A moment of calm with six spoonbills at our Dingle Marshes nature reserve 🌾 Containing Britain's biggest fresh water reedbed and located in a prime coastal condition Dingle Marshes is a haven for wading birds, and an excellent stopping-off point for many migrators. 📹Jamie Smith, Warden

What's coming up at our Youth Action for Nature Day? A range of workshops & inspiring talks from amazing youth-led groups including BTO Youth Ambassadors, UK Youth 4 Nature, Kids Against Plastics and Youngwilders! https://www.suffolkwildlifetrust.org/events/2025-10-18-youth-action-nature

Not long to go until our first ever Youth Action for Nature Day! Hosted by our Youth Board members they are connecting 16-25 year olds throughout the county who care for nature and climate. www.suffolkwildlifetrust.org/events/2025-...

Buds, flowers and fruit of Bramble at @suffolkwildlife.bsky.social Lackford Lakes #Suffolk. #WildflowerHour

Wilder Ecology, our ecological consultancy, has successfully achieved three accredited certificates from British Assessment Bureau. Highlighting the teams dedication and excellence to health and safety, quality and environmental management standards. www.suffolkwildlifetrust.org/news/wilder-...

Martlesham Wilds wouldn’t have been possible without a legacy from Pam and George Ford, who in 2022 left a gift in their will to help purchase the land. Martlesham Wilds is one of newest nature reserves located on the River Deben is a truly special place for nature.

It's Remember a Charity Week 💡 Making a gift in your will to Suffolk Wildlife Trust is one of the most effective ways you can support nature local to you. Find out more on our website - www.suffolkwildlifetrust.org/support-us

More tiny finds from @suffolkwildlife.bsky.social Redgrave & Lopham Fen: Five-striped Spider Thantaus striatus recorded here for the first time since 1957 and the Nationally Rare and Endangered Jumping spider Attulus [Calositticus] caricis. Photos: Anna Maka. @britishspiders.bsky.social

A real glitter ball of a spider @suffolkwildlife.bsky.social Redgrave & Lopham Fen today - maxing at just 3mm long, the minute Ray Spider Theridiosoma gemmosum has silvery plates of guanine shining through its cuticle. Photos Anna Maka. @britishspiders.bsky.social

Our Farm Advice team have recently come to the end of our busy pond survey season. Here’s a four spotted chaser snapped by Helen from the team. Farmland ponds are vital resources in the landscape - often the best source of clean water 💦 #districtlevellicensing

Our latest Wild News Round-Up is now live on the website. Discover what the busy month on July had in store for our teams across Suffolk, including butterfly surveying, farm visits, and training new volunteers 🙌 🗞️Read it here: www.suffolkwildlifetrust.org/.../wild-new....

A great team out today @suffolkwildlife.bsky.social Carlton Marshes, surveying the still expanding range of the Fen Raft Spider population established there in 2011/12 - and meeting a few other fun species too! @britishspiders.bsky.social

To kick start #NationalMarineWeek, we've undertaken a juvenile fish survey at Martlesham Wilds, focusing on our saltmarsh habitat as a refuge for estuarine fish species.

Great news! 🎉 Five satellite-tagged Cuckoos have made the perilous journey across the Sahara Desert in Africa to reach their non-breeding grounds. 😀 Follow BTO Cuckoos race across the world on our interactive map ➡️ www.bto.org/cuckoos #Ornithology

1/ Exciting ringing recovery! 😮 The first Hungarian-ringed Reed Warbler to be found in Britain & Ireland was recorded by Justin and Dan at @suffolkwildlife.bsky.social Trimley Marshes at the beginning of May this year. #Ornithology #UKBirding 📷 Hungarian-ringed Reed Warbler by Justin Zantboer.

Lecanora hybocarpa auct br, Carlton Marshes, Suffolk, England. First record for hectad, even accounting for records of L chlarotera, with which this #lichen was until recently confused. Magnified apothecia sections show characteristic descending epithecial crystals glowing in cross-polarised light.

