This little creature was the main attraction yesterday. This water vole made its first appearance mid morning when it was spotted swimming along the ditch in front of reception and then it went through a burrow in the side of the ditch and made...

Winter is a wonderful time to visit Blacktoft, with the sun shing over the reeds at winter, with the winter ducks in spectacular colours on the lagoons, with all those winter thrushes around and then finishing off with the winter bird of prey roost. ...

I must have watched the female bittern flight in many times over the last ten years to feed her chicks but yet every time, just as I did yesterday I still want to get up and shout yahoo! Its just one of those sights that I will never never get tired of...

The spectacular harrier roost continues into 2012 with the male hen harrier joining the two ring-tail hen harriers (pictured above) at roost time between 2:30pm and 4:15pm. These three hen harriers have been flying around with up to 24 marsh harriers...

Just for those who were wondering about the Merlin photo I've inserted it into my last blog (stupid blog won't let me insert it into this). Many thanks to Tim and Si Jump for having the patience to resend the photo....... Sorry blue tits but...