Wildlife – Suffolkwilds

Wild words to welcome autumn

‘The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their proper name’

The sheer vitality of swifts is a wonder of the animal kingdom.

A family of Egyptian geese now call Sudbury home.

Now the reeds have died back, its easier to see just how many of these attractive birds there are on the riverside.

A family bereavement brings us closer to the delightful collared dove

At this time of freezing temperatures and food scarcity, it’s tempting for us to behave like some animal species and go to sleep.

The story behind the return of the water vole is a tale of two semi-aquatic mammal species, not one.

Bats’ use of echolocation to navigate, and hunt insects at night is simply mind-blowing in its sophistication.