• What have we been up to at St. Aidan's?
    It has been a busy summer and it looks set be an even busier winter for the warden team at St Aidan’s nature park. With just under 1000 acres of habitat and 12 kilometres of paths to maintain the work...
  • New season, new intern - hello!
    Hi I’m Sally, the new visitor intern. What a whirlwind – two days ago I was lurking beneath the trees of a woodland reserve in the depths of the midlands. Now, here I am back in Yorkshire at last....
  • Conservation work at Fairburn Ings
    Our warden team are busy throughout the year, but at this time of year they are particularly busy making sure the reserve is ready for spring, when most of the wildlife here will be using Fairburn Ings...
  • Fairburn Ings Warden Work: Rafts on the Lagoons
    Over the past couple of weeks, the wardens at Fairburn have been making wildlife rafts! Here’s an update from warden Karen: The rafts are a great way of increasing wetland features on lakes and...
  • Take a walk through our reserve
    It’s been a strange day here weather wise, beautiful sunshine one minute then rain and hail the next! Luckily there were blue skies this afternoon so people on the photography workshop could get some...