Each evening, large flocks of starlings from miles around will head for their communal roost site. 🐦‍⬛ Flocks of starlings start to build from October and November, with some estimated to be up to 50,000 birds by winter! 😲 https://ow.ly/4slA51060lJ 📸 Video: rach_wildlife | Cover: David Andrews

Take this opportunity for you and your work colleagues to go outside 🌳 www.warwickshirewildlifetrust.org.uk/things-do #Microsoft #ChooseTheWildLife #Warwickshire

Introduction to Ecology 📅Thursday 19th November ⏲️7-8pm 📍Online 🎟️ Free Join Ian online to learn about the basics of how our natural world works 🌍 www.warwickshirewildlifetrust.org.uk/events/2026-11-19-introduction-ecology 📸 Anna Wright

Vacancy | Wilder Communities Manager | Permanent - Part time (25 hours per week) You'll lead and coordinate the Wilder Communities Team, supporting community-led action for nature across Warwickshire, Coventry, and Solihull. 🪲 Closes: 2nd December https://ow.ly/xhXr5105tlz 📸Lee Copplestone

Our Trustees bring their passions, skills, and strategic knowledge to help us achieve our goals and ambitions as a charity! 🎊 This is voluntary and we are incredibly thankful for their time, knowledge, and different perspectives. To learn more, visit www.warwickshirewildlifetrust.org.uk/trustees

From Snitterfield Bushes in Stratford-Upon-Avon to Whitacre Heath in Tamworth, explore our best nature reserves to visit this autumn 🔎 We asked our experts, the nature reserves team, which is their favourite and why? 🍂 https://ow.ly/bCMU510498x 📸Sunrise at Brandon Marsh - Dave Lawton

Explore our mud kitchen at Brandon Marsh Nature Reserve this weekend 👩‍🍳 Let their imagination run wild, with toilets and our visitor centre only a short distance away. 🖐️ Open every day. 10am-4pm on Saturdays & Sundays 🫖 www.warwickshirewildlifetrust.org.uk/BrandonMarsh

Bishop's Hill is a wonderful nature reserve to visit: 🍂 To see the colourful leaves 🐦‍⬛ To hear a choir of birds 🌄 To enjoy the expansive hilltop view 📗 To learn about it's industrial history & habitat importance Please follow all safety signs and do not enter the water. 🔴 https://ow.ly/fR2Z51047Zf

For the sake of prickly mammals & other precious wildlife, please do a last-minute check of bonfires before lighting tonight!🔥 A pile of leaves, an abundance of wood, and shelter from the elements makes these the perfect environment. 🦔 https://ow.ly/UbJa51045qc 📸Matthew Roberts & Tom Marshall

Our Nature Tots group will be going on a magical adventure in the woods next week 🦇 📅 Monday 9th November ⏰ 10:30 - 11:30am 📍 Brandon Marsh Nature Reserve, CV3 www.warwickshirewildlifetrust.org.uk/events/2026-11-09-nature-tots-brandon-marsh 📸 Paula Irish

Our sightings board tells us what's been spotted at Brandon Marsh Nature Reserve. Peregrines, snipes, gadwall, pochard, cormorant and more have been seen recently 😎 Write what you've seen on our sightings board when you visit. www.warwickshirewildlifetrust.org.uk/BrandonMarsh

Read these endearing & wholesome comments on our Wilder Waters Appeal 😇 www.warwickshirewildlifetrust.org.uk/wilder-waters-appeal 📸 WKWT | Tom Marshall | Rachel Byrne | TerryWhittaker/2020Vision

Final day to complete our Autumn Trail 🤩 ⏰During opening hours, until 3:15pm 🎫 £2.50 per trail pack (inc. free child entry) 📍Brandon Marsh Nature Reserve, CV3 3GW Visit our events page: www.warwickshirewildlifetrust.org.uk/events/2026-10-24-autumn-half-term-trail

What's that mammal sweeping & swooshing at dusk? You're telling me that red & white toadstool is actually poisonous? 🫨 https://ow.ly/Z0n75101Osr 📸owl - Russell Savory | fungi - Scott Petrek | round leaved sundew - Vicky Nall | moth - Vaughn Matthews | bat - Dale Sutton | crow - Leighton Newman

Our best nature reserves to visit in Autumn We asked our experts, the nature reserves team, which is their favourite to visit and why? 🍂 www.warwickshirewildlifetrust.org.uk/blog/catherine-craig/our-best-nature-reserves-visit-autumn 📸Russell Savory

