🧑‍🎨Fancy something a bit different & getting on your creative side? ✍️An introductory workshop to nature writing at the beautiful Paxton Pits Nature Reserve next week. Book a spot here www.wildlifebcn.org/events/2025-...

📣We're Hiring! ✅We've got a couple of great roles recruiting at the moment. Find our more and how to apply on our website 👉 www.wildlifebcn.org/jobs #conservationjobs #conservationwork #naturejobs

🙌We're still accepting entries for our October header photo of the month! 👉 When you submit your image please make sure to tell us what it is, which reserve you took it on & don't forget to include your name. 👏Please send your image to [email protected] by the 20th.

How do they DO that?? The skill involved in weaving this sling between reeds, making it secure enough to withstand wind and weather and strong enough to hold up to 5 eggs, (and sometimes a very large baby cuckoo), is phenomenal. Bravo reed warblers 👏👏 👌 Isn’t nature amazing? @wildlifebcn.org

🌿How do you inspire communities and young people to care for nature? 🎧Find out in our latest podcast episode - www.wildlifebcn.org/get-involved... Education Manager Matt Sutcliffe chats about keeping young people interested and engaged through some of their most difficult teenage years.

🦫The first beaver kits have been born in Northamptonshire for more than 400 years! 😍 We are so excited to see the new arrivals join the family at our Nene Wetlands Nature Reserve. Read the full story at www.wildlifebcn.org/news/first-b... Now we need your help to name them and their siblings 👇

👀Our reserves team were out at Old Sulehay & had a little hitchhiker - a lizard. 🌷Hareball corner on the footpath down to Ring Haw was living up to its name & in full bloom still. Visit one of our many reserves this week & see what you can spot 👉 wildlifebcn.org/nature-reserves 📸Matt Johnson

🙌We're now accepting entries for October header photo of the month for Facebook and Bluesky! 👉They must be taken on our nature reserves. When you submit your image please make sure to tell us what it is, where you took it and don't forget to include your name. Submission info in graphic 👇

“You just turn around a corner and see something fantastic and new — it’s amazing to watch.” It's wonderful to see how Alan, Boudica & their family are thriving and the impacts they are having at Nene Wetlands. Check out the rest of @wildlifebcn.org's recent Beaver Week content for more updates.

Here are some photos from my wander around Summer Leys last Thursday. Highlights included 1 Ruff, 1 Green Sandpiper, 1 Greenshank, 1 Swift and a Hobby. I also saw my first Wasp Spider and family group of Chiffchaffs. @wildlifebcn.org #birds #northantsbirds #nikonphotography

September header photo winner is Alan Coles with this brilliant photo of a damselfly appearing to hitch a ride on a grass snake at Summer Leys! 👏 Look out soon for how to enter for October!

🥳September events are here and we've got some wonderful events across our patch to get you out in nature. 👉Visit our website for further information and to book your spot! www.wildlifebcn.org/events Please note all info is correct at time of posting, check the website for up to date info 1/3

🧐Did you miss out on these sell out events last time? 👉If you enjoyed beaver week and want to see their habitat in real life join the team for a 'Behind the Scenes' tour of the beaver enclosure to find out what our newest residents have been up to. 🦫Book here www.wildlifebcn.org/events

From the wonderful @wildlifebcn.org Brampton Wood today -Guelder rose and briony berries. Also (top) the fruits of the special wild service tree (I think). #fruits Swathes of Devil's Bit scabious a bonus attracting so many pollinators @wildflowerhour.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social

A couple of Common Blue butterflies, at @wildlifebcn.org's Summer Leys Nature Reserve. #NorthantsWildlife #Invertebrates #Butterflies

Incredible find by reserves officer Jasmin! This beautiful wasp spider is weaving an enormous egg sac. Once it’s filled with eggs then, sadly, her work is done and she won’t see another year. But we’ll be on the lookout for wasp spiderlings in spring! @wildlifebcn.org @britishspiders.bsky.social

🦫Here are some of our Northants team Ben, Matt & Gav with answers to your popular Qs for BCN Beaver Week. 😍Join us for our last day tomorrow! To help support this work, & protect species across our region you can donate to our Wilder Future Fund wildlifebcn.org/wilderfuturefund

