As I walked along Station Road to do the penultimate winter bird count at Exminster Marshes today, I listened to the explosive song of the Cettis warbler and the simple but proud call of the reed bunting, both enjoying the warm weather. If we threw our...

Conservation is often a very long process where you may not see the results for years. Renovating the hedges on the Powderham Reserve is one of these. Last year we laid about one quarter of the hedges and this year we completed a bit more. As the hedges...

It might be freezing cold on Exminster Marshes in February and you'd be forgiven for thinking it is not cold enough to build an igloo but you'd be wrong. There may be no ice but there is an abundance of willow and last week Gemma, David, Steve...

This was a job that has been on the to do list for over a year and finally we've done it. We have generated a lot of brash over the past year or so and it's been building up and up but the other week we actually got around to burning it. We had...

Ready for the growing season we are now making plans for the arrival of the grazing animals working with the local farmers to ensure that the plans work for them as much as they work for us. After we have undertaken a lot of management work to knock back...