December SWOG newsletter now out and available here ➡️ mailchi.mp/swog/newslet... 🌲🐿🌿

Tell us your favourite tree to be in with a chance of winning in our #nationaltreeweek book giveaway 🌳📖➡️ www.swog.org.uk/swog-events/...

All welcome at our next webinar on 18th Nov with Rob Penn and John Orchard from @woodlandheritage.bsky.social Sign up here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/grow-trees... 🌳🪵 #woodculture

November SWOG newsletter now out and available here ➡️ mailchi.mp/swog/newslet... 🍂🌱🦇🪵 #woodlandnews

Looking forward to our next webinar, this Thursday at 6 pm with @batconservation.bsky.social All welcome, sign up here: www.eventbrite.com/e/an-introdu... 🌳🦇🍂

October SWOG newsletter now available here ➡️ mailchi.mp/swog/newslet... 🌳🍄🦇🌰 #woodlands #news #events #art

🔍 🍄 The #UKFungusDay Find-a-Fungus challenge has started! Join in by looking out for our 20 listed fungi, take photos & record your finds on iNaturalist. ➡️ How to take part: www.ukfungusday.co.uk/findafungus

A new SWOG book review: Mosses, Liverworts, & Hornworts of the World. A beautiful and inspiring exploration of an easily-overlooked group of plants 🌿 www.swog.org.uk/news/books-m... @princetonupress.bsky.social

September SWOG newsletter available here: mailchi.mp/swog/newslet... 🌳🦇🦌🪵

Calling all woodland owners, agents, professionals, businesses, land-owning organisations - final week to complete British Woodlands Survey 2025 (BWS2025) exploring woodland resilience - take part before 31 Aug: sylva.org.uk/bws2025 #woodlands #trees #resilience #environmentalchange #research

ㅤ Rare, early film of three stylish gentlemen demonstrating the use of a clapper stile gate in the English countryside. Incredibly, this was filmed in 1910 ㅤ

August SWOG newsletter available here: mailchi.mp/swog/newslet... 🌳🦗🪓 #woodland #newsandviews #events

The British Woodlands Survey 2025 (BWS2025) is now live - important for all woodland owners, agents, forestry professionals, businesses, land-owning organisations - take part: sylva.org.uk/bws2025 @forestresearchuk.bsky.social #woodlands #trees #resilience #environmentalchange #research

July SWOG newsletter now out and available here: mailchi.mp/swog/newslet... 🌳🌿 #woodland #newsandviews

A pellucid hoverfly on wild raspberry for #InsectWeek 🦋🐜🐞🦟🐛

For the summer solstice, some of the wonderful trees soaking up the sun at Allen Banks and Staward Gorge @nationaltrust.org.uk #green #woodland #escape

The wild service tree is the rarer woodland relative of rowan and whitebeam, appearing to germinate only in areas of ancient woodland, for which it is an indicator. It is found on chalk and limestone, but also on nutrient-rich clays. 🌳

A racket in the rangers’ hut in Beldorney made ranger Louise McLaren set up camera traps to find out what was going on. Look at these kits doing gymnastiques😂. Watch to the end to find out what’s for dinner. #cameratraps #nature #pinemartens #Scotland

Take a peek at the June SWOG newsletter, available here ➡️ mailchi.mp/swog/newslet... 🌳 #woodlandviews

🌳 Our New Film! Journey with us to Cornwall, exploring #ancientwoodlandsrestoration on land that now covers less than 3% of the UK @philsturgeon.com (Protect Earth) at High Wood & Mick Bracken (Woodland Trust) at Millook. Discover why such ecosystems matter and how they bring hope for biodiversity!

🌳 Woodland owners and managers – our oaks need you. This summer, assess 5+ trees and share the data via Forest Lab to support research into Acute Oak Decline. Sign up 👉 www.forestresearch.gov.uk/news/145159-...

May SWOG newsletter now out and available here: mailchi.mp/swog/newslet... 🌳🌼 #woodland #newsandviews #books #events

A new SWOG book review: Trees of Britain and Ireland by Jon Stokes. An excellent resource for woodland owners and tree enthusiasts 🌳 www.swog.org.uk/news/books-t... #treeID #woodlandwildlife @princetonupress.bsky.social @thetreecouncil.bsky.social

For Easter, some new life being transported across the bridge 🐣 #woodlandwildlife

Join us for what's sure to be a fascinating webinar with Dr Rowan Jaines presenting An Alternative View of Woodlands, on Thursday 1st May at 6 pm. All welcome, sign up here: www.eventbrite.com/e/an-alterna...

