How wonderful to welcome Sir Ed Davey to Upton Heath yesterday to celebrate the power of community.
Alongside Dorset Wildlife Trust, it was the community that came together to secure the section of Upton Heath that was up for sale and ensure that it is protected for future generations.
Happy birthday bud.
📢 We’re hiring! 📢
Join Dorset Wildlife Trust as a Nature-based Solutions Team Assistant and help support projects that tackle climate change while restoring nature. 🌿
Find out more and apply 👉 bit.ly/4tvKX24 ~ Jack
📸 John Bridges
Ever fancied carving your own wooden spoon? 🌿🪵
Join expert greenwood worker Adam Hawker on 11 April and learn how to craft your own using traditional techniques - right in the heart of nature.
A brilliant way to get hands-on, and try something completely different.
Book your place:
Currently at Trinity Waters, Somerset. So good to hear singing Willow warblers! Plenty of sand martins overhead and the occasional swallow passing through.
Ah yes, when it didn’t matter if you didn’t know the number of the person you wanted to speak to - you could just work it! Weird how I still remember a few of them!
Territorial Robins seem to object to pretty much any birds!
Early frogspawn is starting to appear! 🐸
Keep an eye out for the jelly-like blobs in shady pond edges and shallow water - and let us know if you spot any! 💧👀 ~ Jack
📸 Steve Davis
Would you like to learn a new skill in 2026? 👀
Join nationally renowned greenwood worker, Adam Hawker, to learn how to carve a wooden spoon, an organic alternative to metal cutlery. 🥄👉 bit.ly/4ttSK1e
Frogspawn, Dorset. They’ve been busy overnight! Suspended net over the pond to keep the heron at bay.
Credit: Kate Plater
What’s that? Our half-price membership offer has been extended?! 😲
Due to popular demand, you’ve got a little more time to join Dorset Wildlife Trust at 50% off - but hurry! Ends midnight Tuesday 3 Feb ⏰
From just £2 a month, help protect Dorset’s wildlife 🌿🦋
Join now 👉 bit.ly/4bn2GTL ~ Jack
We’re so pleased to share some lovely news 💚Dorset Wildlife Trust is thrilled to be Royal Motor Yacht Club’s Charity of the Year!
Huge thanks to their members for supporting the Christmas Fair, Raffle and New Year Quiz — raising £2,212.72 so far for Dorset’s wildlife 🦋🌿
Three fantastic jobs available now.
Two land management jobs working across our nature reserves and rewilding sites on the wonderful Isle of Wight.
One business transformation role to help us modernise our operations & improve sustainability.
Apply!
hiwwt.current-vacancies.com/Careers/HIWW...
We're recruiting!
BoPH are looking for a part-time Engagement Assistant to join our team. This role would be well-suited to an enthusiastic ornithologist with great communication skills & good knowledge of British birds. Full details: environmentjob.co.uk/posts/108499...
Closes: 30th Jan 2026
🎉Half-price membership is back!🎉
Nature in Dorset needs your support — with 1 in 6 UK species now at risk. Join Dorset Wildlife Trust this January for half price and help restore the habitats and wild places we all love. 💚👉 bit.ly/4bcPVeb ~ Jack
📸 Stephen Collins
The staff at Dorset Wildlife Trust have signed off for #Christmas, but we want to say a huge thank you to all of our members and supporters for making 2025 such a wild year. 🎄💚 During the Christmas break we encourage you to reconnect with nature 👉 bit.ly/2HVeT6Z ~Jack
📸 Mark Hamblin/2020VISION
You’re invited to our Wild Woodbury community open day on Saturday 15 November. 🌿 Drop in from 10am-3pm and get involved with some tree planting in the community forest and explore the rewilding site. Find out more here 👉 bit.ly/47jdAGz ~ Jack
💧 Will you help protect Dorset's Water for Wildlife? 💧
Less than 15% of Dorset's rivers are in good condition, and 90% of the UK’s wetlands have disappeared in the last 100 years.
Water for Wildlife 👉 bit.ly/4o6j126
An outstanding Captain, an outstanding leader.
Simon and Kirsty going well on their epic trek!
Morning dog walk, brightened by seeing the welcome return of the local wasp spiders. @dorsetwildlife.bsky.social
Enjoyed a coffee in the garden earlier, and spotted this beauty of a jersey tiger having a rest. Great markings, and incredibly orange underwings when seen in flight. Dorset @dorsetwildlife.bsky.social @dorsetbutterflies.bsky.social
Spotted when I moved the bins, relocated to a far more suitable place. A welcome visitor to the garden. @dorsetwildlife.bsky.social #toad
What?!! I feel I need to apologise to the RSPB for skewing the data in the garden bird watch - I’ve clearly been misidentifying starlings for years!
Jersey tiger season is here. One of two in the garden today. #Dorset
We are looking for new trustees to join the board @dorsetwildlife.bsky.social - if you or anyone you know might be interested please take a look at the details here
www.dorsetwildlifetrust.org.uk/jobs/trustee (and please share this!)
Conservation Trainee x 2 opportunities with @dorsetwildlife.bsky.social Part time (28 hpw), fixed term (10 months). Locations: Dorset Wildlife Trust Urban Wildlife Centre, Corfe Mullen and Dorset Wildlife Trust HQ, Brooklands Farm, Dorchester c-js.uk/4kF7Lb6
One female and NINE male stag beetles flying around the garden. What an amazing experience!
Stag beetle, rescued from the attention of the local magpies. 3 others not so fortunate, just the heads remaining.
Magpies are not one of my favoured birds in the garden. They’ve moved on from terrorising the great tit youngsters, now settling for tucking into stag beetles. RIP Mr Stag
