From John Took a quick afternoon walk down to the hide. Good numbers of Shoveller showing and a few Pintails - Wigeon are still hanging about. Loads of Teal. Dave showed up at the hide and amazingly spotted a male Wheatear in a distant ploughed...

Calm Spring-like day with very little wind. Plenty of feeding activity here in the garden; Chaffinches, Goldfinches, Tree and House Sparrows, Green Finches and Great, Blue and Coal Tits. The Meadow Pippit seems to have taken up residence on the marsh...

The morning dawned perfect... wall to wall sunshine - no wind! We don't often get this sort of weather on the Solway. We decided to walk down the lonning to the the flooded meadows at the end, taking the digiscope, tripod and all with us - but got...

Beautiful sunshine this morning. We set out to see what was happening on the farm. Found the first action by the Natterjack Pools on the marsh front. Stephen can be seen here with the tractor setting up poles and wire to protect the pools from the...

Day dawned a bit unpromising - high pressure gloom over us and a cold north easterly. It must be that erupting volcano in Iceland causing it all - it has covered my car in pumice powder already! On arrival at the farm things started to look up though...