Late yesterday afternoon at the Wild Bird feed a juvenile-first winter drake Greater Scaup was spotted on the Rushy
5 December 2022
The reserve typically hosts at least one wintering Merlin, a few sightings of males were made earlier in the autumn but recent encounters suggest that a female has settled to winter
28 November 2022
We noted 33 Bewick's Swans on Sunday 20th, and 43 on Monday 21 November, the majority of the birds have been favouring the Rushy or Tack Piece
21 November 2022
We've seen another eight Bewick's Swans arrive this morning, bringing us to 21 birds on the pond
19 November 2022
The numbers of our winter birds have been building this week, especially Lapwing, Golden Plover, several duck and a record count of Black-tailed Godwit
18 November 2022
A summary of sightings from the last few days
14 November 2022
Up to seven Cattle Egret have been around the reserve this week
11 November 2022
Our first Bewick's Swans of the season have finally arrived
10 November 2022
High tides around the 9 metre mark.
7 November 2022
Redwings and other thrush species arrive in numbers
6 November 2022
After the wet and windy weather comes a morning of glorious sunshine
4 November 2022
After yesterday's storm we've had periods of sunny spells and more heavy showers
3 November 2022
Ahead of the much anticipated arrival of the Bewick's Swans, we've started feeding the Rushy and duck numbers are now increasing
2 November 2022
SeabirdsAround 11:30am a flock of approx 62 Kittiwakes were over the Noose but all headed SW downriver, subsequently a tired looking Leach's Petrel showed up, intitally floating up until chased by gulls and was lost to view, it reappeared later, once aga
1 November 2022
We had a brief period of heavy rain this morning as first light broke, but the Collared Pratincole remains on the South Lake
27 October 2022