Field Studies Council

Have you spotted your first snowdrop yet? Or even an early daffodil? Help us chart the arrival of spring by joining our interactive Signs of Spring project, in partnership with Royal Society of Biology . Take part now by sharing when you see snowdrops, or other early spring wildlife, and the data will help track changes and make observations about the potential impacts of climate change. Read about the exciting project:https://buff.ly/3BU9BV2 Record a sighting: https://buff.ly/3ONhwXa #SpringSpotting #SpringWatch #SpringWildlife #Snowdrop #CitizenScience #SignsOfSpring

Many trees may have no leaves in winter, but this doesn’t mean you can’t identify them! 🌳 🔍 ❄️ This January, we’re delving into winter tree identification – covering the hints and tips you can get from bark, buds, and branches. 🌳 To start with winter tree identification, you would need to observe features such as: The texture and colour of the bark The shape, size and pattern of the buds The overall shape of the tree and how the branches grow and divide Any fruits and seeds left on or around the tree 🥜 🌳 👉 Follow our socials to hear more about winter tree identification. Join our course starting on the 22nd of January to learn more from an expert tutor: https://buff.ly/3PhL13B #WinterTrees #TreeID #Nature #Wildlife #Ecology #Botany

🎇🥳Happy New Year!🥳🎇 Thank you for supporting us throughout 2024 and if you did visit us for a field trip, natural history course or leisure course, we hope you enjoyed your stay and we look forward to welcoming you back in 2025. Our centres will be back open in the new year and ready for a new term of outdoor education!🌿 From all of us here at Field Studies Council! #HappyNewYear #OutdoorEducation #OutdoorLearning

Season's Greetings!🔔 We hope that you've got plans to spend this time with family and friends and enjoy nature over the festive season.🌿 Thank you so much for your support this year and we hope you can join us in 2025!🎄 From all of the team at Field Studies Council.🤗

It's great to see outdoor learning taking place in Birmingham city centre.🌇 We are so excited to be leading urban fieldwork courses in Birmingham to help young people better understand urban environments and how they change and develop over time. 🏙️ If we want to nurture the next generation of successful urban designers, town planners and big city thinkers then young people need to understand the relationships between our natural and built environments and learn about the impact of change. These courses challenge students to think about all these things. 🎓 We have teaching sites across the city that are all reachable by train or coach, making these courses easily accessible.🚌 From The Bullring and Digbeth, through to Millenium Point and Perry Barr, the location for the Commonwealth Games 2022, students will learn valuable fieldwork techniques whilst discovering these fascinating locations. Thank you to School Travel Organizer for sharing our news. 👉

We are excited to announce that we will once again be taking part in welcoming and charting the arrival of spring next year, by launching our interactive 'Signs of Spring' project, in partnership with @royalsocbio. Last year saw 1,160 sightings of snowdrops and 828 people registered daffodils! Next year we’re hoping to get even more people involved across the whole of Britain! The survey will open on January 1st 2025 – so if you are heading outside to welcome in the New Year – remember to keep your eyes open for those first signs of spring! We want to hear from you all the way through until June, from the first signs to the last markers of the season, all making their way onto our interactive map. Read more about the project here: https://buff.ly/3ONhwXa #SpringSpotting #SpringWatch #SpringWildlife #Snowdrop #CitizenScience

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Environmental learning needs to be embedded into the new curriculum.🌍 How will the ecologists, conservationists, habitat managers, wildlife restoration officers and biodiversity managers of the future know that these jobs are open to them? The only truly effective way to make sure these #GreenSkills for nature are nurtured and developed is to give young people access to good quality #fieldwork, and we are calling on the government to make sure that this is embedded into any new #curriculum it develops.🌲 👉 Read more: https://buff.ly/3OT5taQ

We’re delighted to be at the British Ecological Society Annual Conference and what a great day so far! If you’re coming along, please pop by and say hello, we are at stand 3 in the exhibition hall. 🦋🍀👋 #BES2024 British Ecological Society

Take part in a Mistletoe Ecology citizen science project this Christmas.🌱 Mistletoe has an air of Christmas magic, but it is, in fact, a parasite with a fascinating relationship with trees. 🌲 MistleGo! is an exciting new research project by Oliver Spacey, a previous Young Darwin Scholar and aims to gather data and forecast the future of this intriguing and important plant. 👉 Read his story and find out how you can get involved: https://buff.ly/4fbS2xc #Mistletoe #CitizenScience #YoungDarwinScholar #OxfordUniversity #Ecology #Nature #Christmas