Blogs

I've not yet written about the proposed Severn barrage on this blog - which is a bit odd as it's a big issue and an important subject and we have been very involved in these discussions for years. I grew up in Bristol and much of my early birdwatching...

Regular readers will know that my blog entries can be, er, well let's say sporadic. But there's lots happening on the reserve at the moment, so here's some more bits of news. First, we welcome our new Warden, Sarah Money. By this evening,...

Rothes had another uneventful week - I've entered her data, but the satellite didn't catch her leaving Ilha de Unhocomozinho, though she has been moving about on the island. I wonder if many ospreys have already left from that area to start their...

On World Wetlands Day we featured some of East Africa's most important (and threatened) wetlands. You can listen, here , to the voice of Fahad Mohamed Musa - the captain of a dhow sailing out of the of island of Lamu in the delta of the Tana River...

We secretly hoped it would and now Big Garden Birdwatch has obliged by exceeding all our previous expectations, with initial participation numbers going through the roof! Hooray! Less than a week after the nation spent an hour counting the birds in their...

This morning - grey, sleety and cold - I heard my first song thrush of the year as I drove to work. What a way to start the day. If I'd had time, I would have stopped to listen... it's one of my favourite bird songs. Yesterday I heard a wisp of...

It feels like winter, but spring can’t be far away. Great tits have been singing for weeks – even through the big freeze - and I’m hearing thrushes singing more and more often. In just six weeks time I’ll be looking out for the...

I received an urgent phone call in the week from some good friends with a plea for help - their beloved pond had sprung a leak, half the water had gone (right), and what should they do? Now this time of year isn't the best from a wildlife point of...

(courtesy of The Carpenters, Close to you - cant stop singing it now!) Well bit of a busy week - last weekend was The Big Garden Birdwatch. Why is it that birds that come into the garden every day of the week, suddenly disappear when you need to count...

We've had our fair share of 'unusual' sighting on the reserve this winter - jay, nuthatch, water rail, jack snipe, but we have also been lucky enough to be visited at out feeding station by a beautiful, charismatic little singer, the yellowhammer...