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Well, this is fun. I'm in the process of moving house to be closer to work. (Until now it was over and hour's commute, each way. And a big petrol bill / carbon footprint). I've moved out of my old place but have a two week wait before I can move into my new one. So in the meantime I am staying...

You wait ages, then everything turns up all at once! Well, what a weekend. All those northerly winds we've been having (and that have made everything so cold) swung round for the weekend. Strong winds from the south really did bring in all the migratory birds. In the last three days we have had...

Yes, OK. Looking out of the window with yet more snowflakes floating down, you might be forgiven for thinking that Thursday's hailing of spring was a bit premature. But on Friday we had another sign that things are indeed changing. Over by the East Hide a wheatear was spotted. Slightly earlier...

Recent Highlights Black-tailed godwits - 1500 - they put on a fantastic display, wheeling and swirling in unison above the reedbed this today. House martins and sand martins - the clear weather and wind brought a few hundred house martins and 50+ sand martins through the reserve on Tuesday Wheatear...

The warmer weather we have had since last weekend has sent some of our winter visitors back north for the breeding season, but it has also brought some of our summer visitors up from as far south as Africa! Our numbers of black-bellied brent geese are slowly depleting as they head back to the Siberian...

1st Wheatear of 2012, at mouth of the river on 16th March

wheatear on the banks of the Whitham