It’s that time of the year again: the season of new arrivals! Migrants have come back from their winter holidays in Africa and southern Europe and, the breeding season being well underway, chicks have started to appear at the reserve! The reserve...

It’s now been a month since this blog was last updated, but what a month! Here are a few snapshots of what happened at the reserve for the last 30 days or so. A load of rubbish: The Song of the Paddle canoe club did an amazing job collecting...

Every season has its perks but spring is without a doubt my favourite. There’s just so much happening, especially in a wildlife haven like Lochwinnoch! Every day brings something new: flowers that weren’t there the previous day; insects you...

Actually, this may not be news if you're following our Facebook page or if you've happened to pop down to the reserve in the last month or so. Our male smew has become sort of a local attraction, some would even say star. Since the end of January...

So, we haven't quite made the 120 species we were looking for, we did get one more though to make us up to 118 in total (woodcock was the 118 species.) But, I still think 118 is a good number for this year and hope we can do even better in 2012! We...