Weekly wild news from our reserves - 10 February 2023
This week on our reserves, we’ve uncovered stag beetles at Newbourne Springs, watched a heron tackle an eel and made deadwood habitat at Carlton Marshes...
This week on our reserves, we’ve uncovered stag beetles at Newbourne Springs, watched a heron tackle an eel and made deadwood habitat at Carlton Marshes...
This week, our reserve teams have been repairing gates and fences, seeing the first signs of spring, breathing fresh life into overgrown ponds and checking their trail cams...
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…
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…
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…
This week our wardens have seen a magnificent moonset, a mystery gall, a wisp of snipe, early blossom, a bittern and lots more fabulous fungi.
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,…
Catch up on the latest news from our reserves. Our reserves have had some stunning frosts and scatterings of snow this week, and our wardens and volunteers have got very chilly carrying out…
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…
This week our reserve wardens and volunteers have been busy restoring and maintaining fens and marshes, chainsaw training, and relocating our conservation grazing 'Belties'. Wildlife…