Our walk today at SWT Carlton Marshes. Arrowhead, Bladderwort, Marsh Woundwort & Frogbit @suffolkwildlife.bsky.social

Volunteers Paul and David recorded the highest number of butterflies in 7 years on their survey at Lackford Lakes this month 🦋 Species included, gatekeeper, brown argus, small copper, and green-veined whites with over 200 individual butterflies recorded!

Lovely stroll around @suffolkwildlife.bsky.social Bradfield Wood NNR today. So many butterflies, it cheers my heart. More silver-washed fritillaries in one place than I've seen in total over the last couple of years - wonderful! @bc-suffolk.bsky.social

It was an strangely welcome overcast morning, brightened by the many flowers & bugs @suffolkwildlife.bsky.social Carlton Marshes: common cudweed, hemp agrimony, tufted vetch and perennial sow thistle vivid against the grey skies #WildflowerHour

There is a Swift walk, talk and pint this evening in Woodbridge, meeting in the Market Hill square at 7pm. Learn about Swifts, their plight and how easy their conservation is, whilst they swirl overhead. All are most welcome @suffolkbirdgroup.bsky.social @suffolkwildlife.bsky.social

Meet the Worlingham Marshes cuckoos who are part of the BTO cuckoo tracking project 🗺️ Joining Wilfrid the two new arrivals, named Arthur (Pic 1) and Ashok (Pic 2) will have their epic migration journey tracked and you can keep up to date with their movements with the BTO’s interactive map.

Found this Alyxoria viridipruinosa while on recce for #lichen workshop at Carlton Marshes, Suffolk, England. Described as new species in 2011 after discovery in Suffolk! Nationally scarce but under-recorded. Characterised by green pruinose lirellae, K+ yellow reaction in section, distinctive spores.

PLEASE don't litter your cigarettes. Yesterday a member of staff found cigarettes discarded on one of our nature reserves. During the summer months, our reserves can become very dry, and a discarded cigarette could easily start a wildfire, causing devastating damage to wildlife and habitats.

It's Swift Awareness Week 🪶 These impressive migrators spend almost all of their life in the air. Find out how our Conservation Adviser Cathy, with the help of @sosswifts.bsky.social, is working to boost the population in Suffolk www.suffolkwildlifetrust.org/blog/suffolk...

WOW nearly 45,000 swift boxes!! What an incredible achievement John 👏

Excting finds at Lackford Lakes today as our team carried out reptile and freshwater surveys 🐍🐟 Many of the species found can only thrive in good water quality, so their presence is a wonderful indication that our efforts to restore wetland habitats are paying off! List in the comments 👇

It's the egg-laying season @suffolkwildlife.bsky.social Redgrave & Lopham Fen - three female Fen Raft Spiders Dolomedes plantarius holding their precious egg sacs... and a male hanging around waiting for new opportunities. @britishspiders.bsky.social

What a fantastic find on one of our reserves 😍 Thank you for sharing Alan!

Sound on 🎶 This wonderful footage of a #cuckoo was captured on a trail camera on our Carlton Marshes nature reserve, near Lowestoft. One of the best sounds of the British summer 🌞 Have you heard many cuckoos this year?

⚠ LAST CHANCE to email to your MP 👇 action.wildlifetrusts.org/page/171483/... So far, nearly 1,000 people in #Suffolk have emailed their MP about the #UKGovernment's Planning & Infrastructure Bill. THANK YOU for speaking up for nature 💚

Today is #GlobalRunningDay, so here's my fundraising page for running the Ipswich Half Marathon on behalf of @suffolkwildlife.bsky.social, a charity of which I’m honoured to be a trustee. Very grateful for any sharing or donating you feel able to do. Thank you! www.justgiving.com/page/patrick...

Looking for your next challenge? Join Team Suffolk Wildlife Trust at our upcoming events, share your love for running and do something wonderful for wildlife at the same time 🌿 🏃‍♂️Ipswich Half Marathon, 21 Sept 🏃‍♂️The Whole Hog, 5 Oct www.suffolkwildlifetrust.org/fundraise

Thank you to everyone who visited us at the Suffolk Show in our wildlife area 🦋 We welcomed over 5,000 of you to our area. Our team spent the two days encouraging positive action for nature and championing local wildlife, with free family activities and our new Mission 2030 campaign.

