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I don’t know if it the change in the weather over the last few days but there seems to have been an increase in the number of birds of prey around the site. Most of the species are arriving to spend the winter and have probably been following the migrating flocks of passerines that are on the move...

T he floating excavator has been doing its worse over the last couple of weeks. Now that the reed has been cut, the main job of removing it can start. Reed can be a very invasive plant species if the growth is left un-checked and unfortunately that is what has happened on the fresh marsh. The reed has...

After a long wait, Year 2 of the Coastal Project started in earnest today. The floating excavator rumbled into life this morning and headed out through the reedbed onto the fresh marsh. I must admit, it was a slightly surreal sight sat in the hide watching a 30 tonne machine crossing the lagoon and...

What is the beast appearing out of the reedbed? Well it's the first weapon of choice in our battle against the reed encroachment on the fresh marsh. As part of this years coastal change project we are improving the habitat on the fresh marsh. To do this we are employing some very specialist...

It was definately one of those colder spring mornings today, but the birds were going to be cool! With a strong north-easterly breeze and temperatures not much above eight degrees it felt more like a spring day in northern Scotland. Thankfully the birds also turned out to be more like those of a northern...

Well the sun is truely shining upon us. The weather is so good in fact that the contractors have been complaining that it's a bit dusty! Work on the project is firing on all cylinders in fact if you tot up the machinery on site it would probably shock you how many cylinders. The main job is focusing...

"Why are the water levels so low?" "Why are the water levels so high?" These are questions you always get asked when working on a wetland. Currently the water levels on the fresh marsh are low. Why? We have target water levels for each month/season, in each area of the reserve...