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Hi everyone! After a long wait, the Newport Wetlands blog is back. Jenna and I will be keeping you updated with reserve news and recent sightings. There’s been a lot of raptor activity recently, with a sparrowhawk , a kestrel , and a green-tagged marsh harrier being spotted regularly over the...

As the acres of dense green reeds now start to give way to their golden brown of winter it becomes easier to see the numerous birds who call Newport Wetlands home. And now the lull of August and early September have slipped away, there’s plenty of wildlife on the reserve to get excited about...

High winds and plenty of rain means autumn is well and truly here – so much for an Indian summer! But despite the drab weather, there’s still plenty of colour to see up on the reserve if you look close enough. There have been plenty of sightings of wheatear in the past couple of weeks...

It might be a depressing thought, but autumn is already underway for some of our migrants. Waders such as black-tailed godwits and bar-tailed godwits have been seen in large numbers at Newport Wetlands over the last few days as the stop off on their migration south to Africa from their northern breeding...