Lincolnshire Wildlife Trust

A group of people looking over a coastal floodplain and grazing marsh. The group are being shown the site by Roger Wardle, who originally created the wetland for the landowner under an agri-environment scheme.

Roger Wardle points out a distant flock of birds to three people. Roger has advised on habitat creation throughout Britain, specialising in meadows and wetlands, and also farms in Lincolnshire so offers valuable insights from different perspectives.

Meetings that call for wellies are often the best sort!
Last week, our conservation officers were joined by representatives from the Environment Agency, Natural England, district planning ecologists + ecological consultants for an on-site discussion around wetland creation and Biodiversity Net Gain.

You can share your memories and photos in the comments here or email them to us at gibeducation@lincstrust.co.uk
Thank you

This year we're celebrating 50 Years of Shorebird Protection at Gibraltar Point National Nature Reserve.
We'd love to hear from anyone who's been part of the shorebird team as a staff member or a volunteer. We’re looking for your standout memories, special moments and any old photographs.

We need more moustache shaped routes! 🥸

Starting a career in conservation isn't easy but we can help.
If you are an early career conservationist or looking to change career, we have vacancies for residential volunteers - with accommodation provided on National Nature Reserves in Lincolnshire.
Visit: www.lincstrust.org.uk/jobs

People in high-viz planting a hedge.

A group of six staff and volunteers standing in front of the newly planted hedge.

A row of new planted native hedge species in biodegradable guards. The hedge was funded by Lincolnshire County Council's Trees Outside of Woodland Grant.

A view of the road with a wide grassy verge and newly planted hedge separating it from the neighbouring farmland.

Last week, thanks to a great team effort from volunteers & staff, a new hedge was planted at Moorby Roadside Nature Reserve. An impressive 400 metres of double-rowed hedge was planted: all with native species and biodegradable guards.
Our thanks to Lincolnshire County Council and the Revesby Estate.

Viv Rhodie (left), chair of the Horncastle & Woodhall Spa Area Group of the Trust and podcast host Melvyn Prior. Melvyn is holding up one of the swift boxes.

Our latest Wilder Lincolnshire podcast episode is all about swifts.
Joined by Viv Rhodie, we uncover what makes swifts so special and learn about the local Swift Box Project that's helping our summer visitors when they arrive each year.
Listen or watch here: www.lincstrust.org.uk/what-we-do/a...

Was great to catch up with the Cranes last weekend on a rare sunny day. More on justwildimages.blogspot.com @lincsbirding.bsky.social @lincswildlife.bsky.social @britishbirds.bsky.social @ukrbbp.bsky.social @birdguides.bsky.social @matthewfitzgerald.bsky.social @joshsollitt.bsky.social

We're looking for the next generation of eco heroes!
Please spread the word to schools, groups and families with children under 13 who are going above and beyond for the local environment and nature. They could win cash prizes towards their projects.
www.lincstrust.org.uk/lincs-environmental-awards

Make your birdwatching count 👇

Saltfleetby and Theddlethorpe Dunes is the base for two residential volunteers. Self-contained accommodation is provided in purpose-built, eco-friendly units with views of wildlife in the dunes from the kitchen window! Working alongside our regional wardens and regular volunteers, residential volunteers get stuck into everything from species monitoring (some night shifts required!) to habitat and livestock management and public engagement. Tailored training and hands-on experience provides the ideal foundation for a career in nature conservation. This is a six-month commitment, with the potential to extend to a maximum of 11 months, taking in the 2026 grey seal pupping season at Donna Nook.

Applications are now open for our next residential volunteers based in the Saltfleetby-Theddlethorpe Dunes NNR on the coast and Far Ings NNR on the Humber estuary.
These are fantastic opportunities to gain experience and kick start a career in nature conservation.
More at www.lincstrust.org.uk/jobs

I wonder why every duck in the vicinity made a hasty retreat at Deeping Lakes.
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Wonderful to see. Shows it's worth getting outside whatever the weather!

