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The fabulous great white egret has been putting in regular appearances at Griesdale hide. It tends to roost with the little egrets at Island Mere (tree in the middle of the Public/Lower hide pools), so if you are around at dusk, watch for them coming in. They look like hankies in the trees when they...

Every season there is something different and special to be seen here. For me spring brings the avocets , summer means marsh harriers and butterflies, autumn is your chance to see elusive bearded tits and rutting red deer stags and winter often means the bitterns and water rails are out on the ice. This...

Well, a lot of water has been dumped on the reserve this week, but it hasn't affected the wildlife. Our otters have been out and about almost daily, particularly at Griesdale and Lower hides, but cropping up all over the reserve including Lilian's hide. They've been seen at all times of the...

The RSPB call them 'moments', an experience of witnessing a wildlife spectacle that as a result leaves you in awe. Admittedly I have had a fair few of these amazing experiences, but on Monday 27th August 2012 I was the fortunate recipient of another, and wow was it special. A morning stroll...

By mid July most chicks have fledged. This year has been the first time that a pair of Cetti’s warblers have bred on the reserve. Inexperienced fledglings are vulnerable to predators, hunger and the weather but for the first week or two broods stay close together and parent birds continue to feed...

There's a spoonbill back on the scene down at the shore hides. It has been seen several times over the last few days and was reported still there today, 8 June. Also down at the shore pools there have been regular sightings of little egrets, grey herons, black-tailed godwits and not forgetting the...

Three otters were seen today at the Public hide at 9.40 am, on top of the two seen here and the group of three at the Lower hide yesterday. A Cetti's warbler was seen and heard at the top of the Causeway and near the Public hide both today and yesterday too. In the drier sunnier spells over the...

There have been lots of fantastic sightings today and one very exciting one for me! At the Lilian's hide we had a Mediterranean gull and potentially three marsh harriers - an adult female, a juvenile and possibly a male. Lots of interesting ducks at the Tim Jackson hide: teal, gadwall, shovellers...

If you have been to the reserve over the last week or so you will probably have heard the red deer stags's roars echoing around. This is part of the 'rut', when the males collect a harem of hinds together. The stags roar at each other as a way of challenging one another and you may see them...