Work is underway on this season's work to restore the heathland, previously lost to conifer plantations since the 1950s. We're removing planted Scots Pines to open up areas where heathland has previously been. Over the next few years this will...

There are lots of fantastic Dragonflies in the reserve at the moment, both around the Decoy Pond and patrolling up and down the rides. Here are a couple of photos that I took recently with a simple point and press camera. You just have to be patient,...

In Sepetmber 2010 we cleared a large area of dense, impenetrable young conifer on the eastern side of the reserve. Less than 2 years later there is a thick carpet of heather shoot, all in flower. All of this heather has come from seed which had...

We've just finished the July check of our Dormouse nestboxes and were delighted to find 21 animals all seeming to be in good health. The highlight was discovering 2 males and a female in the same box. Not necessarily a happy home because the males...

Big thank you to everyone from Responsible Travel and the AONB Unit who came to Broadwater today to help us remove old rabbit fencing in order to clear the way for this autumn's heathland restoration work. Much laughter and lots of fun along with...