Grey seal pup season
The grey seal colony at South Walney Nature Reserve is growing, with several pups being born here each year since 2015.
However, young seals and their mothers are incredibly vulnerable to…
Blog: South Walney
Blog
Salt works, shingle and seals at South Walney
Abi, who volunteers some of her time to the Trust, headed to the Furness Peninsula by bike to explore our South Walney Nature Reserve and wrote about her experience.
An inside view of a grey seal survey
Read on for an inside view of our fortnightly grey seal surveys...
Authors
- 30 Days Wild Bloggers (3)
- Alasdair McKee (4)
- Apprentice Conservation Officers (38)
- Dyane Silvester (3)
- Eycott Hill (44)
- Foulshaw Ospreys viewpoint (77)
- Gosling Sike (13)
- Guest blogger (26)
- Jessie (1)
- Joe Murphy, Senior Reserves Officer (1)
- Laura Giles (1)
- Placements (4)
- Planting for pollinators (2)
- South Walney blog (2)
- Staveley Woodlands (8)
- Stephen Trotter, CEO (4)
- Sylvia Woodhead (7)
- The Wildlife Trusts (46)
- Volunteer (6)
- Wildlife gardening (22)
Topics
- 30 Days Wild (4)
- Arts & Culture (16)
- Climate change (5)
- Eycott Hill (45)
- Foulshaw Ospreys (78)
- Health & Wellbeing (1)
- National Parks (1)
- Nature's Recovery (23)
- Pollinators (5)
- South Walney (3)
- The state of nature (3)
- Volunteers in Action (15)
- Wilder Cumbria (2)
- Wildlife Encounters (12)
Tags
- #DefendNature (1)
- #FoulshawOspreys (5)
- 12 Days Wild (1)
- 30 Days Wild (10)
- 60th Art & Nature (3)
- ants (1)
- apprentice conservation officers (37)
- Art (1)
- Arts & Culture (1)
- arts and crafts (1)
- autumn (7)
- badgers (1)
- bats (1)
- beached art (1)
- Bees (4)
- Big Wild Walk (1)
- bioblitz (1)
- bird hides (1)
- bird ID (1)
- Bird song (1)
- birds (14)
- Birds for beginners (1)
- birds of prey (3)
- birdsong (1)
- birdwatching (10)
- blogs (2)
- bogs (1)
- Bowness-on-Solway (1)
- Brownies (1)
- Bumblebee (2)
- Bumblebees (1)
- Butterflies (8)
- butterflies & Caterpillars (2)
- buzzards (1)
- carbon capture (1)
- climate change (3)
- community (1)
- Composting (1)
- Conference of the Parties (1)
- COP26 summit (1)
- Courtship displays (1)
- creative writing (1)
- Dandelion (1)
- Dawn chorus (1)
- Discovery Day (1)
- Dogs (1)
- doormouse (1)
- dragonflies (2)
- Drumburgh (3)
- Endangered Species (1)
- Events (6)
- Eycott Hill (38)
- family fun (1)
- Fell Care Day (1)
- fencing (1)
- filming (1)
- fish (2)
- fledging (1)
- fledglings (1)
- FOLD (1)
- Foulshaw Moss (58)
- Foulshaw ospreys (11)
- freshwater (1)
- Fungi (2)
- General election (8)
- Get Cumbria Buzzing (4)
- Gosling Sike (19)
- Government (2)
- grassland (1)
- grebe (1)
- grey seal pups (1)
- Grey seals (5)
- guided walks (1)
- habitat creation (1)
- hay meadows (1)
- haymeadows (1)
- Hedgehog (4)
- hedgerows (3)
- hedges (1)
- hibernation (2)
- Highly Protected Marine Areas (1)
- history (1)
- house martins (1)
- hoverflies (1)
- Hutton roof craggs (1)
- Insects (7)
- internships (1)
- Irish Sea (1)
- kingfisher (1)
- Lake District (1)
- land purchase (1)
- leaf litter (1)
- leaves (1)
- Lichen (1)
- Living Landscapes (2)
- Living Seas (1)
- marine (5)
- mating (1)
- Meadow Life (1)
- Meadow Survey (1)
- mink (1)
- mires (1)
- moss (1)
- Moth ID (3)
- Moths (6)
- Mouse ID (1)
- mustelids (1)
- naddles beck (1)
- National Marine Week (4)
- Natural Flood Management (1)
- Nature reserves (18)
- osprey (1)
- ospreys (71)
- otter (1)
- Outdoor Learning (6)
- peatland (1)
- Peatland restoration (1)
- peatlands (1)
- Placement students (1)
- planting for pollinators (3)
- poetry (13)
- polecat (1)
- Pollinators (3)
- Pollinators Bees (2)
- pollution (1)
- Prism Arts (1)
- public transport (1)
- Rainbows (1)
- red squirrels (3)
- rivers (1)
- Rockcliffe Marsh (1)
- Rodents (1)
- Say no to peat compost (1)
- Seabirds (1)
- seal pups (1)
- seawatch (1)
- sedges (1)
- Seed heads (1)
- Shoresearch (1)
- Skiddaw Forest (1)
- Slow the flow (1)
- Solway (1)
- South Walney (4)
- Species ID (1)
- State of Nature (2)
- Staveley Woodlands (7)
- stoat (1)
- student placements (20)
- Susan Cartwright-Smith (15)
- swallows (1)
- Swifts (2)
- teenagers (1)
- Thacka Beck (1)
- training (2)
- trees (4)
- volunteer (4)
- Volunteer training (2)
- Volunteering (17)
- waders (1)
- wagtail (1)
- Walk (2)
- walling (1)
- water quality (1)
- weasel (1)
- weather (2)
- wetlands (1)
- wild flowers (10)
- wildflowers (2)
- wildlife (7)
- wildlife disturbance (1)
- wildlife friendly farming (2)
- wildlife gardening (33)
- wildlife recording (7)
- Wildlife Watch (2)
- woodland (3)
- work experience (1)
- Wreay Woods (1)
- Young Conservationist Career days (1)
- Young people (1)