Wildacres

What an honour to be interviewed by the brilliant Ecologist, Broadcaster and Author Anja Murray with her super sound recordist Brían. We spent a beautiful sunny morning at Wildacres chatting about the natural world 🐸🦎🦉🐝🪲🐞🐛🦊🦇🌸🌳💚☀️

We took a route along our Redcross river walk, through the Wildacres native woodland, past a multitude of ponds, kilometres of hedgerow with hawthorn bursting into flower, the Orchard heaving with apple blossom, into the wildflower meadow alive with orange tip butterflies, and we finished up at the Big Green Barn with a cuppa while watching the Sand martins flitting in and out of their burrows in our new Sand Martin Nesting Bank!

We observed thousands of tadpoles in the shallows of the ponds, discovered plenty of frogs hiding out in grassy vegetation 🐸🐸🐸 and were lucky to see several smooth newts swimming in one of our micro ponds! 🦎

If you haven’t read Anja’s books yet, we would highly recommend both ‘Wild Embrace’ and ‘Frog Routes and Polkadot Newts’.

Anja has a wonderful way with words and uses that talent to share her passion and knowledge of the natural world so eloquently through her books, on the weekly Nature File and over the years on a variety of TV programmes.

We’ve some lovely events coming up over the next 3 Saturdays at Wildacres so check out the link in bio to our what’s on page if you’d like to join us for an inspiring morning in nature.

All workshop and tour ticket sale income goes towards biodiversity restoration and education 💚