CABINET OF CURIOSITIES

  Low Barns is Durham Wildlife Trust’s largest wetland reserve and the commonest trees there are alders, whose leaves are currently being c...

About a week ago, when we were walking near Wolsingham in Weardale, we came across a remarkable concentration of small skipper butterflies ...

A coot, creating ripples amongst the reflected reeds at Durham Wildlife Trust's Low Barns Nature Reserve, near Witton-le-Wear. Double-cl...

The walkway built out over the new wetland area at Durham Wildlife Trust's Low Barns Reserve at Witton-le-Wear offers excellent opport...

These spectacular examples of the slime mould Reticularia lycoperdon are currently to be seen on the trunks of an alder, in the Long Alder ...