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Many aspects of wildlife recording are nothing like most people imagine. It’s not all listening for delicate birdsong or identifying otter and water vole tracks on the riverbanks... sometimes it's combing the sand for bodies lost at sea! February 23 rd saw the intrepid Fraserburgh &...

RSPB Scotland's Youth & Education Team reflect on their favourite childhood moments in nature, and remind us of an exciting new initiative to reward children and young people today who are protecting Scotland's natural environment for future generations to enjoy. “Snail farming”...

One Primary 5 class at Duddingston Primary in Edinburgh took part in the Big Schools Birdwatch this year, after being encouraged by one of their own pupils, nine year old Johnny Blairford . Julia Horton , from the Times Educational Supplement Scotland , joined in the fun, and you can read her full report...

In October this year, the Mersehead Moorhens, RSPB Scotland’s most southerly Wildlife Explorer Group, visited a local residential centre to work with some of their residents in their wildlife garden. This was an opportunity that the Moorhen’s were extremely excited about, having been involved...

The Nature of Scotland Awards returns for a second year to celebrate excellence, innovation and outstanding achievement in Scottish nature conservation. This year, the awards also include, for the first time, a category recognising the important work that schools or youth groups undertake to nurture...

Are you ready to take part in the UK’s largest tree celebration? National Tree Week begins this Saturday, 24th November, and runs until 2nd December, giving you plenty of time to get involved in many of the organised activities running all over the UK, or to have fun taking part in your own tree...

Autumn is, in my opinion, the best time of year for some outdoor art work. There's such a variety of vibrant colours around, plenty of leaves, seeds and twigs lying around to gather up, and the weather hasn't quite reached the point where your fingers are frozen within minutes of being outside...

Children merrily sort through conkers, pine cones, acorns and berries that they have spent the past few days collecting. They choose their favourite and get covered in soil as they fill their pots, label them, plant and water. Later on their fingers get stained purple as they help stewing fresh blackberries...

The groundsman at my daughters school recently cut the grass in the school playing field (it hasn't yet been sold off). Due to a bumper growth over the summer and possibly a bit of a summer break, the grass this year was longer than normal. This meant that when it was cut the grass dried out to make...

It's harvest festival time of year. Perhaps your having a special assembly or visiting a local church. Maybe your collecting for a homeless charity or food bank. I love this time of year, it's important to take the time to reflect on all the good things that we have in our lives and to think...

Many of you will be enjoying the start of the school summer holidays, with six long weeks stretching ahead. Maybe you've got a lovely holiday by the pool to look forward to, or something more adventurous or engergetic? Perhaps, like me, you have decided to make the most of all the amazing scenery...

Scotland's newest RSPB Youth Group has just launched in spectacular style, so for a peek at the kind of brilliance and opportunity our groups attract please read on for an account written by a brand new Phoenix - Annie, aged 16. Edinburgh Phoenix Diary, 27th May 2012 The temperatures were...

Nature is a wonderful source of inspiration for many artists (and budding artists to be). This lovely weather should hopefully encourage schools to creatively engage with the nature in their school grounds, or even further afield at one of our living classroom sites. Ofsted have recently stressed...

If you enjoyed Big Schools' Birdwatch, I think it's fair to say you're going to like our next annual nature survey - Make Your Nature Count, which takes places between 2nd - 10th June. Take a step for nature by spending an hour recording the summer sightings of wildlife in your school...

We have recently become content partners on the Times Education (TES) website - which means we can upload and share our resources directly with the 1.8 million teachers that search their resource database. This is a fantastic scheme which gives us some great promotion whilst at the same time showing...

You may well have already heard this morning that the question of how to connect more children to nature is back in the news again? The National Trust has launched a new report highlighting the issue , as well as an online enquiry to gather public opinion on what should be done. In a week where...

Glasgow’s remarkable wildlife will be the centre of attention next Sunday (February 19) as The Urban Birder, David Lindo, pays the city a rare visit. As well as urban birding, David’s talk will also look at urban conservation issues and what can be done to help our city birds. His book, The...

If your class or group enjoyed counting birds for the Big Schools Birdwatch try extending their learning and interest even further by finding out about bird behaviour and bird song. This months RSPB WildSquare survey is all about listening out for common (and easily recognisable) bird song and bird calls...

We're half way through the Birdwatch now, and it's been our most exciting one so far! As well as lots of people getting involved, and registering for our resource packs, we've had an amazing amount of media coverage. We've been on the Alan Titchmarsh show, and were also featured on Newsround...

So you may have done your Birdwatch and submitted your results already, or perhaps you are still getting ready for it by learning about the birds that are likely to visit your school grounds. Either way, here is a great quiz provided by Education Quizzes to test your student's knowledge of what...

You might have seen us on the Alan Titchmarsh Show on Monday - what a great start to the Big Schools' Birdwatch ! Kate Humble, the RSPB's President did a wonderful job explaining how important the Birdwatch is - we hope it has inspired lots of new teachers and young people to participate....

So, the Big Schools' Birdwatch starts today at last! We're kicking off the event by going on the Alan Titchmarsh show with the children of the Charles Dickens Primary School, Southwark, London. They will be showing the world their knowledge of birds and what they've been doing in school...

Glasgow’s schoolchildren have been celebrating Scotland’s amazing wildlife with an art competition organised by RSPB Scotland. Drawings, painting and sculptures were created as part of the RSPB’s annual Big Schools’ Birdwatch (which this year runs from 16-30 January) and all...

Here are a few ideas you can do to prepare for Big Schools' Birdwatch (it starts next week!) This year there is a new book which you can buy to help you with your Birdwatch. It's called The Big RSPB Birdwatch . The book is aimed at children and can be a useful resource for identifying birds;...

There's one week to go until young people all over the country will be getting outside and counting the birds visiting their school grounds or local park by taking part in Big Schools' Birdwatch . The chances are that you will be taking part in it too if you are reading this blog - if so please...