Meet one of our members, Phil Winter, who was recently awarded Mammal Wildlife Photographer of the Year by the Mammal Society for this terrific photo of a young Fox.  https://sussexwildlifetrust.org.uk/news/behind-the-lens-with-phil-winter

Happy 100th Birthday Sir David Attenborough!💚 Portrait by Benji, drawn age 12 🌍 (animals drawn age 6 to 12) 🪶 ‘Thank you for inspiring us all across the world with a love for nature! I hope people will see my artwork and remember to care for our planet.’🌈💚

🦇 Why bats matter to gardens? Gardens that welcome bats are spaces with plenty of food, water and shelter. And these spaces are good for people too — improving health, wellbeing and connection to the natural world. Learn more: www.bats.org.uk/about-bats/w...

The first of the best bunch of flowers at Rye Harbour Nature Reserve. It's Sea Pea season. #UKwildlife #Sussexwildlife #wildflowers #carrotsandpeas @bsbibotany.bsky.social @sussexwildlife.bsky.social

My first Cinnabar Moth of the year at Rye Harbour Nature Reserve this afternoon. It's summer already, but Christmas only just finished... #UKwildlife #moths #insects @sussexwildlife.bsky.social

Beautiful day on Levin Down nature reserve. Lots of butterflies and moths, including this (I think) Lesser Treble-Bar moth and a Dingy Skipper and a male Common Blue butterfly. Very dry though after weeks of little rain. @sussexwildlife.bsky.social #moths #butterflies

It's very scarce, but not very yellow - Yellow Vetch (Vicia lutea) is starting to flower on the shingle at Rye Harbour Nature Reserve. #UKwildlife #Sussexwildlife #wildflowers #carrotsandpeas @bsbibotany.bsky.social @sussexwildlife.bsky.social

Take part in 30 Days Wild this June and claim your free resources pack. Children’s and Adult's pack available, inc: Weekly tracker, Seeds, Greeting card, Poster Sign up today and get everything you need for a month of wildlife, discovery and outdoor fun 👉 https://f.mtr.cool/vdnkxpqfzp

Our #BirdoftheDay is Hobby. Our only summer-visiting falcon, they arrive just as the first damselflies and dragonflies are on the wing. Watch for their acrobatic manoeuvres over river valleys, marshes and reservoirs from mid-morning on a warm day. #BirdofPrey 📷 Roger Wilmshurst

Bee-flies aren't really bees - but they are flies! 🐝They look, sound, and move like a bee 🐝Parasitically lay eggs in the nests of solitary bees  🐝Much like bees, are valuable pollinators 📷© Bob Eade/Kai Hilton/Tom Boyle

"He's grabbed us off our settee and showed us what's actually happening out there" 🌊🪸🐠 Nikki Oliver of the Sussex Kelp Recovery Project on inspiration from the great Sir David Attenborough, on his 100th birthday 🤩 @sussexkelp.bsky.social #DavidAttenborough #ocean #SussexKelp

Today we wish a very happy 100th birthday to the great Sir David Attenborough - an absolute icon of wildlife conservation! 🐋🐸🐦 #DavidAttenborough #nature

Meet our Head of Wilder Communities, Anna Odedun, who believes that "healthy ecosystems and thriving communities" are inseparable  https://sussexwildlifetrust.org.uk/news/meet-our-staff-head-of-wilder-communities-anna-odedun 📸 Emma Chaplin/Archie Taplin

We're looking for a Wilder Communities Officer who can connect people with Sussex’s marine and coastal environments. Apply by Tuesday 12 May https://f.mtr.cool/ywoywmqpyg  #GreenJobs #NatureRecovery #Sussex

House Martins need your help! Sussex Ornithological Society is doing a county wide House Martin Survey this year and are in need of volunteers - can you help? @sussexornitholo.bsky.social  @lewesswifts.bsky.social  📸Roger Wilmshurst  https://soshousemartins.birdsurvey.org.uk/

📢Vote for nature today! 🌱 #vote #nature #local elections

We have teamed up with The De La Warr Pavilion in Bexhill for Attenborough Appreciation Day on Sunday 10th May. It is FREE to attend - some of the activities on the day are fully booked but there is still loads going on!  https://f.mtr.cool/qtevhoowfb 📷© Big Wave TV

"For anyone who cares about wildlife, or about any issue that plays out at a local scale, these elections are important." Our Director of Conservation blogs about why local elections matter > https://sussexwildlifetrust.org.uk/news/its-not-all-about-potholes-what-do-local-elections-mean-to-me

Find out about an amazing free Waterlevels Walk at Pevensey on 16 May   https://sussexwildlifetrust.org.uk/news/waterlevels-walk-at-pevensey-16-may-2026

Two nice hoverflies from Castle Water, Rye Harbour NR, yesterday. Anasimyia lineata 'Snouted Duck Fly' and Dasysyrphus albostriatus 'Stripe-backed Brusheye'. #UKwildlife #Sussexwildlife #insects #hoverflies @sussexwildlife.bsky.social

The Red Mason Bee is very urban. It nests in mortar and cracks and fissures of our homes. It's keen on this home-made 'bee hotel' in our garden. #bees #insects #UKwildlife @sussexwildlife.bsky.social

Almost missed this massive Cockchafer (May Bug), lurking in leaf litter this morning. I used to see these as a matter of course in May. I no longer see these as a matter of course in May. #UKwildlife #insects #beetles #Sussexwildlife @sussexwildlife.bsky.social

Bring nature back into your life this summer. When we spend time with nature, we begin to value it & when we value it, we are more likely to protect it. #30DaysWild is a simple invitation to make time for nature in June 💚 Take part & get your free seeds 👉 https://f.mtr.cool/ilbxsounmz

A rare close encounter with two Wood Sandpipers feeding in a Sussex wetland this morning. A spring migrant that is in a hurry to refuel and then fly to breed in subarctic wetlands, from the Scottish Highlands in the west, east across Eurasia and the Palearctic. @sussexornitholo.bsky.social

A female Avocet catching tiny animals all day long to build 4 large eggs. Video at a quarter speed.

