You'll be pleased to hear that the bench replacement work has begun! Last Thursday, after our weekly bittern listen (more on that later) we loaded up the truck and trailer and headed off to Joist Fen viewpoint. Surprisingly, for this time of year...

My first few weeks at Arne have been entertaining with no shortage of exciting wildlife to be seen. I’ll never get tired of hearing the amazing wildlife experiences of visitors to Arne and have been lucky enough to have a few myself, some when you...

An unusual weekend on the island of Papay - home to our North Hill reserve - marked 200 years since one of the last great auks in the UK was killed there. The great auk was a large flightless bird that spent most of its life at sea and was hunted to extinction...

... three very lovely (well, the parents think so anyway) babies. Weight and sex unknown. We have been watching this particular pair of shags for well over a month now, ever since we spotted them building a nest and mating. Three eggs then appeared...

Up until relatively recently there was only one kind of gull to me...a seagull, the kind that stole my chips on the beach. Most grey coloured sea birds also fell into the ‘seagull’ category. How wrong I was. When I started working for...