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Our Rangers had a fun session making nature print decorations and practicing for the New Year Plant Hunt!
See what Rangers sessions we're running near you in the new year 👇
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See what Rangers sessions we're running near you in the new year 👇
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December 28, 2025 at 10:05 AM
Our Rangers had a fun session making nature print decorations and practicing for the New Year Plant Hunt!
See what Rangers sessions we're running near you in the new year 👇
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See what Rangers sessions we're running near you in the new year 👇
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The magnificent South Bucks mid-week volunteer team stormed through their management work at Bacombe Hill, before enjoying the traditional festive jacket potato lunch and attempting Chris Trew's annual quiz!
Thank you to the team for your incredible work throughout 2025 🙌
Thank you to the team for your incredible work throughout 2025 🙌
December 27, 2025 at 10:05 AM
The magnificent South Bucks mid-week volunteer team stormed through their management work at Bacombe Hill, before enjoying the traditional festive jacket potato lunch and attempting Chris Trew's annual quiz!
Thank you to the team for your incredible work throughout 2025 🙌
Thank you to the team for your incredible work throughout 2025 🙌
🎄 Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year from the BBOWT team! ❄️
📷 Nature Discovery Centre by Craig Allen
📷 Nature Discovery Centre by Craig Allen
December 25, 2025 at 8:02 AM
🎄 Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year from the BBOWT team! ❄️
📷 Nature Discovery Centre by Craig Allen
📷 Nature Discovery Centre by Craig Allen
❄️ In winter, both male and female robins sing to defend a feeding territory. They’re claiming all the food in the area, and warning any other robins to back off or face a fight!
Thank you to @drtonygillie.bsky.social for sharing this fantastic photo!
Thank you to @drtonygillie.bsky.social for sharing this fantastic photo!
December 24, 2025 at 10:05 AM
❄️ In winter, both male and female robins sing to defend a feeding territory. They’re claiming all the food in the area, and warning any other robins to back off or face a fight!
Thank you to @drtonygillie.bsky.social for sharing this fantastic photo!
Thank you to @drtonygillie.bsky.social for sharing this fantastic photo!
We’re recruiting a Rural Surveyor who will help nature recover by guiding land management, supporting project delivery, and safeguarding the charity’s legal and contractual responsibilities.
Apply now: www.bbowt.org.uk/jobs/rural-s...
Apply now: www.bbowt.org.uk/jobs/rural-s...
December 23, 2025 at 4:12 PM
We’re recruiting a Rural Surveyor who will help nature recover by guiding land management, supporting project delivery, and safeguarding the charity’s legal and contractual responsibilities.
Apply now: www.bbowt.org.uk/jobs/rural-s...
Apply now: www.bbowt.org.uk/jobs/rural-s...
🥔🔥 "The only task that is essential today is to produce a fire with fiery embers, in which potatoes can be cooked to perfection, our Christmas tradition."
Read the latest blog from Charlotte Karmali, award-winning Volunteer Warden at Finemere Wood 👇
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Read the latest blog from Charlotte Karmali, award-winning Volunteer Warden at Finemere Wood 👇
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December 23, 2025 at 10:05 AM
🥔🔥 "The only task that is essential today is to produce a fire with fiery embers, in which potatoes can be cooked to perfection, our Christmas tradition."
Read the latest blog from Charlotte Karmali, award-winning Volunteer Warden at Finemere Wood 👇
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Read the latest blog from Charlotte Karmali, award-winning Volunteer Warden at Finemere Wood 👇
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🌳 #MendtheGap is a project managed by @chilternsnl.bsky.social and the North Wessex Downs National Landscape to deliver a number of activities to enhance land impacted negatively by the electrification of the Great Western Railway around the Goring Gap.
Our Impact 2024-25 | Mend the Gap
Find out more at https://www.bbowt.org.uk/mend-the-gap
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December 22, 2025 at 10:05 AM
🌳 #MendtheGap is a project managed by @chilternsnl.bsky.social and the North Wessex Downs National Landscape to deliver a number of activities to enhance land impacted negatively by the electrification of the Great Western Railway around the Goring Gap.
🎉 We had a great time celebrating the incredible work and dedication of our wonderful North Bucks volunteers with our annual Christmas barbecue at Meadow Farm!
