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MWT Summer season - Events guide!
Find MWT's 2022 events guide here!
Ponds
Whether found in a garden or part of an agricultural landscape, ponds are oases of wildlife worth investigating. Even small ponds can support a wealth of species and collectively, ponds play a key…
Farm Ponds
Herring gull
The herring gull is the typical 'seagull' of our seaside resorts, though our coastal populations have declined in recent decades.
Warty venus
This bumpy shell lives up to its name and lives partly buried in the seabed along the west coast of Great Britain.
Events
Find your local Wildlife Trust event and get stuck in to wild activities, talks, walks and much more.
Manx Wildlife Week – Invertebrate group drop-in event – Meet the Minibeasts
Meet the Minibeasts. Drop in to the Manx Museum to see the Island’s smallest inhabitants up close and learn about their world. The Isle of Man invertebrate group will be on hand to demonstrate how…
Keeping it Manx
A project to study and conserve Manx shearwaters on the Calf of Man is set to benefit from night vision cameras thanks to visitors to the Curraghs Wildlife Park.
Water avens
Look for Water avens in damp habitats, such as riversides, wet woodlands and wet meadows. It has nodding, purple-and-orange flowers that hang on delicate, purple stems.
Common pond skater
The common pond skater can be seen 'skating' over the surface of ponds, lakes, ditches and slow-moving rivers. It is predatory, feeding on small insects by detecting vibrations in the…
Wood avens
Look for wood avens along hedgerows and in woodlands. Its yellow flowers appear in spring and provide nectar for insects; later, they turn to red, hooked seedheads that can easily stick to a…