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What do you do if your Wildlife Explorer group meets at a very windy place? Make kites, of course! Whilst the Marsh Harrier team were off surveying breeding bitterns and harriers, the Purple Heron team got down to making Fish Kites. Using wire, sticks, string and crepe paper they produced some...

That was the tricky question we posed the Wildlife Explorers at their meeting last week .... Wildlife Explorers at RSPB Dungeness spent last Saturday morning exploring the importance of plants! Did you realise just how many items in your shopping basket are plant based? From clothing, food and paper...

What could be better on a cold February morning than some hard work to warm you up followed by a bonfire? That's just what the Dungeness Purple Herons did at their last meeting - under the watchful eyes of Craig and Colin they cut and shifted dead vegetation and then burnt it on a lovely warming...

Last Saturday the Dungeness Purple Herons held their annual Christmas Quiz. With Colin's homemade mince pies and cranberry juice to keep them going, the children put on their thinking caps to take part in three quizzes during the morning. Arun and new member Oscar won June and Colin's "Say...

Fourteen snails lined up on the starting grid to take part in the WEx Snail Racing Championships 2012 last Saturday. Snails from all over East Kent arrived at the RSPB Dungeness nature reserve ready to race and after three warm-up heats the finalists went through to the "Sliverstone" Championship...

The Dungeness Purple Heron Wildlife Explorers have sent a cheque for £100 to the Rockhopper Penguin appeal. The money, raised by selling second-hand books in the Visitor centre at RSPB Dungeness nature reserve will be used to promote the conservation of the Rockhopper penguin and its habitats....

Last Saturday you may have been surprised to see a gang of spooky bats, wicked werewolves and weird and wonderful monsters hanging around the Visitor Centre at RSPB Dungeness! They were in fact the WEx Purple herons group out having some Halloween fun. Out on the nature trail, magic potions were mixed...

Calling all witches, wizards, ghouls and ghosties! Come dressed in your best halloween costumes on Saturday 27 October 2012 between 2 pm and 4 pm, for an afternoon of spooky trails and spine-chilling face painting at RSPB Dungeness nature reserve. Mix up a ghoulish treat for the birds in our cauldron...

It was a tough job ... but the judges finally decided on the winners in the Focus on Insects Photography Competition. RSPB Dungeness site manager Martin Randall spent the afternoon deliberating. The entries were, without exception, of a very high standard and the young photographers, all aged under 16...

Families will be flocking to the RSPB Dungeness nature reserve on Saturday 11 and Sunday 12 August to enjoy our Family Fun weekend. A whole host of wildlife activities will keep families busy: face painting, pond dipping, bug hunting, badge making, bumble bee trails and lots more will be on offer. Entrance...

1. Badgers really love earthworms , but how many can they eat? a) 200 a day, b) 200 a week or c) 200 a month 2. There are over 1,000 species of bat in the world, but how many are found in the UK? a) 7 b) 17 or c) 170 3.The saying "blind as a bat" isn't actually true - but who...