Lake District Archives - Wild Haweswater

Wild Haweswater revealed as finalist in the 2024 Ashden Awards.

By wildhaweswater / March 13, 2024

We’re delighted to be one of seventeen outstanding organisations delivering innovative climate solutions that have reached the finals of the prestigious 2024 Ashden Awards. Over 500 organisations applied for the 2024 Ashden Awards, and Wild Haweswater is one of just two finalists in the category of Nature Based Solutions (UK) celebrating inclusive, community-led transformation in […]

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200th tree planted in Haweswater Celebration Wood

By wildhaweswater / February 1, 2024

As part of our work to restore the landscape here, we’re delighted to have planted the 200th tree in Celebration Wood, which neighbours the mossy ancient woodland of Naddle Forest here at Wild Haweswater.

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Meet the Haweswater tweed

By wildhaweswater / November 20, 2023

Haweswater tweed throw in blue, image credit: Lake District Tweed We’re excited that a unique Haweswater tweed has been produced by Cumbrian company Lake District Tweed and it is proving to be popular in the US as well as at home. Lake District Tweed began producing tweed inspired by different valleys across the Lake District

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Volunteer Voices: Phil’s path to Haweswater

By wildhaweswater / September 5, 2023

This International Day of Charity, one of our volunteers Phil, tells us all about how he got into volunteering for the RSPB… Phil volunteers in the Tree Nursery at Haweswater. Image taken by Visitor Experience Manager Annabel When I was a nine-year old boy, in the not-too-pretty town of West Hartlepool, some days I would

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A Vision of Haweswater’s Future

By wildhaweswater / February 20, 2022

Tucked away at the eastern edge of the Lake District National Park, Haweswater Reservoir sits encircled by looming fells. The glacially-carved landscape is studded with mossy woodlands, rocky crags, bogs, tarns and rushing streams. The whole area is owned by water company United Utilities, and the reservoir supplies 2 million of their customers with their

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Holes in the map, part 2: Black Grouse

By wildhaweswater / April 16, 2020

RSPB Haweswater Site Manager, Lee Schofield, reflects on a species that recently vanished from the Lake District and what maps can tell us about the history of wildlife in Cumbria. For my 40th birthday, not too long ago, my wife gave me a framed print of the 1:25,000 Ordnance Survey map of the area surrounding

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Warden’s Journal: Signs of Spring

By wildhaweswater / April 6, 2020

In the first of our Warden’s Journal entries, Haweswater Site Warden Spike Webb shares his sightings of spring in our corner of the Lake District, prior to the lockdown.

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Welcoming spring together

By wildhaweswater / March 19, 2020

Today marks the First Day of Spring, and amongst the uncertainty presented in ‘our’ world right now, the natural world – that which we remain a part of – is preparing to once again embark upon the most incredible celebration of emergence, rebirth and colour.

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From Saltholme to Haweswater… and back again

By wildhaweswater / November 25, 2019

Last week, Visitor Experience Intern Laura Pringle travelled from RSPB Saltholme in industrial Teesside to our rural Haweswater base, on a trip to explore the distinctions between our two sites. Here she shares her mini-adventure with us…

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Haweswater Badger Hide: Celebrating Six Months

By wildhaweswater / October 6, 2019

As fresh leaves began to open on the trees, so too opened the doors to the Haweswater Badger Hide to welcome its very first visitors this April. Construction of the hide took place through the 2018/19 autumn season by the RSPB Haweswater team, a project initiated, designed and managed by our incredible Warden, Mal. As

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