Your recent sightings at Minsmere
Your recent sightings
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Notes from a Suffolk garden
Guest blog by Linda Hammond, Minsmere volunteer Ours is a small garden with a (disproportionally) large pond. Although there aren’t many trees in the immediate vicinity we have a long hedge along one side which is ‘home’ to a lovely gang of noisy...
Posted 08 Apr 2020 by Ian Barthorpe -
Lockdown birding: 50 and counting
In these unusual and difficult times where even most of the staff are unable to visit our wonderful nature reserves, many of us are, at least, still able to find nature around our local area. As you'll have seen from some our recent guest blogs, o...
Posted 08 Apr 2020 by Ian Barthorpe -
Bird song, water voles and the joys of home
Guest blog by Vicky Bolton, RSPB Minsmere Learning Assistant In January of this year I relocated to the rural town of Halesworth, only a stone's throw from my childhood home near Lowestoft. Being busy with two jobs, I barely spent any time in my n...
Posted 06 Apr 2020 by Ian Barthorpe -
Missing Minsmere
Guest blog by Phil Riley, Minsmere visitor centre volunteer Its Friday 3 April 2020, my alarm has just gone off on my phone to tell me time to go to Minsmere for duty on reception. Three weeks of social isolation and nearly two in lockdown has...
Posted 06 Apr 2020 by Ian Barthorpe -
Beeflies and birds of prey star in volunteers' gardens
As you may have read in yesterday's blog , our volunteers have been busy in their gardens, watching some of the amazing wildlife that we can find close to home. If there's one good thing to come from the current closure of our reserves, it's the...
Posted 04 Apr 2020 by Ian Barthorpe -
A volunteer's wildlife garden
Guest blog by Peter Phillips, RSPB Minsmere volunteer guide My garden abuts open fields at the back and is edged by a good variety of larger trees, although primarily oak and ash, and a mixture of well established deciduous and evergreen hedges. ...
Posted 03 Apr 2020 by Ian Barthorpe