How to deal with grey squirrels...a growing threat to woodland management living-woods.org.uk/news/how-to-...

April SWOG newsletter now out and available here: mailchi.mp/swog/newslet... 🌳📖

All welcome at our Lyme Disease Awareness webinar on Thursday 3rd April (6 pm) with @lymediseaseuk.bsky.social Sign up here: www.eventbrite.com/e/lyme-disea... 🌳🕷️

Celebrating International Day of Forests and the start of spring with a wood anemone, an ancient woodland indicator that's favoured by hoverflies 🌳🐝 #ForestDay

The flowers of Blackthorn, AKA Sloe, appear early spring, before the leaves, turning hedgerows into clouds of blossom. Brilliant for wildlife, it provides an early source of pollen for bees & insects, is a food plant for Brown Hairstreak Butterflies & its thorns provide protection for nesting birds

We have a FREE webinar this Wednesday at 12pm - 1pm A Beginner’s Guide to Trees and the Law Sign up below! buytickets.at/thetreecounc...

The first @protect.earth traditional hedgelaying course was such a success we’re running another! March 22nd, near Lloyney / Knighton. Tools (and first aider 😬) provided. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/free-hedge...

We created a starter pack! go.bsky.app/2MxwTe7

Small woodland owners are invited to share their views on the viability of group applications for managing dangerous ash trees at a CCRI/Forest Research group ash grants workshop, 3-5 pm on 17th March. Sign up here by 12th March: forms.office.com/e/LtYiWKUJQJ...

Palaeontologist Richard Fortey will continue to inspire and educate via his books, including this wonderful account of his 4 acres of beech woodland in the Chilterns 🌳🪳

Today is #WorldWildlifeDay! 🐦🐞🦇 🦎 We want to celebrate just how important trees are for our wonderful wildlife! 🌳💚

March SWOG newsletter available here ➡️ mailchi.mp/swog/newslet... 🌱🌳🌱 #woodland #newsandviews #escape

A brightly coloured crow, the jay is unmistakeable. It is mainly pinkish-buff, with a black tail, white rump, black 'moustache', and black-and-white wings that sport a brilliant blue patch. 📷 Paul Cleasby

Curious about how best to manage the #hedgerows on your land? 🌳Watch the first of this two-part video series to learn how to rejuvenate your hedges by #coppicing, laying and incorporating hedgerow trees with our expert Megan 👇 🎞️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=_UV3... Thanks to WoodlandsTV & Tom Hartwell.

Catkin is derived from the Dutch word katteken, which means kitten, since the flowers look like fluffy kitten tails. They’re also known as lamb’s tails for the same reason, and this name has a stronger association with the onset of spring. 😻 📸Mark Monk-Terry

Looking for some recommendations…… Is anyone successfully using a free app on iPhone that plots an area on a map via walking it on the ground? Eg field, woodland compartment etc Thank you!

Some beautiful woodland primroses for Valentine's day 🌹🥰 #nemophilist

⭐ NEW COURSE! 5th June: Managing Woods for Wildlife Tutor: Mark Vallance, Berks, Bucks and Oxon @TheWildlifeTrusts Location: Bicester, OX5 2RF. 🌳 Enhance biodiversity in woodland ecosystems. 📣 Book now! www.rfs.org.uk/events/managing-woods-for-wildlife/ #RFSEvents #Training #WoodsForWildlife

We need volunteersto help monitor the pests and diseases affecting our trees and woodlands. Can you help? 🩺 🌳 Join the award-winning #Observatree network and help survey tree health across the UK, protecting trees from future threats 📈 More info at 👉 https://buff.ly/42Pw7th

Super excited to see my next book published and how nature lovers, forest explorers, history sleuths, walkers and those inspired by the glorious landscapes of Wales receive this next guidebook in The Forest Guide series #books #nature #Wales

February SWOG newsletter now out & available here ➡️ mailchi.mp/swog/newslet... #woodland #news #wildlife #art

This Thursday! Join us for our 'Collecting, calculating and storing woodland inventory data using myForest' webinar with @sylva.org.uk Sign up here: lnkd.in/evr54tjT @reheatrt.bsky.social #woodlandmanagement

A new SWOG blog considers how to minimise the impacts of dog treatments on woodland wildlife 🌳🐾 www.swog.org.uk/news/pet-tre...

Some good news to celebrate #RedSquirrelAppreciationDay