We are open today from 10 to 5. Coffee shop open for soup and drinks. We are however experiencing power cuts... Still plenty of bird food in the shop. Car park is cleared, but paths and trails are still covered in snow, it's thawing fairly quickly...

We've had quite a contrast here over the last couple of weeks. During the week before last, with the reserve completely covered in several inches of snow, almost all of the bird activity was confined to the feeder stations. Constant visits by Greenfinches...

The icy chill and snowfall of the last 48 hours has seen most of the pools on the reserve freeze over and a white blanket cover the ground. Not ideal conditions but great for seeing birds. Yesterdays highlights include the return of a previous winter...

It's been a couple of weeks of phone calls, emails, excited conversations and nervous anticipation, but yesterday it all came together when Chris Packham and the BBC Autumnwatch crew spent the day filming at Loch Leven! We've long known...

Hundreds of teal and wigeon dropped into our new flood this morning. First time since the large habitat project that we had this many birds right in front of the hide. The hide is now much closer to the water, so I managed to take this picture with just...