Hello and welcome to the latest blog. Here I will aim to give a quick round-up of the weeks' wildlife highlights, ahead of the weekend. Kingfishers have been showing particularly well across the reserve, with sightings most days from various places, notably the pools at New Fen (from the viewpoint shelter), Mere Hide and the Visitor Centre. Two Hobbies were also spotted hunting in the air above Mere Hide yesterday (10 August) and visitors also enjoyed watching a Common sandpiper feeding along the muddy edges. Now that the weather has warmed up, there will be plenty of dragonflies for them to catch. Common darter and Ruddy darter seem to be the most numerous, but Scarce chaser, Four-spotted chaser and Black-tailed skimmer should be about too. Talking of insects, the buddleia outside the Visitor Centre has been a butterfly magnet; attracting Red admiral, Peacock, Comma and Large white butterflies in good numbers, with a Small tortoiseshell joining them this morning (11 August). Photo credit: A Peacock butterfly feeding on Hemp-agrimony. Photo taken by David WhiteOn the Washland, we have a good idea of what's up there thanks to our regular counts from volunteer Paul. This morning (11 August) he had 4 Great white egret, 5 Little egret, 10 Teal, 30 Gadwall, 150 Mallard, 33 Mute swans and a Great crested grebe sailing past along the river. On Thursday afternoon, another of our volunteers, Lawrence, spotted a Common buzzard flying over the water and most days one of the three fledgling Marsh harriers from a nest near the Wilton Bridge can also be seen patrolling up and down the marshes around the river. On 9 August, 28 Lapwing and 3 Green sandpiper were also present on the Washland. One lucky visitor yesterday spotted a Bittern flying over the riverbank and onto the reserve- these are getting a little trickier to see now that the youngsters are finding their feet but as Bitterns are resident here year-round, there's always a chance of seeing one.Our young Common crane chick has also been seen by visitors most days with it's parents, in flight over the reserve- it is now a capable flyer, having been airborne for around a month. Our other resident pair, A2, are here too so if you see a pair of cranes flying around (rather than three) there's a high chance it's them. Whilst they don't have any chicks this year, they still consider Lakenheath Fen their summer home so we should still see them for at least another month or so, until the autumn gathering of the Fens population begins- this is usually near the Ouse Washes reserve.As you may have seen last night (10 August) we were the location for the BBC Look East weather forecast to be broadcast from. We were contacted late on Wednesday night by a BBC journalist asking if we wouldn't mind hosting the short show, and our Site Manager Dave Rogers stayed late to enable it to happen. If you missed it, or you don't live locally, you can watch the recording on iPlayer until 6:57pm this evening here - just skip to the last five minutes if you want to catch our bit! A Little grebe family at New Fen turned up for the presenter and the crew also saw a Marsh harrier fly past.With best wishes for a happy weekend,Heidi Jones (Visitor Experience Officer, RSPB Lakenheath Fen).