The RSPB Big Garden Birdwatch is back for it's 39th year this weekend. The largest citizen science study in the UK, it is a chance to spend an hour of your weekend watching the birds in the garden and enjoying a bit of relaxation whilst doing so. It also helps us gather important information about the fluctuations in the number of our bird species. Find out more about the Big Garden Birdwatch here. Want to know more about our 'common' birds, their song and how to identify them? Join us on Sunday 28th January for a walk around the reserve with a knowledgeable guide who will give you all the help you need on how to tell apart a wren from a sparrow! For more information click here and book by calling 01797 320588.
Great tit and blue tit on feeder - Chris Gomersall
As well as our resident birds on the reserve we have a few more unusual visitors here at the moment. Both male and female smew are on the reserve, we have a slavonian grebe, goosander, goldeneye and a black-throated diver around as well. A glaucous gull has been seen most evenings, roosting on the islands on Burrowes Pit amongst the greater-black backed and the herring gulls.
Black-throated diver - Graham Parry