• New Year brings new birds
    Happy New Year everyone. I hope that you have all had a happy, healthy and relaxing break over the Christmas and New Year period. I'm sure that many of you will, like birdwatchers across the globe,...
  • Happy New Year
    As we come to the end of another decade, I'm reminded of the lyrics of an ABBA track from 40 years ago, the third verse of which ends: " It's the end of a decade In another ten years time Who can say...
  • Species of the week: otter
    Many visitors have made their way down to Island Mere Hide over the few weeks in the hope of seeing our bitterns. I'm sure that they've not really believed us in reception when we've said that they WILL...
  • A partridge in a reedbed, not a pear tree
    One of the most rapidly declining birds in the UK put in an unexpected appearance at Minsmere on Monday. Grey partridges were once a familiar sight throughout the UK, so much so that they are often referred...
  • Brightening up a dull winter day mk2
    Without wanting to sound like a stuck record, it's been another dull wet today, following on from several more dull wet days since my last blog. In fact, it's been so wet recently that we have had to...