Beautiful Silver-studded Blues now emerging on the Suffolk coast, males and females, mostly on the Bell Heather as it comes into flower (30th May 2025) @suffolksnaps.bsky.social @bc-suffolk.bsky.social @savebutterflies.bsky.social @suffolkwildlife.bsky.social

Meet Alice, our Wilder Rivers Adviser. Working within the Wilder Landscapes team, Alice leads on habitat projects like floodplain revitalisation, surveying, pond restoration and much more. 📰 Read more about Alice - www.suffolkwildlifetrust.org/.../meet-tea....

Join me at @suffolkwildlife.bsky.social's Carlton Marshes reserve on 8 June for peek into hidden, beautiful and ecologically vital world of #lichens! Includes time spent out on reserve spotting lichens 'in the wild'. Your nature walks won't be same again! www.suffolkwildlifetrust.org/events/2025-...

Celebrating National Nature Reserves Week 🌳 This week celebrates reserves across the country with National Nature Reserve status, these reserves often have national significance with unique habitats and are centres of scientific research.

It's National Hedgerow Week! Hedgerows not only look great, they: 🌳 Capture carbon 🌳 Provide wildlife with shelter 🌳 Connect different habitats, acting as an important wildlife corridor 🌳 Flower (& produce nuts & berries), vital for invertebrates and birds treecouncil.org.uk/national-hed...

Get hands on with our conservation team 🐭 Our Wilder Rivers Adviser is running free field sessions on water vole monitoring at two of our nature reserves 📆 Carlton Marshes 14 May - www.suffolkwildlifetrust.org/events/2025-... 📆 Lackford Lakes 17 May - www.suffolkwildlifetrust.org/events/2025-...

Captains Wood @suffolkwildlife.bsky.social today , lovely to hear cuckoo , garden warbler , lesser & common whitethroat

Sunday is International Dawn Chorus day! Early risers, make sure to get outside or open a window and listen to the symphony of bird song. Some species of bird will sing throughout the day, but it's at dawn as the sun rises and the day begins that the song of many different birds join together 🐦

Nature & growth can thrive together — but only with the right choices The new Planning & Infrastructure Bill could bridge the gap, or it could deepen the divide Find out what it means for nature in Suffolk & how you can help make nature’s voice heard 👇 www.suffolkwildlifetrust.org/news/what-ne...

The countdown is on! 🕜 We only have days until the 29th & need just over £800 to secure the full match funding! Any donation, whatever the size can make a difference for wildlife in Suffolk. We are in a nature crisis but your support can help change the tide 🦋 donate.biggive.org/campaign/a05...

Give back to nature this Earth Day 🌎 We know our planet has incredible habitats for wildlife to thrive. But we also know that nature is in crisis, & we are close to the tipping point. If changes aren't made by 2030, we could see a drastic & irreversible decline in our natural environment & wildlife

Strike a pose 🕺 This rather confident common toad was caught on camera by our Wilder Landscapes Project Officer, Lizzie, as it was on it's way to it's ancestral breeding ground 🐸 The overcast weather saw over 40 toads making their way to the pond, some already paired up!

Our species of the month is the swallow (Hirundo rustica) These attractive migratory birds can be identified by their long forked tail, pale belly and red throat and face. Arriving from April, swallows are sure sign of spring🌸

Our March recap is here, across Suffolk our teams have been working hard! From new events to boost nature connectedness to speaking about an exciting project along the River Waveney, find out more in our Wild News 📰 🔗https://www.suffolkwildlifetrust.org/.../wild-news-our...

Thank you to Suffolk Coastal MP - Jenny Riddell-Carpenter - for speaking up for nature during the House of Commons debate on the Planning and Infrastructure Bill this week. Read Jenny's full statement in Parliament 👇 hansard.parliament.uk/HoC%20Debate...