Search our site
-
Contact us
Contact us
Find out how to get in touch with a member of the Woodland Trust team who can help answer your questions.
-
Woodland Trust Wood
Whittle Dene
Ovingham
19.58 ha (48.38 acres)
-
Blog
Types of mushroom in the UK: common identification guide
Mushrooms (or toadstools) is a term given to the fleshy, spore-bearing fruiting bodies that certain fungi produce. Here are nine common mushrooms that you may come across.
Helen Keating • 31 Aug 2017
-
Press centre
Agroforestry for Scottish farming’s future
The Scottish Government is crafting its new agricultural support scheme, representing the biggest change in the support and regulation of land use and management in Scotland for 40 years.
-
Press centre
Rhododendron is destroying our native wildlife
Popular for its pretty flowers, Rhododendron ponticum is an invasive non-native species and is damaging native woods and wildlife.
-
Trees woods and wildlife
Speckled wood
Understated yet headstrong, the speckled wood spends its time basking in sun-dappled woodland and fiercely patrolling its patch.
-
Trees woods and wildlife
Common crossbill
Bright colours and big beaks. The crossbill is a striking resident of coniferous woodland, using its unusually-shaped bill to extract pine seeds.
-
Trees woods and wildlife
Common lizard
Timid, lightning-quick and sun-worshipping. The common lizard basks in the warmth of the sun along woodland edges, sunny glades and rides. It stays close to dense cover so it can quickly hide among twigs, logs and leaves.
-
Trees woods and wildlife
Robin
Feisty. Iconic. A Christmas card favourite and a gardener’s best friend. It’s no wonder this fiery little fella is one of Britain’s most-loved birds, frequenting the UK’s gardens in search of worms.
-
Trees woods and wildlife
Lesser spotted woodpecker
Secretive tree-top dweller. The lesser spotted is our smallest, and rarest, woodpecker. These woodland specialists are one of the UK’s fastest-declining bird species.