For BCN Beaver Week we invited the national Wildlife Trusts' Beaver Reintroduction Manager Dr Angelika von Heimendahl to write a guest blog about why why reintroducing this species in our countryside is so important. www.wildlifebcn.org/blog/thewild... @the-wildlifetrusts.bsky.social

🦫Six months ago we released beavers at our Nene Wetlands Nature Reserve in Northants and they have been very busy! It's Beaver Week here at the Wildlife Trust BCN - here's Ben to tell us how they have been helping regenerating the habitat. Watch here 👇 www.youtube.com/watch?v=dAzI...

A new road closure has appeared on the B660 by New Decoy/Holme Fen. Please consider this when trying to access the nature reserves or any events this week. Thank you. one.network?tmi=GB40917298 @wildlifebcn.org

🦫Time to test your beaver brains with our BCN Beaver Week quiz! Do you have all the gen on the newest aquatic mammal species in our region? Post your score and your own favourite beaver fact in the replies! quiz.tryinteract.com#/68a5e7f5596...

A new and exciting free #SummerSchool next week for 14-18yo interested in #furnituredesign, #materialscience, #architecture at @greatfen.org.uk in Cambs! Don't miss the last few spaces! 26th-29th August, 10am-4pm. FREE to attend, to book, please email [email protected].

A new and exciting free #SummerSchool for 14-18yo interested in #furnituredesign, #materialscience, #architecture... Don't miss the last few spaces! 26th-29th August, 10am-4pm. @wildlifebcn.org

🦫Join us for BCN Beaver Week!🦫 Here is the moment six months ago when beavers returned to Northamptonshire for the first time in 400 years! We’re marking the milestone with a week of beaver related fun - videos, blogs, a quiz and a Q&A with the team answering some questions from the public.

🤩We've still got lots of amazing events planned through August. 🌿From guided walks, to pond dipping and picnics, there is something for everyone. 👉Browse & book here www.wildlifebcn.org/events

🐭Water voles were found in nearly every waterway in England but are now thought to have been lost from 90% of these sites, making them the fastest-declining mammal in the UK.

👇Happening tonight! 💚An online workshop exploring climate anxiety, wellbeing and resilience, delivered by The Resilience Project, for young people aged 16 to 25 during Youth Week this week. 👉Book your free place here www.wildlifebcn.org/events/2025-...

🤩Join us for an exciting week of activities for young people aged 11-25 who love wildlife. Youth Week brings an opportunity for young people to experience new activities, get outdoors, & meet new people! Explore more events here www.wildlifebcn.org/youth-week

🥳Looking to celebrate after results day or know someone who is? 🦇🍕Join us for our pizza and bats results day party at Nene Wetlands to enjoy homemade pizzas before heading out on to the reserve to look for bats using bat detectors. 👉Book a spot here www.wildlifebcn.org/events/2025-...

🌿Join host Sophie as she chats to Monitoring & Research Officer @greatfen.org.uk Henry Stanier, about the wildlife that can be found colonising, & recolonising, our huge wetland restoration project in Cambs. Listen here or wherever you get your podcasts 👇 www.wildlifebcn.org/podcast

😍An amazing transformation is happening at New Decoy Farm in the @greatfen.org.uk in Cambridgeshire. 🌿25 hectares – or 60 football pitches - of former agricultural land is being turned into a wetland which will be home to birds, otters, water voles, dragonflies, frogs and toads. 1/4

🙌Join Wildlife Adventurer Becca Badger for some sociable outdoor family fun on Cambourne Nature Reserve this Wednesday. 🐝In this session, you'll do some bug hunting with nets, and make a bee hotel to take home or gift. Book here www.wildlifebcn.org/events/2025-...

📣Last chance for this fantastic event happening on Thursday night in Luton - 2 tickets left! 👉Join staff & volunteers on this night time walk around Bradgers Hill. Expect to see bats & many species of moths! 🔗Book here - wildlifebcn.org/events/2025-08-07-creatures-night-bradgers-hill

📸September mini photo comp is now open! 🌿Photos need to be taken on our nature reserves so please let us know where, when you send images to us. 🙏Send to [email protected] with 'photo contest' as your subject line by the 20th of August to be considered for September. Good luck!

