How have marsh harriers, scarce in the 1970s, bounced back over the last 50 years?
![Marsh harrier - Les Bunyan (rspb-images.com)](/cfs-file/__key/communityserver-blogs-components-weblogfiles/00-00-05-27-10/4442.0820.1882.1385.2116546.jpg)
One of our supporters, Judith McDonald, kindly posted us some old issues of Bird Life, the quarterly magazine for the RSPB’s junior branch from 1965 to 2000.
I was fascinated to find an article on marsh harriers by Minsmere’s pioneering warden Bert Axell in the October – December 1971 edition.
![Copies of Bird Life magazine - Jamie Wyver](/cfs-file/__key/communityserver-blogs-components-weblogfiles/00-00-05-27-10/7266.4278.5775.6545.BirdLifemagazines.jpg)
Bert wrote: “Of the three…