Springtime has arrived on the reserve with the arrival of the early summer migrants. The first warblers were a chiffchaff (16 th .), blackcap (19th.) and willow warbler (26 th .). In the last week of the month there were large numbers of sand martin flying...

Hi and welcome to everyone who's been looking at this blog page and wondering what the 'eck it's all about. I have recently been seconded to Middleton Lakes from the Sandwell Valley reserve and one of my roles is to let people know what's...

Ted Hughes wrote "they've made it again, which shows the globe's still working" to descibe the wonder of the return of migrant birds. OK, he was referring specifically to swifts, but I reckon we could say the same about any of our migrants...

Fencing in progress, 14th March 2011 Setting out along the estuary road for our daily constitutional down the lonning onto the Reserve, we reached the corner where the wide vista of the outer Solway opens up. It was one of those rare Spring days, with...

A pallid swift was seen over the Long Pits (just off the reserve) on Tuesday and was spotted again for a few minutes yesterday morning over the ARC site. Sadly, no sightings since. Other highlights yesterday were provided by two spoonbills flying over...