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Hide closure: Sunday 9 November

No access to Ron Barker, Hale and Mere View Hides
Unfortunately, we have had a recent case of avian influenza, commonly known as bird flu, in our collection birds. To prevent further spread of the disease, we are putting in place some additional protection measures, which includes testing the birds in our duckery. To allow our teams the time and space to do this, we’ve temporarily closed this part of the wetland reserve and will reopen on Monday 10 November.

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Warmer but wetter

Today's sightings page isn't packed with reports. I guess many potential visitors (people) looked out of the window into the squally rain showers and decided to give it a miss!

It's worth noting that it's possible to rack up over 60 species of wild bird around the reserve at the moment, with a total bird population of 15,000+ an impressive sight anywhere.

A few reports received did included Treecreeper and Marsh Harrier, not in the same binocular view...

The feeding stations always have Tree Sparrows present and the Mere is the top spot to catch Ruff with 30+ birds.

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