Celebrate Halloween with wildlife in mind 🧛 An estimated 7 million costumes & over 15 million pumpkins thrown away 🎃 This is detrimental to wildlife so let's do better and make pumpkin soup with leftovers or transform used milk cartons into ghost lanterns. 👻 https://ow.ly/fMqN5101OB8 📸Ange Hale

Truck Wash 🐮 Imagine being welcomed to Welcombe Hills in Stratford-Upon-Avon by this overly friendly cow 🤣 This week, one of our reserves officers was driving to do maintenance work at this reserve when a cow decided the bonnet was too delicious to not lick! 🐄 https://ow.ly/NcHu5101Olu

Our GenWild Committee for 18-30 year olds have got 2 FREE events coming up in November! 💡 Fluorescent Foray 🔦 Lichen Talk & Walk 🔍 *As these are GenWild event, the event is only open to 18–30-year-olds https://ow.ly/zZ505101N3L 📸 WKWTGenWildCommittee

Now that the weather is better, we've got the perfect thing to entertain your young explorers with an exciting autumnal adventure. 🍂 £2.50 per trail pack, which includes free child entry to Brandon Marsh! 🤩 https://ow.ly/TjyN5100zzF

A relaxing sign that you should birdwatch with a hot drink in our cosy café 👀 We spotted great tits, blackcaps, a squirrel, robins, and more in just one hour of sitting at this window 🐦 Escape the stormy weather & pick as many fillings as you like in a toastie https://ow.ly/cfY15100Zzi 🎶 Leberch

This October Half Term, we are offering FREE entry for all children to Brandon Marsh Nature Reserve 🍂 This could save you up to £3.25 per child! https://ow.ly/WCw05100zLz *Free child entry is only available during Warwickshire dates for Oct Half Term Sat 24th Oct to Sun 1st Nov 📸 Chris Speller

We want to see your nature-inspired pumpkins! 🍂 Tag us or email marketing@wkwt.org.uk 🧡 Halloween is a great time for spooky family fun, but it is often full of plastic and waste! 😮‍💨Find out how to enjoy this haunted celebration while keeping wildlife safe https://ow.ly/NKqr5100pHc 📸 Amy Lewis

These dreamy shots by Emily of Clowes Wood, near Solihull, are magical! 😍 Clowes Wood was the first reserve owned by Warwickshire Wildlife Trust, and was made possible by the generosity of an anonymous donor in 1974. 👏 https://ow.ly/3PZ150ZYo9j 📸 Emily Lingard

Our Autumn Trail starts today! 🍂 📅Every day 24th Oct - 1st Nov ⏰During opening hours, until 3:15pm 🎫 £2.50 per trail pack (inc. free child entry) 📍Brandon Marsh, CV3 3GW £2.50 per trail pack, includes free child entry to Brandon Marsh. Visit our events page: https://ow.ly/yLse5100zxl

Our new seasonal decorations 🍂 Available from our Brandon Marsh gift shop in CV3 From the marvellous Sir David Attenborough to a debonair autumnal snail, this new collection from Felt So Good is too good to miss out 🤩 https://ow.ly/eHK05100xlU 🎶 Music by Isobelle Walton

Can you guess who this is? 👀 In felt form, we're got a huge selection of decorations for autumn and winter in our wonderful gift shop. 🍂 Every purchase helps support our charity 🍄 Come back at 4pm today for a full reveal of the new felt decoration collection ⏲️ #ChooseTheWildLife #Warwickshire

This October Half Term, we are offering FREE entry for all children to Brandon Marsh Nature Reserve 🍂 This could save you up to £3.25 per child! 🤩 www.warwickshirewildlifetrust.org.uk/BrandonMarsh *available from Saturday 24th October to Sunday 1st November. 📸 Chris Speller

These tall, prehistoric looking birds stand on the edge of ponds and lakes, searching for their next meal. 🩶 Find out what herons do in gardens when they feel lazy 😯 https://ow.ly/ZKLm50ZYnRp 📸 1 - Tony Allibone / 2 - Tom B / 3 - Ed Daly / 4 - Dave Edwards

The misunderstood visitor 🕷 The giant house spider can cause a bit of surprise, but if you take the time to look a little closer, there's a lot to love. Warning: photos of spiders on our blog! https://ow.ly/3KgT50ZYn9h 📸 Jim Higham

Every month, we publish a monthly Wildlife Gallery 📸 October's theme was the equinox and earthy tones, like this intricate shaggy parasol mushroom from photographer, April. 🤩 https://ow.ly/Y17Y50ZYnrQ 📸 April Henderson