
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…
Starlings at Lackford Lakes - Mike Andrews
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…
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…
It was a week of rare and unusual wildlife, with a snorkelling stick insect, first record of a wall brown, soprano pipistrelle bats, nightingale melodies and luscious woodland flowers...
This week our reserve teams spotted more marvellous spring wildlife, with reptiles and amphibians breeding and basking, skylarks singing and a first black tern. They also installed cattle gates,…
It certainly now feels like spring at Lackford with many of our warblers now back at the lakes. As you wander around you will hear lots of blackcap, chiffchaff, whitethroat etc. singing away so…
This week our reserve teams recorded gorgeous signs of spring across the county, with a cuckoo and a cuckooflower, a grasshopper warbler and woodland wildflowers. They also discovered some amazing…
This week spring wildlife abounds, with willow warbler melody, a caddis fly larva, scarlet elf cups and wild flowers including cuckoo flowers, cowslips, wood anemones, early purple orchids and…
This week our reserve teams have been busy with plover fencing and path improvements and our wonderful volunteers helped install new bike racks and collected a shocking amount of rubbish during a…
As we head into April we are now starting to see many birds arriving back from Africa like swallows. Here is a quick look at our sightings board and our arrival sheet.
The last day of March saw a dusting of snow, and some of the first arrivals from Africa. Our reserve wardens and volunteers have captured some fascinating footage from our trail cams too.