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Black winged Stilts at Carlton Marshes, Gavin Durrant

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Bearded tit at Trimley Marshes - Carl Earrye

Weekly wild news from our reserves - 27 January 2023

This week’s wildlife highlights from our reserves include snow bunting, bearded tits, ram’s horn gall, wigeon, lapwing and snipe. The wardens have been busy protecting a footpath from the tidal…

Bearded tits feeding – Andy Hickinbotham

Weekly wild news from our reserves - 20 January 2023

This week our wardens and volunteers have braved the freezing conditions for fence repairs, sluice works, herding ponies, gorse removal and woodland management. Wildlife sightings included a rare…

Aerial view of Carlton Marshes - Mike Page Photography

Weekly wild news from our reserves - 13 January 2023

This week our wardens and volunteers have been managing reedbeds, protecting scrub and creating habitat for nightjar and woodlark. They also snapped some amazing vistas, and a kestrel was caught…

Knettishall Heath – Sam Norris

Weekly wild news from our reserves - 23 December 2022

This week’s wildlife highlights were an otter, a buzzard, a water rail, and a heron in the frost. Our wardens have been hard at work installing a sluice, making a scrape with a kingfisher bank,…

Otter with tench – Gavin Durrant

Weekly wild news from our reserves - 9 December 2022

There have been stunning views this week, whilst our wardens and volunteers have been busy with coppicing, tree safety work and livestock checks. They also spotted otters, a bittern and Eurasian…