With the BBC Springwatch cameras having moved to their new home in Gloucestershire, the time has sadly come for their old studio here at Minsmere to come down. A team from Gilleards, who built the studio in 2014, are at Minsmere this week to carefully take it down.
While we'd have loved to keep the studio here at Minsmere, it had limited uses without electricity, water or toilets, and it only had temporary footings, so sadly we're bidding it a fond farewell. Lots of happy memories, but the wildlife remains, so please keep visiting.
The studio will be finding a new home, elsewhere in Suffolk, as it's being moved to the old Otter Trust headquarters at Earsham, where a new wildlife centre is planned to open soon.
I will miss seeing this as I walk to the Island Mere, we saw Green Woodpeckers and an Adder near here.
Carpe Deum