This weekend get free socks with your clothing order on our merchandise store 🧣 Use the code SOCKY at checkout for a pair of randomly selected bamboo socks. A great stocking filler or a treat for yourself for being so organised 🧦 https://suffolkwildlifetrust.teemill.com/

📣 We have 4 days to raise a further £20,000 for nature in Suffolk! Thanks to one of our generous major donors, match funding on your donations can run for another 4 days via our website. All donations, up to £10,000 total, will be doubled until midnight on Sunday 14th December.

We have just 7 days to raise £15,000 for nature’s recovery in Suffolk! Until 9 December any donation made via the Big Give website will be doubled. This means if you donate £25, we’d receive £50, and your support has double the impact. 🔗 https://donate.biggive.org/campaign/a05WS000005AY5ZYAW

"Nature, the environment, and the local economy will all thank us for choosing more local, seasonal food." Sam from our Wilder Landscapes team explores the vital links between farming, food and biodiversity - and how small choices on our plates can make a big difference.

Join us online with Dr Simone Bullion, to discover the world of Suffolk's mammals. Learn how to tell these small mammals from one another using simple identification tips alongside their ecology. https://www.suffolkwildlifetrust.org/events/2025-11-25-wildlife-live-webinar-small-mammal-id

200 trees for Trimley Marshes 🌳 A team of volunteers helped our Warden to plant saplings where non-native species had been thinned. Including rowan, hazel, & hawthorn these trees will provide food and nesting opportunities. Thank you to those who came out to make light work of planting 200 trees!

⭐ The winners of our winter jumper competition have been chosen! The design selected from the family category is "Snowy Kingfisher" by Evan Knott. We love the collage effect. Take a closer look at Evan's design - https://suffolkwildlifetrust.teemill.com/product/kids-snowy-kingfisher-jumper/

The colder weather has started to make an appearance, but so has the winter wildlife! Despite the darker evenings winter can be an excellent time of year to experience nature and wildlife in Suffolk. 📰 https://www.suffolkwildlifetrust.org/blog/suffolk-wildlife-trust/winter-suffolk

⭐ The winners have been chosen! Chosen from the adult category "Time to Rest" by Lydia Woods shows different species overwintering together with an intricate design. Take a closer look at Lydia's design - https://suffolkwildlifetrust.teemill.com/product/womens-oversized-time-to-rest-crewneck/

🌳 Looking for advice on planting, habitats & flooding? We're inviting those managing land in the River Deben catchment to the Woods for Water event. Join our team alongside others to discuss opportunities for tree planting & connecting existing habitats for greater biodiversity & water quality.

Our Lackford Lakes nature reserve is looking beautiful in the autumn light 🍂 Our winter bird numbers are gradually building up on the reserve as winter flocks of duck along with smaller birds such as siskins begin to arrive. 📸Mike Andrews, Visitor Experience Officer at Lackford Lakes

Thinking about seasonal gifts? 🎄 We've got that perfect something for the nature lovers in your life. Plus, all purchases online and at our visitor centres help fund vital conservation work for our county's wildlife. Browse our online range - https://www.suffolkwildlifetrust.org/shop

A new pond for wildlife at our Redgrave and Lopham Fen nature reserve 🌾 This new pond features sloping edges and has transformed this area of fen ready to attract aquatic invertebrates, dragonflies, water voles, fen raft spiders and many more. 📸Debs Crawford, Valley Fens Assistant Warden

There's one week to go until entries close! Whether you are a design enthusiast or just starting out, we would love to see your artwork that celebrates winter wildlife in Suffolk. The winner will be the star of our jumper collection & receive merch with their design 👕 https://ow.ly/ZZZm50XnCPY

Yesterday we attended the launch of Red Fifty Five 📕 A beautiful collection of poetry by Laurel nominated poet Eliza O'Toole. The book features a collection of poems inspired by Eliza's love for the Suffolk landscape and the UK's endangered and vulnerable moths.

'Tis the season for festive jumpers! 🧣 Enter our Winter Jumper Design competition and your artwork could be the star of the show and help raise funds for vital conservation work in Suffolk. 🔗 https://www.suffolkwildlifetrust.org/blog/suffolk-wildlife-trust/members-winter-jumper-design-competition

From purple swathes of heather to riverside meadows, Knettishall Heath has an extraordinary mix of habitat. One of Suffolk’s largest surviving areas of Breck heath, it is an ancient place where the past is written into the landscape.

Grateful to @suffolkwildlife.bsky.social Carlton Marshes for inviting me back to deliver a second public #lichen event earlier this month. And to the participants too, for their lovely feedback! Looking forward to returning this spring for a full-day lichen workshop. aspenecology.com/discovering-...

This week, we're talking about #bonfires! 🦔 🚫 🔥 We've put together top tips on how best to reduce the risk of harming #hedgehogs this #bonfirenight - please share it far & wide! STOP. MOVE. CHECK! ⬇️ www.britishhedgehogs.org.uk/rememberhedg... #rememberhedgehogs #LookBeforeYouLight

Our October Wild News Round-Up is here! This months highlights include a big beach clean, a dormouse survey , and rare birds making guest appearances, along with much more. Read the full round-up here - https://www.suffolkwildlifetrust.org/news/wild-news-round-october-2025

One of the two #adder hibernacula created on dry sunny slopes. Scrub nearby to protect from predators and plenty of sun to bask in when the adders emerge in spring. Thanks to the farm wildlife team at @suffolkwildlife.bsky.social. @arableplants.bsky.social @nffn.bsky.social @jarawson.bsky.social

Autumn is in full swing and it's the perfect time to step outside and explore nature 🍂 Discover nature on your doorstep and embrace the changing of the seasons with our Autumn in Suffolk Guide - https://www.suffolkwildlifetrust.org/blog/suffolk-wildlife-trust/explore-suffolk-autumn-0

This Friday 📢 Join local weaver Jo Hammond at our Arger Fen & Spouses Vale nature reserve to begin a 5 week willow weaving experience and learn practical hands on skills using natural materials. Find out more and book your place - https://www.suffolkwildlifetrust.org/events/weaving-landscape

We've launched our first ever winter jumper design competition! Exclusively for our members, as thank you for their ongoing support, entrants can enter to have their artwork on a jumper available on our online apparel store. https://www.suffolkwildlifetrust.org/winter-jumper-design-competition

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 👏