Cambourne Nature Reserve is a beautifully designed and maintained place that sits right at the heart of the community, so it is no wonder that its management, @wildlifebcn.org has been named 'Charity of the Year' by South Cambridgeshire District Council this week. 🎉

We've been out talking to nature reserve visitors about why dogs need to be kept on a lead. Nik and Michael were at Beechwoods reserve near Cambridge yesterday to chat with dog walkers and give out leaflets. The site has had several issues with dogs off leads including one visitor bitten.

🙌Our August winner of the header photo of the month is Jean Fitch with a Wren in Bedford. 🌟We would like to highly commend this photo of a large Skipper at Woodwalton Fen by Charlie Ison. Look out for September's mini comp soon 👀 Thank you so much to all our other entrants!

🙌Youth Week is coming soon! 🤩Join us for an exciting week of activities for young people aged 11 to 25 who love wildlife from the 8th to 17th August. 🍕From foraging taster sessions, to a film screening, pizza party & more! See what's on offer here www.wildlifebcn.org/youth-week

Our CEO Brian Eversham met St Neots & Mid Cambs MP @iansollom.bsky.social at our Cambourne HQ where homes for 12,000 people have been built alongside habitat for wildlife. Brian raised our concerns about 1,000s of new homes in the Cambridge-Oxford growth area being promoted by the Government

What's about in the Great Fen? Catch up with @henrystanier.bsky.social's latest update! www.greatfen.org.uk/blog/henry-s...

🐷An ancient breed of pigs are creating healthy wetland areas for wildlife by chomping on a problem plant. Read the full story www.wildlifebcn.org/news/prehist... Support our work to protect wetland wildlife by donating to our Wilder Future Fund.

🥳August events have landed & we've got another fantastic line up across our three counties ready to get you out and about this summer. 👉Visit our website for further information and to book your spot! www.wildlifebcn.org/events 1/4

Some stats from our latest Impact Report 🐛693 species of invertebrates recorded at Strawberry Hill 🦫8 beavers and 116 water voles released 🕵️Volunteers carried out 2,064 hours of monitoring 🙋154 events delivered for adults, 230 for families, 86 for children www.wildlifebcn.org/impact-report

It's #NationalMothWeek! We're so proud of Kaitlyn, who's used her internship to fully tackle her fear of insects and is now one of our biggest moth champions! www.greatfen.org.uk/blog/great-f... #mothweek @wildlifebcn.org

💧Wetlands are vital for nature - but have declined massively & still under threat. 🐄At the Great Fen we've brought in grazing red poll cows to help us transform a drained landscape back into a wetland. Watch here youtube.com/watch?v=kxA7VV5Blww 👉& donate wildlifebcn.org/wilderfuturefund

😎Get outside this summer and start at Picnic Day on Wednesday! Discover our wildlife, make colourful crafts, climb the trees and swing to the skies, make marvellous mud cakes and eat real ones in the sun. 🧁 @wildlifebcn.org @huntspost.bsky.social #summerholiday #daysoutwithkids

He envisioned a joined-up Great Fen over 25 years ago, rallied support from local authorities, National Government and royalty! Alan Bowley looks back at the story of the Great Fen so far... www.greatfen.org.uk/blog/guest-p... @wildlifebcn.org #peatlands #landscaperestoration #conservation

When you understand that an oak tree can support 2,300 species, you know it’s ALWAYS worth stopping to take a closer look! And this week we found these incredible Sputnik-shaped egg sacs. They belong to a small comb-footed spider, Paidiscura pallens! @wildlifebcn.org @britishspiders.bsky.social

Reserves manager Aidan was on BBC Look East last night with a clear warning about the impact of dogs off leads on nature, livestock and people. The piece featured stories from volunteers and the public about distressing dog incidents they have witnessed at Pegsdon Hills reserve in Bedfordshire.

Last call for entires to our August header photo mini competition! Closing date is tomorrow! Please email your photos from our reserves to [email protected]. Remember to include you name, what it is and which reserve you took the photo on.