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Excitement is mounting as the first live broadcast is due from the reserve next Monday evening. The BBC Production Village, on a neighbouring farm, has been completed and all the cables, cameras and associated technical equipment have been set up. Our tractor shed, cleared of reserve equipment, has been...

The Springwatch series is now over and the reserve will slowly get back to normal. The production village is full of vans and vehicles; equipment is packed away and our overflow car-park is full of lorries waiting to take away portacabins, tents and production vehicles. The live studio will be transformed...

The last day of the Springwatch series has finally come and some of the stars of the show have timed things to perfection. I was watching the web cams at lunch time and lo and behold, despite my low expectations, one of the common sandpiper chicks hatched! Over the afternoon more hatched and as I...

What a traumatic few days it’s been. As you’re all probably aware, mid-Wales suffered a storm of almost biblical proportions at the end of last week with 5 inches of rain falling in just 36 hours. The damage to local villages was horrendous with many properties evacuated and millions of pounds...

Despite the fact it's June, there seems to be little let up in the wet and wild weather we've been having over the last week with Ynys-hir looking particularly atmospheric on last night's show. The weather has already taken its toll on some of our Springwatch favourites, with six of the ten...

It's been a bit of an emotional rollercoaster on Springwatch this week. A high note was the fledging of the remaining blue tit chicks on the Springwatch mini cams yesterday. If I'm honest, I was starting to get a bit worried for them, especially as the weather has felt more like autumn than spring...

In true British bank holiday style, the weather has turned poor here again, with rain yesterday and more rain forecast for the rest of the week. Early nesters, like most of the blue and great tits on the reserve, have fledged their young, but it'll still be difficult for the adults to find enough...

Well, what a springwatch week it was! Superb photography ranging from underwater filming of pike, close ups of insect life and moles underground. Badgers and foxes, pine martens and boxing male and female hares (as well as jumping mice in the mammal stump). The mini cameras on site have shown a great...

There's been some incredible wildlife footage on Springwatch this week. The nest cams have brought us all the action from inside blue tit and chaffinch nests, we've seen the first ever footage of moles underground and last night Springwatch cameraman Lindsay managed to capture some brilliant...

Two of our barn owl family that featured on SpringWatch shortly after they fledged.

One of the many fledglings on the reserve at the moment found a convenient perch on the lighting equipment in the Springwatch studio!

Confirmation from us at Ynys-hir also including a sneak preview video! http://www.rspb.org.uk/community/groups/ynys-hir/blog/archive/2011/05/06/springwatch.aspx We are very excited to get a glimpse of the secret lives of some of our wildlife from nestbox cameras etc. and to share this wonderful...