Find a volunteering opportunity near you 👉 bbowt.org.uk/volunteer
📸 Chloe Bradford
Find a volunteering opportunity near you 👉 bbowt.org.uk/volunteer
📸 Chloe Bradford
December 20, 2025 at 10:05 AM
🎉 We had a great time celebrating the incredible work and dedication of our wonderful North Bucks volunteers with our annual Christmas barbecue at Meadow Farm!
Find a volunteering opportunity near you 👉 bbowt.org.uk/volunteer
📸 Chloe Bradford
Find a volunteering opportunity near you 👉 bbowt.org.uk/volunteer
📸 Chloe Bradford
While blackcaps are typically summer visitors to our shores, these distinctive warblers have increasingly been seen around gardens in the UK from November to March.
December 19, 2025 at 10:05 AM
While blackcaps are typically summer visitors to our shores, these distinctive warblers have increasingly been seen around gardens in the UK from November to March.
We’re recruiting a Managing Director 🌿 Lead a values-driven ecological and land & farm consultancy where profits are reinvested into Berks, Bucks & Oxon Wildlife Trust, directly supporting nature’s recovery. Apply now: www.bbowt.org.uk/jobs/managing-director
December 18, 2025 at 4:12 PM
We’re recruiting a Managing Director 🌿 Lead a values-driven ecological and land & farm consultancy where profits are reinvested into Berks, Bucks & Oxon Wildlife Trust, directly supporting nature’s recovery. Apply now: www.bbowt.org.uk/jobs/managing-director
❄️ This festive season, why not swap the hustle and bustle for frosty walks and moments in the great outdoors?
Sign up for #12DaysWild and we’ll send you daily ideas, digital resources and activities to help you make the most of a truly wild winter.
Register here 👉 wildlifetrusts.org/12dayswild
Sign up for #12DaysWild and we’ll send you daily ideas, digital resources and activities to help you make the most of a truly wild winter.
Register here 👉 wildlifetrusts.org/12dayswild
December 18, 2025 at 10:55 AM
❄️ This festive season, why not swap the hustle and bustle for frosty walks and moments in the great outdoors?
Sign up for #12DaysWild and we’ll send you daily ideas, digital resources and activities to help you make the most of a truly wild winter.
Register here 👉 wildlifetrusts.org/12dayswild
Sign up for #12DaysWild and we’ll send you daily ideas, digital resources and activities to help you make the most of a truly wild winter.
Register here 👉 wildlifetrusts.org/12dayswild
🚜 Join The Wildlife Trusts at the Oxford Farming Conference on 7 January for a live panel discussion exploring the future of UK food systems, food prices, and the vital role nature must play in creating resilient, healthy diets for all.
👉 Book your place online or in-person: buff.ly/13IiPs5
👉 Book your place online or in-person: buff.ly/13IiPs5
December 17, 2025 at 4:12 PM
🚜 Join The Wildlife Trusts at the Oxford Farming Conference on 7 January for a live panel discussion exploring the future of UK food systems, food prices, and the vital role nature must play in creating resilient, healthy diets for all.
👉 Book your place online or in-person: buff.ly/13IiPs5
👉 Book your place online or in-person: buff.ly/13IiPs5
🌱 Ridge and furrow is a medieval ploughing technique which led to dry land for growing crops, and wetter furrows for drainage and to grow grass for grazing. These field patterns at Meadow Farm show that it hasn’t been cultivated for centuries.
📸 Chloe Bradford
📸 Chloe Bradford
December 17, 2025 at 10:05 AM
🌱 Ridge and furrow is a medieval ploughing technique which led to dry land for growing crops, and wetter furrows for drainage and to grow grass for grazing. These field patterns at Meadow Farm show that it hasn’t been cultivated for centuries.
📸 Chloe Bradford
📸 Chloe Bradford
🫶 Thank you to everyone who has remembered BBOWT in your will.
We are fuelled by the hopes and passions of our supporters. We dream of a return to flower-rich meadows buzzing with life; nightingales singing in ancient woodlands; and clean waterways teeming with life.
Your gift can achieve so much.
We are fuelled by the hopes and passions of our supporters. We dream of a return to flower-rich meadows buzzing with life; nightingales singing in ancient woodlands; and clean waterways teeming with life.
