Blog: Wildlife

Wild Writing by Nicola Chester

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Aston Clinton Ragpits

Where to go in June

With nearly 90 nature reserves across Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire to choose from, which are the best to visit this month?

A common blue butterfly perched on a grass head, with its blue wings spread open

A guide to the blue butterflies

Butterfly expert Alan Sumnall offers a thorough guide to one of our most enchanting groups of butterflies – the blues.

Bluebells in woodland

Where to go in May

With nearly 90 nature reserves across Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire to choose from, which are the best to visit this month?

Dartford warbler among pink flowers, The Wildlife Trusts

Bird ringing in West Berkshire

Volunteer bird ringer Jan Legg explains how a lifelong love of birds led to learning to survey the local bird population through bird ringing

Male adder

Tracking adders in Berkshire

BOWT volunteer surveyor, Alan Garnsworthy explains what it takes to track elusive adders in Berkshire

Spider

The wonderful world of spiders

There can be few groups of animals as incredibly useful and so little loved and understood as spiders. BBOWT volunteer Sue Taylor speaks up for them.