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A group of young people who took part in the recent National Citizen Service (NCS) programme have donated 10 fabulously decorated bug boxes to wildlife charity Northumberland Wildlife Trust.
A group of young people who took part in the recent National Citizen Service (NCS) programme have donated 10 fabulously decorated bug boxes to wildlife charity Northumberland Wildlife Trust.
The wall brown or 'wall' gets its name from the fact it rests on any bare surface or wall! It can be found in open, sunny places like sand dunes, old quarries, grasslands and railway…
The distinctive spiky, or 'bearded', green flower heads of wall barley appear from June to July and are easy to spot in an urban environment as they push their way up through pavements…
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Learn a tradition with its roots in the Iron Age and build your own mini dry stone wall to attract wildlife.
With club-shaped leaflets on its fronds, wall-rue is easy to spot as it grows out of crevices in walls. Plant it in your garden rockery to provide cover for insects.
Following a slow start to the Kielder Water & Forest Park osprey season, hampered by the Beast from the East, the breeding season is well underway with three eggs in each of the four nests.…
Conservation group Red Squirrels Northern England (RSNE) which works to protect red squirrels in the region and further afield, has published the results from its ninth annual squirrel monitoring…
Pellitory-of-the-wall is a small to medium-sized herb that frequently grows from cracks in old stone walls, pavements, cliffs and banks, and churches and ruins.