Winter brings long nights and dark days, but nature’s palette is as bright as ever.

“No animal, according to the rules of animal-etiquette, is ever expected to do anything strenuous, or heroic, or even moderately active during the off-season of winter.”
― Kenneth Grahame,…

The winter is a quiet time for the Restoring Ratty team, before the spring surveys start again, which will then lead into the next release of water voles in the summer. In preparation for the…

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…

This frosty photo was taken whilst out raft monitoring last winter, when we discovered that whilst checking rafts in the freezing cold weather is beautiful; its also pretty futile as the clay…

Restoring Ratty staff and volunteers visited our water vole contractors Derek Gow Consultancy in Devon to see our water voles and learn more about the breeding and release process.

Bakethin, located a short-way upstream of Kielder Reservoir, is unique among nature reserves in Northumberland. Here, among the hulking frames of aged firs and a forest floor dominated by mossy…

Today was the last day of winter monitoring, in two weeks’ time, we shall be deploying approximately 20 more rafts to help us survey over a larger area. As well as our fabulous team of volunteers…