Campfield Marsh

Osprey

Submitted by Dave Blackledge.

RSPB Campfield Marsh has benefitted from two main sources of grant aid recently, and works are in progress to improve wetland areas across the peat bog, farmland and saltmarsh to benefit breeding and migrating wading birds along with a host of other wetland dwellers such as dragonflies and peat bog plants.

Last year a partnership led by Yorkshire Wildlife Trust and including RSPB, Cumbria…

On Saturday 18th May, an Osprey landed on the saltmarsh with a large Salmon/ Sea Trout it had just caught and spent some time devouring it. It had a blue ring on its left leg. Photograph taken at 3.04pm from Biglands layby.

The wet birch woods on the reserve are fascinating places, with their mounds of beautiful deep green moss and trees, alive and dead, at all kinds of rakish angles.

There are hidden pools to trap the unwary, and some interesting plants and fungi. In one such wood, Neil and I looked and listened for willow tits as part of the Thursday Vols task for the day. We didn’t find any willow tits but we did find something very…

Another Blog from Marjorie - This one gives you an idea of how you can help on the Reserve.It's not just birds and moths that keep the gates open there are many other things we need to do and you could be part of it!

When part of the wall at the entrance to the reserve collapsed,two members of the volunteer work party came to the rescue. Making good use of skills acquired in a previous life Neil G. and Laurence assessed…

A very warm welcome to John Hutchinson, our new Estate Worker.

John joined the RSPB team here at Campfield on18th February and as you can see from the photo he was already getting down to preserving the pristine look of the Reserve.

Here's wishing him a long and happy association with the Reserve.

Another day, another pond

 The pond by the hide was the second pond to be tackled this year by the Campfield Thursday volunteers. Brambles and grass had grown up in front of the pond and trees around it were shading it and shedding leaves into the water

nearly done

It was a cold day, but bright and sunny. Because of the frosty weather of the previous days, the ducks and waders had already left the big field in front…

The first storm of the year, Storm Erik, coincided with the high tide here on Campfield Marsh at 2.15pm. A Met. Office Yellow wind warning forecast a SW gale with winds up to 70mph in the Irish Sea.

As the tide was making, huge waves came rolling in across the Solway Estuary. Skeins of Barnacle geese, already flooded off their Inner Estuary roosts, came streaming by on their way to the saltmarshes of the Outer Estuary…