The volunteers from RAF Waddington braved the threatening weather with a cheerful attitude for their monthly work party in the Education Grounds at Whisby Nature Park. This month, they tackled the hazel coppice and a wild and thicketed blackthorn hedge.

Meet our first calf of 2026. She was born in the early hours of yesterday morning and has been named Fawn. We are expecting 18 calves this year in total - all Lincoln reds who will join our conservation grazing herds at Woodhall Spa Airfield and on other local nature reserves.

Glad you enjoyed it and thank you for visiting us. We're keeping our fingers crossed that, one day, nightingales will return 🤞

Singing nightingale in blossom.

The Cuckoo’s Lea by Michael J. Warren

Only two days to go till my talk @lincswildlife.bsky.social’s Whisby reserve. Come to here about nightingales and how they transform our sense of place in spring. Tickets here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-talk-... #AuthorTalk #naturewriting

The beautiful sight of my local Barn Owl 🦉📸

@rspbengland.bsky.social @lincswildlife.bsky.social #BirdOfTheDay #Birds #Feathers #Owls #EastCoastKin #ThePhotoHour

Love seeing the photos of your barn owl. How fabulous to have one close to home 🦉🧡

5000 years of environmental archaeology in the Fens YouTube video by Lincolnshire Wildlife Trust

Hear Fenscapers Rachel, Phil and Neal taking about our work & 5,000 years' worth of environmental archaeology in the Fens!

Great to be invited by Fens East Peat Partnership to give a webinar last month - now on YouTube, along with many other great talks
@lincswildlife.bsky.social
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Thank you to the very first work party on our new wetland site, Harrison's Holme in Horncastle, who cleared two old fences and collected two bags of litter.
Find out more about how the Trust is working with @eastmerciart.bsky.social to create this nature reserve at lincstrust.org.uk/harrisons-holme

2 Short-eared Owl over the Old Saltmarsh this evening from Visitor Centre Car Park (2/2/26) @lincsbirding.bsky.social

For our first Wilder Lincolnshire podcast of 2026, the team headed north to Crowle Moor to catch up with two of the Fens East Peat Partnership project officers and discuss the benefits and potential problems of using drones in conservation.
Listen now at www.lincstrust.org.uk/wilder-linco...

Three cranes on a wetland reserve in south Lincolnshire. Two adults on the right, with their youngster from last year on the left.

Last year's surviving crane chick at Willow Tree Fen is now a gangly teenager and getting ready to leave home - whether it likes it or not. As the parent birds start to prepare for another nesting season, they'll drive the 10-month-old out of their territory to go it alone.
📸Dave Coats

@17sgs10.bsky.social
Crikey! Some big names there among your speakers. I hope they fill the room every time. I shall try and make the @lincswildlife.bsky.social talk on 20th February.
#Spalding #SpaldingGentleman'sSociety #HistoryTalks #SpoaldingEvents #Lincolnshire #SpaldingMethodistChurch

They're fabulous!

Not long now till I’m @lincswildlife.bsky.social’s Whisby reserve talking about #thecuckooslea, particularly about my search for the most northerly breeding nightingales in north-west Europe (which took me to Whisby). Come and join me! #naturewriting #authortalk @the-wildlifetrusts.bsky.social

Congrats on your lifers, love it that you have a fungi life list too 🧡🍄

A rainbow arcs across trees beside a lake, with reeds in front, under blueish cloudy skies.

Great Cormorants perch in a large bare tree bathed in warm evening light against a dark, cloudy sky.

The sun setting behind clouds and trees casting rays upwards. Scattered clouds are fringed in orange and reflected in a river.

The evening light was fabulous at Deeping Lakes @lincswildlife.bsky.social #localnaturereserve yesterday, illuminating the Great Cormorant roost. #birdsSeenIn2026 #rainbow #landscapes

A few more of the Snow Goose, as it left it's roost at Deeping Lakes @lincswildlife.bsky.social last week. More on justwildimages.blogspot.com @lincsbirding.bsky.social @birdguides.bsky.social @britishbirds.bsky.social #WildlifeOfBritain #SwanRoost #JustWildImages #CanonWildlife #UKBirds