Blog: Reserves Team

Starlings at Lackford Lakes - Mike Andrews

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Clouded magpie moth – Michael Andrews

Weekly wild news from our reserves - 5 August 2022

Catch up on the latest news from our reserve wardens. This week’s wildlife highlights include a spider eating wasp, a water stick insect, marvellous moths, lush fen flora and coppice coups.…

Hobby in artificial nest at Carlton Marshes 2022

Weekly wild news from our reserves - 29 July 2022

This week’s reserve sightings included a hobby checking out our artificial nest, a wasp collecting pulp, a garden tiger moth, wasp spiders, meadowsweet and beautiful butterflies. Meanwhile our…

White mantled wainscot moth – Anthony Wren

Weekly wild news from our reserves - 8 July 2022

This week our reserves team have been celebrating insects - with a rare moth expanding its range at Carlton Marshes, another new bee species discovered at Lackford Lakes, butterflies galore across…

Pantaloon bee at Lackford Lakes - Hawk Honey

Weekly wild news from our reserves - 1 July 2022

This week our reserve team discovered rare wasps, a bee with trousers, a female stag beetle and a giant fungus which smells of watermelon. Meanwhile a new bench and access ramp were installed, and…

Male lesser stag beetle at Newbourne Springs - Rachel Norman

Weekly wild news from our reserves - 17 June 2022

It's been an exciting week across our reserves, with pochard ducklings and garganey at Trimley Marshes, female marsh harriers clashing at Castle Marshes, swift eggs hatching at Lackford Lakes…

Green carpet moth - Dan Doughty

Weekly wild news from our reserves – 20 May 2022

This week has been packed full of wildlife, with hobbies, water voles, marsh harriers and a bittern. Also exciting insects including a green hairstreak butterfly, drinker moth, four spotted…

Wild garlic at Bradfield Woods – Alex Lack

Weekly wild news from our reserves - 13 May 2022

This week more special wildlife was recorded, with rare shepherd's cress, a ringed China-mark moth, turtle dove and nightingale. Also woodland wildflowers and orchids were seen, and a grass…