Our final blog for our 60th anniversary year! This week our wardens and volunteers made scrapes for skylark, relocated a swan, built bat boxes and captured some stunning views.

This week our reserve teams saw avocets galore at Hazlewood Marshes, recycled a Corsican pine and were busy pollarding and clearing ditches at our winter work parties.

This week our reserves teams saw a ring-tailed hen harrier and were busy milling ash and restoring heathland whilst many reserves got a sprinkling of snow.

From changing colours, wandering harriers and murmurating starlings, to snoozing, shivering blue tits and blonde-faced ducks, it’s all happening on our reserve this week.

This week our reserve teams have been full steam ahead with reserve management; coppicing, dead hedging, restoring a pond, restructuring scrub and creating wheelchair access to our new hide.

This week our reserve teams and volunteers built a muntjac barricade, saw several snow buntings, a feathered thorn moth and more fabulous fungi.

This week our reserve teams saw a great white egret, a flock of lapwing, a ruby tiger caterpillar, fabulous fungi and the first frost. They also got stuck in managing willow and weaving a dead…

This week our reserve teams solved an owl pellet mystery, found a rare moth and saw some exceptionally early signs of spring as they continued with essential habitat management.

The latest news from our reserve teams, this week they saw an otter catch an eel, a 'bleeding' beefsteak fungus, a hazel leaf-roller weevil, bearded tit, curlew, red kite and lots more…

Even though we are moving towards the end of October, the weather has been quite kind to us. There have even been some warm days, so butterflies and dragonflies continue to be seen on the reserve…