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It's my last working day before Christmas, so a good time to have a quick look back on another exciting year at The Lodge reserve.The biggest wildlife surprise was when a pair of ravens started to nest build early in the New Year and successfully raised three young. We are still seeing them on a...

Visitors come from many parts of the UK to see The Lodge, but not normally for a day visit from Scotland! Yesterday, RSPB members Violet and Nicky caught the plane from Edingburgh to Luton, hired a car to drive to Sandy and spent the day enjoying the reserve- and the lovely sunshine- for Violet's...

The weather is set fair for our 'All Nature Bio Blitz Day' tomorrow, it sounds like it will be sunny, warm and dry...a rare thing this summer! We've got experts from various fields coming along to show us what's around on the reserve, last year The Lodge was the third highest species...

Despite the weather not being kind to us so far this season, the wildlife is carrying on with summer regardless! Our nesting spotted flycatchers have young chicks and are seen regularly near the Gatehouse bringing in tasty insects for the young birds. The insects have also decided it is summer! The...

With all the fun of the Spring Fair now over, my binoculars are back in hand and I've even managed a couple of walks out on the reserve this week. Summer really began yesterday and the reserve looked glorious with trees and flowers in full bloom and the whole place looked radiant in the warm sunshine...

Another day of blue skies, hot sunshine and lots of visitors.....just perfect! We have been watching a splendid male wheatear from the Easter bunny watch point on Sandy Ridge this afternoon.It must have arrived overnight as we didn't see him yesterday. It's a remarkable thought that it's...

It's been even more of a pleasure than usual to be working here over the Easter break. Families have been heading off and having fun doing both the Easter hunt and bunny trails and watching the rabbits and wildlife on Sandy heath ( although the hot weather has kept the rabbits below ground for most...

You can tell Autumn is in the air when you come across a large mixed flock of birds in the woodland - that's what happened today on my walk around.At first a seemingly never ending amount of blue, great and long tailed tits and the odd coal tit streamed through the trees near the hide,a couple of...