Blogger: Aggie Rothon, Communications Officer

We got desperate the other night. We were having one of those 'after dinner pudding cravings' which saw us rooting to the back of the cupboard where we had stashed the Easter eggs ready for the weekend. Paul's egg was in fact a giant white chocolate Easter bunny. The bunny now no longer has ears or a face. We felt bad, momentarily, for the demise of poor Peter but, hey, it…

We are putting out a final call in the East for applications for this year's Nature of Farming Award. The competition aims…

Blogger: Aggie Rothon, Communications Officer

Photo Credit: Dunnock by John Bridges (rspb-images.com)

I don't know what it was that reminded me. Perhaps it was visiting Gunton park, my childhood home, or the eerie sight of a field of ewes stopping to stare at me mid-chew as I ambled past their field; they were absolutely resolute and motionless. Or it could have been catching a programme about the cuckoos at Wicken…

Blogger: Adam Murray, Communications Officer

Visitors to the RSPB's Titchwell Marsh Reserve are currently being treated to the annual spring spectacular sky-dancing routines performed by one of the UK rarest breeding birds. Marsh Harriers are a true conservation success story. Once extinct as a breeding bird in England due to habitat loss and persecution, they have made a spectacular comeback. Although they are still…

Blogger: Annie Sadler, Volunteering Development Officer

As the world starts to become green again, the birds are singing and insects buzzing, Flatford Wildlife Garden is taking shape.

The RSPB is bringing this old garden back to life. One third of an acre, on the River Stour near Flatford Mill in the Dedham Vale Area of Natural Beauty, landscapers are under-way, working hard on the state of the art design, all for…

We're on the look out for stories and we're wondering whether anyone out there will be able to help us! We're looking for two things...

1)Wildlife mysteries - Has anyone reported something strange going on in their garden, any late night invaders that are ransacking through the vegetable patches or perhaps any reports of an animal that's moved in to the home but the owners have no idea what it is? …

Blogger: Rachael Murray, Media Assistant

It's that time of year when many great volunteers in the Eastern Region get their boots on and stomp around farmer's fields, absorbing the glorious sunrises whilst surveying the farmland birds.

The RSPB's Volunteer and Farmer Alliance Project (V&FA) has been running for twelve years in the region. The scheme aims to help reverse the decline of farmland bird populations…

Blogger: Gena Correale-Wardle, Community Fundraising Officer

This morning I was ready a little earlier than usual so decided I would take a longer walk to work along the river Wensum via Cow Tower. This is one of my favourite walks in the city, you step off the busy pavement at Whitefriars Bridge and are soon surrounded by an ocean of calm along the small footpath.

Shafts of sunlight (if you're lucky!) shine through…

Blogger: Adam Murray, Communications Officer

I don't know about you, but there is something rather special about how the woodland floor shakes off its drab brown winter coat at this time of year. Emerging at speed is a splendid green cape of foliage hugging the trees and, like watching your favourite movie again and again, you know that the best is still to come. You may be going for your normal dog walk or weekend ramble…

Blogger: Aggie Rothon, Communications Officer

The most recent acquisition to our household has been a shiny black Labrador called Rose. She moults massively, rolls in fox musk, digs underneath the compost bin and eats cow poo but is one of the most courteous and patient beasts I have ever come across. She is also continually positive. A motivational guru dressed with a thick tail, stocky frame and triangular ears cut…

Blogger: Adam Murray, Communications Officer

After this morning's story of the stone curlew with mothering instincts for a creme egg  it became clear that with a little digging that this would not have happened because the aforementioned eggs are not found in the same habitat. However, the egg in question was recovered and has now been cared for by the RSPB's Communication Team. Unfortunately due to its delicious…

Blogger: Murray Brown, RSPB Volunteer Project Coordinator

Swallows have arrived in the park and are busy feeding over the lake with the occasional house martin.  'Our' swallows winter as far away as South Africa and yet all of a sudden here they are...amazing isn't it?  The males look particularly elegant as they sport much longer tail streamers.  Strangely no sand martins have been recorded as yet but we've…

Blogger: Rachael Murray, Media Assistant

A local resident in Suffolk had an early Easter surprise this week after discovering a rather unusual egg in her back garden.  Avril Sciocco, from Sudbury, was taking advantage of the sunny spring weather to hang out her washing, when she spotted a glinting article coming from her former vegetable patch, now the stony bottom of the garden. 

Avril describes: "I wanted to make sure…