Good to watch a sunrise this morning - beautiful! Lots of mist hanging in the air, making it quite atmospheric.

Certainly beats the 6 over Blackroot Pool a few autumns ago; fantastic!

The 2023 grazing season has concluded; all cattle have successfully returned to their farm. We though we might take the opportunity to share a photograph taken in the 1890's showing cattle stood in the vicinity of the beach at Bracebridge Pool!

We are very excited to be working today with Sutton Ranger and staff from Coca-Cola GB at our local site Plantsbrook LNR. Great improvements in access, security and habitat management are coming up! #CSR #sustainability #conservation #communities

CET Sutton Ranger Coca-Cola GB BOSF - @bosfonline.bsky.social 🦋 Naturally Birmingham The Conservation Volunteers (TCV) Paulette Hamilton MP Uni of Birmingham Birmingham & Black Country Wildlife Trust Great work, it’s looking clearer now 💪

Some wonderful volunteers from Coca-Cola volunteered their time to make improvements at Plantsbrook LNR. A big thank you to you, as well as the Ranger service teams from Sutton Ranger and Lickey Hills providing tools and facilitating this

I finally got to see my first Small Coppers this weekend! Got there eventually! Also a steady stream Red Admirals seen throughout the day. One Comma spotted and a white species flying high up. Sutton Ranger

@carlhiles Sutton Ranger Only had one Small Copper in the garden this year, perhaps the wind will blow another one over. Also, does anyone know if there is regular monitoring of butterfly populations in Sutton Park (ie transects)?

Regular monitoring is indeed in place. Several transects including some that target specific species. Alongside the formal work is a great deal of informal monitoring both by site staff and visitors so that site works can planned to benefit as many groups as is possible.

Lots of Stonechat movement going on Sutton Ranger . Only 2 of our ringed pairs appear to be on site, and only the one ringed juvenile was noted. Lots of unringed birds now appearing in the park, forming groups up to 8 in number. West Midlands Ringing Group Chris Millward Jnr

Big congrats to Nick and Anja and all Friends of Boldmere Spinney on new community noticeboard launched today! Funded by Bham City Council CWG award, installed by Sutton Ranger team, great #Sutton #Vesey community project!

On woodland and heathland landscape restoration tour of Sutton Park today with the brilliant Matt from Sutton Ranger - stunning story of long term success!

Killer Pumpkins - pumpkins are potentially fatal for hedgehogs. Please leave them out of the way on tables or bird feeders; and never in parks and nature reserves. If you see any in the park let us know so we can remove immediately as they also pose a choke hazard for our ponies!

Long term partnership work with one of the many wonderful and sadly often unsung local and regional volunteer groups that support the park with tireless activity #volunteers #nature #convervation #reptiles

If you are interested in heathland insects & other invertebrates, here's a link to a survey of Sutton Park, Birmingham carried out by Chris Kirby-Lambert and myself in 2018-19: researchgate.net/publication/37…. We found 1,775 taxa, 81 with conservation statuses, despite a summer drought!

Massive thanks to the Sutton Ranger team for commissioning the works and being so supportive. If you've never visited, it really is like a bit of the New Forest set within the northern suburbs of Birmingham, and it supports some really special plants and 'bugs'.

Stonechat male Ringed ZA and unringed female seen in sutton Park this morning taken with a Canon R7 and RF 800 mm F11 lens West Midlands Ringing Group Sutton birder @RSPBSuttonCold Sutton Ranger @WestMidsBirding RSPB RSPB Birders RSPB England #stonechat

Wyndley Pool is currently being slowly lowered by 300mm to enable repair works to take place; full details please follow this link facebook.com/share/p/9ufNrb…

Exploring the Visitor Centre Sutton Ranger

Today the rangers are up at the finish line of the Serpent Trail Race, talking about everything heathland! #serpenttrail #trailrunning #running #heathland #conservation