Your recent sightings at Point of Ayr
Your recent sightings
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Reserve round-up: week commencing 28 May
Recent sightings The week started well with a cattle egret making friends with the newly-arrived cows in the field adjacent to the reserve near Bunker Screen. This herd will graze the wet grassland areas of the reserve once the breeding season is...
Posted 02 Jun 2018 by Dan Trotman -
Easter Chorus at Burton Mere Wetlands
Sunday hide guide volunteer, Tom, brings us a guest blog capturing the current feel of the reserve as we sailed past the spring equinox yet struggle to break the shackles winter. Since the sun rose over the north pole ice as it traversed the...
Posted 26 Mar 2018 by Dan Trotman -
Warden's Update - Wildlife Garden
If you’ve been to the reserve recently, you may have noticed a bit of building work ongoing. This is to convert one of the buildings into our new office, and create some residential volunteering accommodation in the house by the car park. Behind...
Posted 12 Jul 2017 by Alasdair Grubb -
Sightings round-up: early signs of autumn
Sitting here writing in the pouring rain, it's not just some of the birds that are beginning to give the impression of autumn. After the glorious heatwave which took us up to the solstice, we've had almost a week's worth of showers and again some...
Posted 27 Jun 2017 by Dan Trotman -
Warden's wanderings: welcome back, summer!
Assistant Warden John fills us in on his recent work and wildlife highlights: The past two or three weeks have thrown some strange, unseasonable weather at us. A cool, windy start to the month left us asking "where has the summer gone?"; Burton Me...
Posted 24 Jun 2017 by Dan Trotman -
Weekly round-up; harassment of harriers and high tide prelude
As I write this with wind and rain pounding at the window it’s a stark reminder that despite the relatively settled Christmas and New Year weather, we’re a long way from the end of winter yet. However, that’s no bad thing given that this season...
Posted 12 Jan 2017 by Dan Trotman
