Saturday 2nd and Sunday 3rd February 2019 Special wader-focussed walks, talks, trails, workshops and interactive family activities. See waders close up form a hide in their thousands, wheeling on the high tide. Find out more: wwt.org.uk/caerlaverock
We were really disappointed that we couldn't make it to the Evening Exploration event on Saturday - a collaboration between three local organisations Scottish Natural Heritage (SNH), Historic Environment Scotland (HES) and Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust (WWT). However, [.....]
Evening exploration - Sat 20th Oct, 5.30 til 9pm Join staff from Historic Environment Scotland, SNH and WWT on a special evening guided walk around the grounds of Caerlaverock Castle and the NNR. We will look out for [.....]
Wild Goose Weekend at WWT Caerlaverock! Saturday 13th and Sunday 14th October. Thank you to Duncan Irving for passing on this information. If you have an event that you'd like publicised, please do send it to us at [.....]
A beautiful exhibition of acrylic paintings on canvas by Mary Carberry at WWT Caerlaverock 29th July to 15th September 2018 The work references natural forms and explores the artist’s belief that each element of the environment has [.....]
ITV report on Chris Packham's visit to WWT Caerlaverock on his UK wide BioBlitz: and a Positive News story about farmers planting wildflowers for bees (down south): Love seeing some of the wildflowers in the fields around [.....]
Did you see the Caerlaverock Special on ITV Border Life recently? Grab a cup of tea, and sit down for 20 minutes to watch Sandy McCracken present this beautiful feature all about our cracking little corner of [.....]
WWT Caerlaverock posted this information on Facebook today: "We are excited that Chris Packham's UK Bioblitz is coming to WWT Caerlaverock tomorrow, Tuesday 17th July. This is what will be happening during the day: 10am-5pm Moth trapping [.....]
“Chris Packham’s 2018 BioBlitz – nature reserves are not enough!” campaign TV presenter and naturalist Chris Packham is coming to WWT Caerlaverock Wetland Centre, one of the 48 sites across the UK he'll visit, as part of [.....]
Charlotte Briere-Edney of ITV Border News has been to Caerlaverock Wildfowl and Wetland Centre (WWT) to film it at its driest for decades... She reports that "the centre is having to pump water from a nearby river to keep ponds topped [.....]
Thank you to the WWT Caerlaverock for sending us their Events for July. We've arranged them here for you to browse and for ease of viewing. There's so much going on, get yourself booked in and go along!
Thank you to the WWT Caerlaverock for sending us their Events for August. We've arranged them here for you to browse and for ease of viewing. There's so much going on on our doorstep, get yourself booked in and go along!
Thank you to the WWT Caerlaverock for sending us their Events for May and June. We've arranged them here for you to browse and for ease of viewing. There's so much going on, get yourself booked in and go along!
Macro photography - see the natural world in close up! Just one of the many events in May and June this year. Check out our lovely listing of all the Events at Caerlaverock WWT here. Learn how [.....]
Thanks to Sue Greig, who got in touch a few days ago after seeing a lone barnacle goose on the shore outside their house. She noticed that it was ringed, and with eagle eyes (and binoculars), took a note [.....]
Thanks to Caerlaverock NNR Reserve Officer Adam Murphy for sending us this report! Visitors to WWT Caerlaverock on Saturday 20th January were lucky enough to catch a glimpse of a rare celebrity sighting, as comedian and musician, Bill [.....]
We got in touch with the BBC Springwatch team, and they kindly sent us the full-length clip of the incredible triops (found only at WWT Caerlaverock and one other location in the UK) and featured in their recent [.....]
Meet the triops, an endangered species - a 3 eyed 'tadpole shrimp' that can trace its history back more than two hundred million years! i.e. during the Triassic period... before the dinosaurs! Believed to have survived barely changed [.....]
A 'December date' for your diary... 2nd December 2017 1 - 4pm. Free entry at WWT Caerlaverock Along with stalls of local and hand-made Christmas gifts in the barn, mulled wine and the sound of wild barnacle geese, [.....]
