNG...

Say it's carol singers... ❄️ We're now just two weeks away from the start of #12DaysWild! Extend the magic of the festive season by signing up for our challenge to do one wild act a day from 25 December to 5 January. 👉 Sign up at wildlifetrusts.org/12dayswild

🐦 Hawfinches are the UK's largest finch and are easily identified, once you find one, by their very large bill, also by a repeated sharp metallic ‘pix’ call given from treetops.

Are you looking to buy binoculars or a scope as a Christmas present but need some advice? ❄️🎄🎁 Our optics specialists will be available at the following Wildlife Trust locations this weekend: 13/12 Potteric Carr @yorkswildlife.bsky.social 14/12 College Lake @bbowt.bsky.social #BirdingGear

❄️ As the cold weather descends, help out the birds visiting your garden by installing and maintaining bird boxes for them to roost in over winter, and providing food in these frosty months. 👉 View the range from our partners at Vine House Farm: bbowt.org.uk/vine-house-farm

🌱 We want to see BNG regulation supporting nature’s recovery. Our habitat banks are being designed and developed by our own team of ecologists and reserve managers, to create and enhance habitats and make new spaces for wildlife.

🐾 Pet owners - can you help? The VMD wants to understand how pet owners use flea and tick spot-on treatments, as chemicals in them may be entering waterways and potentially harming insects. 👉 Please take their survey: buff.ly/FXAXhAQ 📸 Peter Cairns/2020VISION

✅ We're delighted by the news that the Planning Inspector has dismissed a proposal, by a major corporate developer, to build on a large site at Waterstock on the River Thame.

🍒 As autumn draws to a close, there’s one question at the top of the keen birdwatcher’s mind – will it be a ‘waxwing winter’? 📸 Jon Hawkins - Surrey Hills Photography

Join us as a Seasonal Warden in West Berkshire. If you love the outdoors, know your wildlife, and enjoy chatting with visitors on the commons, this job could be for you! 🌿 Apply here: www.bbowt.org.uk/jobs/west-be...

🍄 Did you know that over 900 species of fungi grow at our Warburg Nature Reserve near Henley? 😲 Here are just a few of the ones recently spotted by Phil Townsend, Warden at Aston Clinton Ragpits.

Join us as a Café Shift Leader at College Lake! Help nature recover while delivering a fantastic guest experience at our busy reserve café in Tring 🌿 Apply now: www.bbowt.org.uk/jobs/cafe-sh...

Go paperless and send festive greetings to family and friends with our e-cards 🎄 Celebrate the season with a wildlife-themed e-card, with all donations supporting our work to protect and restore nature across our three counties.

❄️ Don't write off nature this winter! Sign up for #12DaysWild and join our challenge to do one wild thing each day between 25 December and 5 January! 👉 wildlifetrusts.org/12dayswild

🍄 It's still a few weeks until Christmas, but the ponies at Snelsmore Common have given us an early gift! 📸 Tom Hayward, Senior Land Manager

🎄 There are still spaces left for our festive wreath-making sessions this week! Enjoy a relaxing few hours and get creative with making a natural willow base and winter natural foliage to produce a beautiful wreath to take away and decorate your home. 👉 Book here: buff.ly/58GffeI

🍂 As autumn fades, we’re joined by wintering birds in our woodlands, lakes and gardens, while smaller creatures shelter in the undergrowth… Read below for our top 10 wildlife sightings this December 👇

📣 This last year we have seen great successes as we campaigned for wildlife both in our local area and on a national scale - but the challenges still continue, and we need your help! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ov-z...