With only a few days left before the live shows start, the production village is now complete and the producers and presenters arrived yesterday. Last night, a 'welcome to the community' event was hosted in the mess tent at the production village...

How time flies! In less than a fortnight the BBC Springwatch series will again be broadcast from Ynys-hir . So how have we been preparing? Sprucing up In a local farmers field the production village is slowly forming, with caravans, trucks and cars...

The weather since I last posted a blog has deteriorated somewhat; from balmy March days to rather changeable conditions, though there is now a hint of warmth in the sun. Migrants have appeared in some numbers with willow warblers singing from every patch...

Astonishingly warm weather for March here at Ynys-hir. The winds have been ideal for migration with a trickle of migrants arriving daily. First here, as always, were sand martins, closely followed by wheatear and chiffchaff. Yesterday, the first blackcaps...

Now the clocks have changed the dark, gloomy late afternoons and evenings of winter are upon us. Wader numbers on the lowland wet grassland are increasing with over 1400 golden plover and 1500 lapwing daily with smaller numbers of curlew and redshank...

A very high tide this morning and waders were pushed up the estuary from their usual high-tide roosts further downstream. At the Breakwater hide a steady stream of oystercatchers and curlew flew past with smaller numbers of dunlin, redshank, bar-tailed...