The year has flown by and we've reached another Christmas; we're open for the majority of the festive season, with just a couple of days off and a couple of early closes. See the details in the image below.

Work on our new cafe has finished until the New Year, with the concrete poured this week for the base on which the modular building will sit. There are four days early in the new year when the reserve will be fully closed for the final stages of preparing the site for the delivery of the building, and for the delivery itself. These dates are Thursday 5 January, Friday 6 January, Monday 9 January and Tuesday 10 January.

Following this, there will still be another six weeks of work on interior installations and connection of services, but disruption to visitors should be minimal compared to at times over the past two months. As we've said before, your continued support and understanding during this challenging but exciting project is hugely appreciated.

To all our visitors and followers from near and far, a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year from the team at the RSPB Dee Estuary reserve.