Afternoon everyone!
How are you?
Have you recovered from the too much food, too much drink, too much telly, too much chocolate (and all the other too much's...)?
The reserve is open as usual 10 am-5pm (or dusk if earlier, which is about 4pm at the moment) so you can get out and about and enjoy a nice stoll!
Have you had yoru fill of chocolate yet?Well, you’ve probably had your fill of chocolate over the last couple of weeks, but once your sweet tooth recovers from the overdose, we’ve got a way you can enjoy a nice bit of choccie guilt free... Ok so not entirely guilt free – it’ll still contain the same old calories, but what it doesn’t contain is palm oil.
Clearing forests to grow oil palm is one of the key drivers of deforestation. Palm oil is found in a whole host of products that we use every day, from cosmetics to biscuits. Unfortunately, it’s not easy to spot when a product contains palm oil because companies don’t have to list it as an ingredient – instead they can simply call it vegetable oil.
One product you can be sure doesn’t contain palm oil though is our Love Nature chocolate (or biscuits, or even fudge!). There’s three delicious varieties to choose from so go on, treat yourself! Nom!
It's been a little bit grey today, although the sun has been trying to shine, and has been shining quite well for the last hour or so.This morning the reserve looked lovely - I went for a quick squiz round earlier with Keith. In one direction the sky was grey and in the other the sun was shining! I tried to take a picture as it did look lovely - the blue grey sky with the sun lighting up the trees a lovely orange...I don't think the picture does it justice (it just looks grey to me) so you'll have to take my word for it!
There are loads of teal about today (as well as the other usual duck suspects), lovely views of grey wagtails from the Tern Hide, snipe, fieldfare, loads of blackbirds (I know blackbirds are quite common but there were loads today!), a buzzard flying over the meadow and even a sparrowhawk pestering the lapwing!
Do keep an eye to the skys - you might see somehing like this picture of the lapwing flying - I do love to see a flock of lapwing flying. They look great, they almost twinkle - with the black and white wing.... do you knwo what I mean? Anyhoo, if the birds are up (inlcuding the lapwing and the gulls) something might have spooked them, there might be a bird of prey about!
See you soon,Lou