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Got back from holiday last week and had a fantastic surprise waiting for me at the reserve. No it wasn’t an unusual wildlife sighting, or a five pound note at the back of my desk. What gave me a warm glow were the comments left over half term by some of our younger visitors. The new blackboards...

On Sunday a celebration of the Coastal Change Project to thank our funders turned out to be amazing day for all. The two characters that sum it up are not characters of the alphabet like O and K (OK) or B and I (the shorthand code for bittern) but the unique characters of Titchwell Marsh and Chris Packham...

Wow! Nipped out at lunch to take a few photos of some work we have just done on the sea banks and had an unexpected ‘Titchwell moment’. In fact I think it is my best ‘Titchwell moment’ to date. Swallows are using the walk way to Parrinder hide as a sheltered feeding area and...

You either love it or you hate it. Thankfully the majority love it and the Royal Institute of British Architects agree, having just awarded the new Parrinder hide at Titchwell one of its eight awards in the East. As you can imagine all the team here are pretty excited. We are used to punching the...

Why not make the most of the nice weather and join us for our Optics Demonstration this week.

If you haven't decided what to spend it on, why don't you come and see us in a couple of weeks. Whether you are looking for a spare pair of binoculars for the car, to upgrade your current telescope or find out more about the art of digiscoping, we will have binocular experts from the RSPB...

We managed to get all the last few cleaning jobs done in the Parrinder Hide this afternoon and were able to get the security fencing down to allow a few people into the hides before dusk. THE VIEWS ARE AMAZING!!! Helped by an amazing winter light, there was a large gull roost including at least one...

From this... On Saturday 18 September the new Parrinder hides will open and we can't wait to show you what we have done with the place. The new hides have been a long time coming and I don't mind admitting I've had a few sleepless nights. It has taken a few years and a lot of work from...

Well it's day 204 of the coastal change project and we are starting to see the hides take shape. The walls are coming up and the north hide has a roof. Despite the good progress we have lost some time due to the weather but hopefully everyone will feel it was worth the wait. The views from the hide...

Another view of the new sea wall, from further towards the Beach. 16th September 2009.

This shows the construction of the new Parrinder sea wall, looking east from the Beach Path on 16th September 2009, at around 130mm telephoto. Clearly, the Parrinder hide has gone, and there's no access off the Beach Path. The Path itself is perfectly safe and free from construction traffic, and...

This is a special geogrid material that is being used to increase the integrity of the new sea wall.

You can see the metal post that the rig is driving into the ground. This is going into a depth of 8-10m.

This is a band drain. It will allow ground water to flow into the carr stone and out into the lagoons. This will prevent the new sea wall collapsing! A pretty important straw.

This is the foundations for the new sea wall along the Parrinder line. The red coloured rocks on the right are Carr-stone from Snettisham quarry. These are being used to give a firm base for the increased width of the new sea defence. The new wall is using special engineering techniques to minimise this...

This is the foundations of carr-stone being laid on the new sea wall. This view is one not seen by visitors to the reserve as it is looking west from the east end of the wall.

You won't find these on the beach. These were found in the Parrinder line and are some of 70 metal objects found during investigations prior to excavation work.