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Photo taken at Blacktoft Sands May 11th 2013 Lone Male hunting in breezy conditions Taken from the First Hide

Photo taken at Blacktoft Sands May 11th 2013 Lone Male hunting in breezy conditions Taken from the First Hide

23 December 2012: From Townend Hide. One of about 8 Marsh Harriers I saw coming into the roost this evening

A nice shot of our konik ponies exploring the area directly in front of the reception by the bushes with a ship sailing through the reeds and note the young marsh harrier on its favourite bush in the background.

Thought I'd crop in on this a bit so that you can see the birds a bit better

This bird gave close views as it returned to its perch near Singleton Hide.

A little update this evening of some of the action about Blacktoft Sands today - starting with hen harriers and finishing with barn owls. OK - The hen harriers have been showing off and on throughout much of the day down at singleton - with both the male and a ring-tail making an appearance. The...

Listen out for the magical sound of whistling ducks of teal and the 'pjiew pjiew' of wigeons as you go around the reserve at this time of year. Numbers of ducks have increased quickly since we melted on Tuesday with tufted duck, pochard, gadwall and shelduck present along with the teal and wigeon...

After much of this week being stuck in the office due to the weather, I went down this afternoon for a look at the reserve. Apart from being completely covered in snow including the car park - there was lots of action from some of our wildlife. Here are some of the highlights: Roe Deer - seen all...

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 these first few days of 2012. Other highlights...

This evening roost started with them coming in ones and twos then finished with 38 MARSH HARRIERS in the air at once around 4pm. 2 RING-TAIL HEN HARRIERS were also flying around at that time. Added to that white-fronted geese flying around, thousands of golden plover, a merlin and a barn owl. Here...

Strangely at the moment there are'nt many ducks on site but given a bit of patience and good timing there is an amazing range of quality birds to be seen instead. In regards to the ducks it seems that the major tidal flooding of last month has produced excellent feeding conditions elsewhere on the...

Today saw the first of our two festive roost events - so this is what happened. A minimum of 14 marsh harriers into roost - these were still flying around at end of event (4pm) so number may be more. Two ring-tail hen harriers joining the fly around with the marsh harriers. Thousands and...

15 marsh harriers came into roost this evening with 7000 golden plover behind them. The hen harrier was once again present at roost time along with a merlin. Also today there were 3 spotted redshank up at Ousefleet, a chiffchaff by the feeders and a cettis warbler around singleton. We have now managed...

A very calm sunny day at the sands ended with great excitment as peregrine chases thousands of golden plover during arrival of marsh harriers to roost. The rest of the day had a very calm atmosphere The shelducks were swimming on marshland. Our four konik ponies were calmly eating the grass...

male marsh harrier returning to the nest photo was takenfrom first hide

Taken at Singleton Hide, This Marsh Harrier perched in the hedgerow just to the right of the hide.

Taken from Singleton Hide - this Male Marsh Harrier put on a bit of a display.