This last week or so it really has felt like Spring has finally arrived.
Black-headed gulls are sitting on nests out on the islands, we've got lapwing chicks on the wet grassland and our lambs have been moved out of their paddock by the lambing shed and out onto the reserve.
The sandmartins are incredibly active around the sandmartin bank and we're getting some fantastic views of goslings and moorhen chicks right up by the visitor centre feeders, they're proving a real hit with families.
We've had very regular sightings of common terns, little grebe on the main lake, wheatear at Saltholme Pools hide, common and lesser whitethroats up at Haverton scrub and in the carpark.
Warblers are warbling all over the reserve. Sedge warbler, willow warbler, reed warbler, Cetti's warbler, grasshopper warbler and chiffchaff have all been heard and even occasionally seen.