Your gift can achieve so much.
BBOWT's Legacy Society | Berks Bucks & Oxon Wildlife Trust
If you would like to notify us of having remembered BBOWT in your will, we have created the Legacy Society to thank you for this incredible gesture.
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December 16, 2025 at 4:12 PM
🫶 Thank you to everyone who has remembered BBOWT in your will.
We are fuelled by the hopes and passions of our supporters. We dream of a return to flower-rich meadows buzzing with life; nightingales singing in ancient woodlands; and clean waterways teeming with life.
Your gift can achieve so much.
We are fuelled by the hopes and passions of our supporters. We dream of a return to flower-rich meadows buzzing with life; nightingales singing in ancient woodlands; and clean waterways teeming with life.
Your gift can achieve so much.
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Big news! Water voles have been spotted in the River Thame catchment for the first time in decades.
Full story: tinyurl.com/45b8fb5h
Huge thank you to our volunteers, landowners,
@naturalengland.bsky.social , @bbowt.bsky.social for helping make this possible.
Full story: tinyurl.com/45b8fb5h
Huge thank you to our volunteers, landowners,
@naturalengland.bsky.social , @bbowt.bsky.social for helping make this possible.
Water Voles spotted in the River Thame catchment for first time in decades
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December 15, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Big news! Water voles have been spotted in the River Thame catchment for the first time in decades.
Full story: tinyurl.com/45b8fb5h
Huge thank you to our volunteers, landowners,
@naturalengland.bsky.social , @bbowt.bsky.social for helping make this possible.
Full story: tinyurl.com/45b8fb5h
Huge thank you to our volunteers, landowners,
@naturalengland.bsky.social , @bbowt.bsky.social for helping make this possible.
Our Community Wildlife Officer, Barbara Polonara, had a great day at the Pakistani Welfare Association, meeting the ladies for lunch!
It was a great opportunity to hear from potential community leaders and have meaningful conversations about nature's invaluable importance for mental health (1/2)
It was a great opportunity to hear from potential community leaders and have meaningful conversations about nature's invaluable importance for mental health (1/2)
December 16, 2025 at 10:05 AM
Our Community Wildlife Officer, Barbara Polonara, had a great day at the Pakistani Welfare Association, meeting the ladies for lunch!
It was a great opportunity to hear from potential community leaders and have meaningful conversations about nature's invaluable importance for mental health (1/2)
It was a great opportunity to hear from potential community leaders and have meaningful conversations about nature's invaluable importance for mental health (1/2)
🌱 As part of our Engaging with Nature project, we worked with a fantastic group of volunteers over the last Christmas period to bring nature to Maidenhead town centre.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QmmU...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QmmU...
Our Impact 2024-25 | Engaging with Nature
This project was made possible thanks to the Heathrow Community Trust.
Support our work for nature's recovery and become a BBOWT member: https://www.bbowt.org.uk/join-us
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December 15, 2025 at 10:05 AM
🌱 As part of our Engaging with Nature project, we worked with a fantastic group of volunteers over the last Christmas period to bring nature to Maidenhead town centre.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QmmU...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QmmU...
📣 Order your 2026 calendar by Tuesday 16th to make sure it arrives for Christmas!
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👉 Get your calendar here: buff.ly/K9r4ovB
December 14, 2025 at 4:12 PM
📣 Order your 2026 calendar by Tuesday 16th to make sure it arrives for Christmas!
👉 Get your calendar here: buff.ly/K9r4ovB
👉 Get your calendar here: buff.ly/K9r4ovB
🌠 Look out for one of Mother Nature's greatest spectacles, the Geminids meteor shower, this weekend, which will be at its peak overnight on 13 and 14 December.
December 13, 2025 at 10:05 AM
🌠 Look out for one of Mother Nature's greatest spectacles, the Geminids meteor shower, this weekend, which will be at its peak overnight on 13 and 14 December.
Today is D-Day for Biodiversity Net Gain.
Steve Reed is set to decide whether this Labour Government will abandon all pretence of understanding and caring for nature by gutting BNG...
Steve Reed is set to decide whether this Labour Government will abandon all pretence of understanding and caring for nature by gutting BNG...
December 12, 2025 at 8:51 AM
Today is D-Day for Biodiversity Net Gain.
