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This month we received the fantastic news that we had been successful in receiving a sizable grant application to undertake wetland enhancement works at our Boyton and Hollesley reserves. This project is imaginatively titled the South Alde-Ore Estuary - Future for Coastal Wetlands Project. At Boyton...

Boyton, like most of our coastal wetland reserves has had more than its fair share of rain over the last two months. The breeding birds at Boyton have found it difficult it rear any young due to the cold and difficult weather. However, there has been some good news, the avocets returned to the flash...

Winter is the time of the year that Boyton is truly left to its avian inhabitants. With the onset of winter the farmer starts to take off this Hereford cattle and we start increasing the water levels on the fields. By pushing the water up it floods the fields and provides great wintering habitat for...

Taken on fence by car park at Boyton Marshes

Sadly, I have not had the time to write much about Boyton marshes of late but that doesn’t mean its not worth a visit. There are at least 12 pairs of avocets nesting on the summer flash with astonishing numbers of chicks around. It must be one of the best sites to see chicks anywhere...

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It’s easy to think of the RSPB as only being about birds but in fact our remit or interest goes far beyond just birds. The work of the RSPB touches on subjects as diverse as human influence on marine environments to campaigning about proposed cuts to environmental funding . Recently as part...

Had a great time trying to photograph these at Boyton Marshes on 21/8/10

As the season draws to a close and the summer months give way to autumn migration. Now feels like the time to wrap up the season at Boyton marshes and give an update on the key species in the breeding season. Lapwings had a marvellous season with 20+ birds fledgling; these can be regularly seen commuting...

The nesting Avocets at Boyton marshes are doing well. Their where still a few chicks present on the site on the 30 th of June. An accurate count was hard to gauge but given that at least three pairs appeared to be territorially suggests that some chicks are still alive. One of the biggest dangers...

I had a spare half an hour after finishing on Havergate on Sunday, so went for a quick mooch around Boyton (Yep, mooch is a technical term). The summer is in full swing now and because I went just after a quick rain shower the reserve had that wonderful fresh feel that is highlight of British summers...

The key to the management of Boyton Marshes are the pedigree Hereford cattle that graze the marshes in the Summer to create ideal nesting conditions for the waders in the spring.

Welcome one and all to the Boyton Marshes group. Boyton is a small but perfectly formed wet grassland site on the serene Suffolk Coast. The reserve is situated in a fantastically scenic location where the Butley river meets the Alde/Ore Estuary. From the river walls you can look across the water to...