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While the snow might be disrupting your day, its a great opportunity to check what wildlife has been exploring your garden! Here are some fox tracks spotted this morning! 🦊 wildlifetrusts.org/how-identify/i…

It's a very snowy start to the year in Birmingham and the Black Country! What was your favourite wildlife sighting over the festive break?

It's the final West Midlands Recording League Table of the Year! There's been a bit of change since last time, with Wolverhampton rising to 4th in the league by number of species! Solihull had a good month with the biggest increase in species (161) and % increase in Obs (37%).

So, let your festive creativity flow and submit a wonderful image of your Black Country fossil inspired artwork for the chance of winning a prize and becoming an international artistic representative of the Black Country in 2026.

So, what do you need to do to enter? It couldn’t be simpler, just create an artwork based on Black Country fossils and then submit a digital image of your fossil-themed artwork to blackcountrygeopark@dudley.gov.uk before 5pm on the 31st December 2025.

The Black Country Unesco Global Geopark @BCgeoparkteam are delighted to announce that they are launching a public Art competition today themed on the Fossils of the Black Country UNESCO Global Geopark. It free to enter and open for anyone. (closing date is 31/12/2025).

As the days get colder, our resident birds are joined by migrants fleeing the harsher weather of northern and eastern Europe. Redwings and fieldfares arrive in their masses, joining blackbirds to strip berries from bushes. This Fieldfare was spotted by jsmithy1943 on iNaturalist

Nice walk around the City Centre Gardens area of Brum city centre this morning. Mistle Thrush, Song Thrush and a male Blackcap the highlights. No Black Redstart though (has a Robin pushed it off its territory?). Some images. @WestMidBirdClub @EcoRecording

Birmingham City run; 2 Black Redstart 2 Peregrine 4 Raven Kingfisher Yday brown Bourn Brook surprise 3 Kingfisher Great!

21/11/25 Birmingham City centre run Black Redstart Kingfisher from roost Great!

Looking to grow your species ID skills? Take part in the upcoming iNaturalist ID-a-thon event - a global initiative from mid-December to mid-January to help identify iNat observations from around the world! For more info, join the mailing list at cdn.forms-content.sg-form.com/329e8835-c555-…

Black Redstart in Birmingham city centre. @WestMidBirdClub @EcoRecording

1st Nov 2025 Birmingham City run Kingfisher from roost Black Redstart from roost Great!

A drake Shoveler (first since Jan 2024) was the highlight of an early morning walk at Hill Hook LNR, also 50+ Black-headed Gulls, Nuthatch, Goldfinch, Blue & Long-tailed Tits. Fewer Tufted Duck than recently. @EcoRecording @pmandrews1973