Steve Reed is set to decide whether this Labour Government will abandon all pretence of understanding and caring for nature by gutting BNG...
Steve Reed is set to decide whether this Labour Government will abandon all pretence of understanding and caring for nature by gutting BNG...
Say it's carol singers...
❄️ We're now just two weeks away from the start of #12DaysWild!
Extend the magic of the festive season by signing up for our challenge to do one wild act a day from 25 December to 5 January.
👉 Sign up at wildlifetrusts.org/12dayswild
❄️ We're now just two weeks away from the start of #12DaysWild!
Extend the magic of the festive season by signing up for our challenge to do one wild act a day from 25 December to 5 January.
👉 Sign up at wildlifetrusts.org/12dayswild
December 11, 2025 at 10:06 AM
Say it's carol singers...
❄️ We're now just two weeks away from the start of #12DaysWild!
Extend the magic of the festive season by signing up for our challenge to do one wild act a day from 25 December to 5 January.
👉 Sign up at wildlifetrusts.org/12dayswild
❄️ We're now just two weeks away from the start of #12DaysWild!
Extend the magic of the festive season by signing up for our challenge to do one wild act a day from 25 December to 5 January.
👉 Sign up at wildlifetrusts.org/12dayswild
🐦 Hawfinches are the UK's largest finch and are easily identified, once you find one, by their very large bill, also by a repeated sharp metallic ‘pix’ call given from treetops.
December 10, 2025 at 10:05 AM
🐦 Hawfinches are the UK's largest finch and are easily identified, once you find one, by their very large bill, also by a repeated sharp metallic ‘pix’ call given from treetops.
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Are you looking to buy binoculars or a scope as a Christmas present but need some advice? ❄️🎄🎁
Our optics specialists will be available at the following Wildlife Trust locations this weekend:
13/12 Potteric Carr @yorkswildlife.bsky.social
14/12 College Lake @bbowt.bsky.social
#BirdingGear
Our optics specialists will be available at the following Wildlife Trust locations this weekend:
13/12 Potteric Carr @yorkswildlife.bsky.social
14/12 College Lake @bbowt.bsky.social
#BirdingGear
December 9, 2025 at 10:43 AM
Are you looking to buy binoculars or a scope as a Christmas present but need some advice? ❄️🎄🎁
Our optics specialists will be available at the following Wildlife Trust locations this weekend:
13/12 Potteric Carr @yorkswildlife.bsky.social
14/12 College Lake @bbowt.bsky.social
#BirdingGear
Our optics specialists will be available at the following Wildlife Trust locations this weekend:
13/12 Potteric Carr @yorkswildlife.bsky.social
14/12 College Lake @bbowt.bsky.social
#BirdingGear
❄️ As the cold weather descends, help out the birds visiting your garden by installing and maintaining bird boxes for them to roost in over winter, and providing food in these frosty months.
👉 View the range from our partners at Vine House Farm: bbowt.org.uk/vine-house-farm
👉 View the range from our partners at Vine House Farm: bbowt.org.uk/vine-house-farm
December 9, 2025 at 4:12 PM
❄️ As the cold weather descends, help out the birds visiting your garden by installing and maintaining bird boxes for them to roost in over winter, and providing food in these frosty months.
👉 View the range from our partners at Vine House Farm: bbowt.org.uk/vine-house-farm
👉 View the range from our partners at Vine House Farm: bbowt.org.uk/vine-house-farm
🌱 We want to see BNG regulation supporting nature’s recovery.
Our habitat banks are being designed and developed by our own team of ecologists and reserve managers, to create and enhance habitats and make new spaces for wildlife.
Our habitat banks are being designed and developed by our own team of ecologists and reserve managers, to create and enhance habitats and make new spaces for wildlife.
Our impact 2024-25 | Biodiversity Net Gain
Find out more at https://www.bbowt.org.uk/what-we-do/future-nature-wtc/biodiversity-net-gain
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December 8, 2025 at 10:05 AM
🌱 We want to see BNG regulation supporting nature’s recovery.
Our habitat banks are being designed and developed by our own team of ecologists and reserve managers, to create and enhance habitats and make new spaces for wildlife.
Our habitat banks are being designed and developed by our own team of ecologists and reserve managers, to create and enhance habitats and make new spaces for wildlife.