Goodness, since our last blog, we have released a further 160 water voles back into Kielder Water & Forest Park!

Walking at Weetslade Country Park this past weekend, the rolling grasslands of the former colliery site appeared almost Mediterranean. Parched grasses, sapped by what seems like an eternity of…

We’ve had a fab month so far! Currently our project area is in Kielder Water and Forest Park. However, we do aim to cross the boundary because as we’ve come to discover, water voles don’t always…

Today is the end of my first week as an intern of Northumberland Wildlife Trust. As part of my university course, I have chosen to undergo a five-week internship, to contribute towards my BSc…

May & June are busy months for us. We’re enjoying surveying, plodging about in streams and burns before the midges start feeding off us! Water voles are thoughtful creatures, and it’s only…

We enjoyed our first day of spring monitoring yesterday to determine how our voles fared over the winter, signs were disappointing, and we felt a little down-hearted, but we did find prints on a…

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…

The ‘Beast from the East’ struck last week and Northumberland, much like everywhere else in Britain, lay concealed under a blanket of snow. All around the county, the ground lay white, water…

You may have seen in the press this week the news about the decline in water vole populations across England and Wales. This comes from the England and Wales Water Vole Database and Mapping…

Over the winter we have been preparing for our next releases, organizing our events and School programs and repairing a new bird hide ready to install on the forest drive.