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Featured species
Pay a visit to these pages at the start of each month to find out what out which wildlife is out and about at the moment!
We will also publish pictures of wildlife that you send us, as well as information about sightings that have been made by you. Go to our recording pages to record what you've seen - your sightings don't have to be particularly exciting - all wildlife counts!
March - look out for...
Mad March Hare!
Brown hares (Lepus europaeus), unlike rabbits have black tips to their ears.
The brown hare is crepuscular (twilight) or nocturnal, and spends the day resting under cover. It can be found in all types of landscape from lowland to wooded high mountain districts - however it mainly lives on farmland, especially permanent pasture.
The hare is very active and may travel up to several kilometres in a single night. It is a herbivore and feeds on soft green plant parts in the growing season, and in autumn nibbles a thte above ground parts of tubers and fleshy roots. The brown hare has similar droppings to those of the rabbit, however they are larger, less regularly spherical, and food remains can be easily identified within them.
The brown hare is highly recorded just south of Swindon, but so far there are relatively few records within and directly around Swindon itself.
Also appearing in March in a garden near you...
The song thrush - a natural predator of slugs and snails. Has faced serious decline in recent years mainly due to habitat loss. The reason for the loss of the song thrush from the nation's garden has been partly attributed to the increasing popularity of wooden decking. You don't have to remove your decking, but you can help the song thrush return to your garden by maintaining an area of lawn where it can feed on those pesky slugs.
Look out for lapwings...
The lapwing is massively under-recorded in Wiltshire and Swindon, and the Wiltshire and Swindon Biological Records Centre would like your records.
Go to the biological recording section of this website to find out more...