I was working at Fishlake Meadows yesterday morning and it was wonderful to be somewhere so green and full of flowers. Access to water is not a problem for the plants at Fishlake so they have kept…

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.…

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…

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.

Reports of our first great white egret of the summer on Ivy Lake today – unfortunately it was wading and therefore no one was able to see colour rings on its legs and confirm whether it is THE…

Hello - we’re Mariko, Dave and Becky, three new trainee ecologists based within the ecology team at HIWWT, and this is what we’ve been getting up to since starting!

The education centre arrived in a container! The building was beautiful in its simplicity and I remember a visitor admiring the new centre and remarking ‘It’s really clever how they’ve matched…