Cotswold Lakes Trust

Spring is with us and love is in the air for the local wildlife. When it comes to the most impressive attempts at wooing, Great Crested Grebes are up near the top of the list. These are easily the commonest of the British grebe species and also the largest. They are...

There can’t be too many people reading this who aren’t aware of House Sparrows, as their preference for ‘human sites’ brings them into most of our gardens. But were you aware that numbers have declined so dramatically that they are on the Red List of birds which are...

Keep your eyes open this winter for a particularly attractive visitor, which is likely to turn up on berry bushes around Cotswold Water Park villages: Waxwings. These gorgeous, crested, Starling sized birds breed in Scandinavia, and beyond, but head south and west as...

During autumn, as the colder weather looms, thousands of birds perform a ‘changing of the guard’ around the Cotswold Water Park. The delicate, mainly insect eating, warm weather lovers pack their bags and head south; to be replaced by the robust, hardy species which...

The end of November marked the start of National Tree Week, during this time we wanted to take the opportunity to introduce you to some of the most important trees found in the Cotswold Water Park. First up was English Oak (Quercus robur), although they aren’t hugely...

Bird Flu has been in and out of the news for the last couple of years. A particularly nasty variant has been at large, and its not only farmed poultry which have been affected; wild birds have suffered terribly. The disease spreads through direct (or indirect)...