Learning about Winter Birds ID with Avon Wildlife Trust
“Robin”, “blue tit”, “crow” – those are the easy ones, but what happens when the children in our lives point at a brown-coloured duck and ask us, “what’s that one?”.
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Growth in more ways than one: my experience of Avon Wildlife Trust’s Grow Leader placement
If you visited Avon Wildlife Trust’s six-acre site, Feed Bristol, and stayed for just an hour, you may interpret it as a huge urban food growing site. You wouldn’t be completely wrong. I did the…
Winter Birds
This year nature helped many of us through the most uncertain and unprecedented times. As we enter winter, the days are shorter, darker and wetter, but nature is still there for us, and there is…
Grow Wilder
Come and be inspired by Grow Wilder - our unique, six-acre site in Bristol. With ponds, woodland copses, hedgerows, a wildflower nursery and food growing enterprises, we demonstrate how land can be used productively for people and wildlife in an urban area.
Feeding the birds in winter
Attracting birds to your garden and local spaces is easy. Read on for tried and tested local advice to encourage birds where you live. Stephanie in BS9 puts out suet or fat balls in the winter,…
Discovering winter birds with My Wild City
Winter is one of the most magical seasons for birds, even in the city! As part of the My Wild City project with thanks to the National Heritage Lottery Fund, Bristol residents have been out and…
Hibernation – wildlife’s winter survival strategy
The Wildlife Trusts’ youth activism manager, Arran Wilson, draws on his background as a lecturer in zoology to explore what exactly hibernation is, and which animals rely on it to get through…
Winter Wildlife Appeal
We’re all looking for ways to help our local wildlife.
Together, we can halt the rate that our wildlife is disappearing. With The Wildlife Trusts across the UK, we’re part of a movement to…
Online Courses at Avon Wildlife Trust
Whether you are a beginner seeking to gain knowledge into wildlife or a keen enthusiast hungry for more, Avon Wildlife Trust offers a range of online courses tailored to suit your interest in the…
What to watch in wildlife in autumn and winter
By Charlotte Targett and Louise Treneman, Avon Wildlife Trust Living Landscapes Assistants
We often break the habit of regular time outdoors once the seasons change. But tune your senses…
Gallop into 2022 with Avon Wildlife Trust
Take inspiration from Folly Farm's resident Exmoor ponies, Wensleydale, Halloumi, Stilton and Mozzarella, and gallop into 2022 with Avon Wildlife Trust. There are so many ways you can make a…
Give a gift to wildlife this winter
As the weather turns colder and the nights draw in, our local wildlife needs your support more than ever.