Post bank holiday back to work blues? We have the remedy - it's Tawny Owlets🦉 📷© Barry Cook

Wildflower takeover. Shoreham Beach nature reserve is blooming 🌼🌺✨ #pollinatorparadise #biodiversity #coastalflowers #wildflowers #bloomscrolling #southcoast #sussex #photography #sussex #england #flower @sussexwildlife.bsky.social

Masses of sea kale out on Goring beach. Smells wonderful! Lots of yellow Hawksbeard and lovely to see a Painted Lady. #vegetatedshingle #wildflowers #butterflies @savebutterflies.bsky.social @sussexwildlife.bsky.social

My first Swollen-thighed Beetle of the year, on Hawthorn at Castle Water, Rye Harbour Nature Reserve today. Shiny green jewels in Shakespearean strides! #UKwildlife #Sussexwildlife #insects #beetles @sussexwildlife.bsky.social

Barry Yates has been doing some beautiful macro photography: here's a lovely image of a Crab Spider with a hoverfly in a Buttercup

For #DeafAwarenessDay - Sarah Playforth updates us on how birding with a cochlear implant is helped by using the Merlin app https://sussexwildlifetrust.org.uk/news/experiencing-nature-differently-birding-with-a-cochlear-implant-with-sarah-playforth 📸 Dave Kilbey

It's our May Day Freepost Weekend. With free postage on all orders extended until midnight on Monday 4 May. Get ready for summer with our wild tops and tees Shop here > https://f.mtr.cool/lvrgslldty

Peepo! Some wonderful photos taken at Woods Mill by Tom Boyle - a shy Reed Warbler, a Whitethroat and a Broad-bodied Chaser

Flights of fancy, from a couple of weeks ago, by Barry Yates: "Some female Shoveler ducks are still testing the males in high speed flights that circle and twist over the wetlands. Only the fittest will pass on their genes and you can see who is the favourite..."

Ecologist Laurie Jackson has written a downloadable PDF guide to help users of I-Naturalist and I-Record develop their skills & improve knowledge - really helpful for community groups managing greenspaces for wildlife. https://f.mtr.cool/mrezwjvgrg

Beautiful evening at the 'Nightingales and Bluebells' Sussex WT event. 2 Nightingales, distant Cuckoo, bats, Bluebells, big moon and a lovely group @sussexwildlife.bsky.social

Spent a couple of hours at Woods Mill yesterday evening. A relatively small but perfectly formed nature reserve run by @sussexwildlife.bsky.social

Hearing about lots of Painted Lady butterfly sightings today - have you seen one? They are migrants to the UK during the summer flying in from Africa and southern Europe.  📸 Nigel Symington

Happy May Day. Our May desktop calendar featuring this angelic Little Tern, photographed at Rye Harbour Nature Reserve by Simon Watkins

Ranger Clive Dunny shared this photo of two of our hard working volunteers at the end of a hard day of fencing at The Mens Nature Reserve

A really good Hare day for Daryl Peters recently!

Do you wish you could spend more time outdoors in your local spaces this summer? More fresh air. More birdsong. More time to explore. #30DaysWild is all about enjoying a little nature throughout June.  Take part & get your free pack of seeds 👉 https://f.mtr.cool/upykihujqb

Amazing photo of a mid air Marsh Harrier/Crow dispute over Pett Level, by Roger Jones

Can you contain your excitement any longer?! The answer to what everyone was looking at in the staff carpark is here *drumroll*🥁 Rosemary Beetles! A common sight in parks and gardens, where they feed on herbs. Nature is everywhere - you just have to look 👀🪲 📷Beetles © Kai Hilton and Bob Foreman

Look at that beak!

A Common Redshank in breeding plumage, showing off its bright orange legs. Feeding in front of the Pett Level trail camera.

A late wintering, scaly-backed, male Ruff showing no sign of any of the elaborate feathers that gives it its name. Feeding at the Pett Level trail cam on 14th April. @sussexornitholo.bsky.social #ruff

The first of these Lapwing chicks hatched yesterday about 5pm - we saw the female take the eggshell away. This morning at 8am the female was still sitting on the nest, on the last egg to hatch or a recently hatched chick, while the 3 older chicks were waiting to get on with finding their own food.

This tiny Temminck's Stint was briefly at Pett Level yesterday, but it couldn't be found this morning. It's a rare migrant and is probably half way to somewhere like Finland already! The second part of the video is at half speed. @sussexornitholo.bsky.social #stint

Zoë Watson's sharp eyes spotted this Green Hairstreak #butterfly feeding from forget-me-knots today, otherwise I'd not have got a photo. @sussexwildlife.bsky.social @savebutterflies.bsky.social