Our Young Naturalists spend a night at Blashford Lakes Nature Reserve, exploring how the area changes at different times of day.

Our beautiful chalkstreams are in decline. Discover how communities of the Test and Itchen headwaters are joining a new Heritage Lottery Funded project, called Watercress & Winterbournes.…

Jim, reported the sighting of a great white egret on Ivy Lake the other day and speculated that it might be “Walter” our regularly returning bird. This bird was ringed in 2003 in France and first…

Although there has not been much sign of migrating birds at Blashford Lakes so far, there have been some insect arrivals. The birds at this time of the year are returning from breeding to the…

Earthworms are one of the most overlooked components of a healthy ecosystem - there is far more to the humble earthworm than most people imagine!

Despite continued warm nights the number of moths coming to the trap are actually declining, I suspect it might have got too warm and especially dry for many moths to cope with. This does not mean…

The prolonged dry conditions have caused the grass to go brown almost everywhere you look at the moment. Grasses are a group of plants that are drought adapted and when it rains you can be…

Yesterday the Government released the new National Planning Policy Framework for England. And the good news is that Local Wildlife Sites are back in!

Things have been relatively quiet at Blashford recently, although also very busy! Quiet in that we are in a time when the breeding season is more or less over and the migration season has hardly…

A brief look in to the life of adult purple emperors and what makes them (and the people that seek them) such fascinating creatures.