Things are starting to stir on the reserve and the wildlife is beginning to think about breeding- wherever you look you can see signs of courtship, mating and nest-building.

The first of our birds have now returned from Africa and are now singing around the lakes. The first butterflies are flying on a nice day. The leaves are beginning to come out and other insects…

In these strange times when we are stuck at home, wildlife continues as normal. Spring is very active time for much of our wildlife and it is a time of much change with birds arriving back from…

Winter may still be well underway but small signs of spring are emerging throughout the county. Discover the wildlife and natural signs which welcome the beginning of spring.

February is the month when there is a hint of spring around the reserve with our ducks displaying on our lakes and some of our resident birds beginning to sing.

Now we are into May, we enter late spring at the lakes. The spring birds have arrived and the reserve is full of bird song from nightingales to swifts screaming overhead. Added to the birds…

With most of the spring migration now arrived at Lackford Lakes, we will now look at the various number of insects that are now beginning to emerge on the reserve. The much-needed food source that…

Discover the excitement of birding in spring with Dr Dan Wade as he explores highly anticipated arrivals and his favourite memories of birds in Suffolk

It has certainly felt a little like spring in recent weeks at the lakes with many birds singing and exploring places to nest like our singing song thrushes and with the great crested grebes back…

Here at Lackford, winter still has a grip on the reserve but the first signs of spring are beginning to show through. Our ducks and grebes are displaying wherever there is water, and the bushes…