• Celebrating World Wetlands Day along the Humber!
    Tomorrow the 2nd February is World Wetlands Day , and for us on the Humber reserves team there is nothing more important than a day when you celebrate the importance of places that are so important for...
  • The Shortest Day - Winter Solstice and moon corona
    Today being the Winter Solstice often seems like a watershed in the natural calendar when over the coming weeks we again have just that little bit more light and time to enjoy the wildlife . Today it...
  • Sand martins and spoonbills
    This last couple of days seems to have been dominated by our marvellous spoonbills and then when the weather was overcast a fantastic gathering of 6000 roosting sand martins . On some days there has been...
  • Up where the air is clear, up in the atmosphere
    Apologies for there being no blog for a while, work has just been incredibly busy and even today its going to be a short blog I'm afraid. Just a reminder that the reserve opens 9am to 5pm - last entry...
  • Reserve provides welcome shelter for wildfowl and waders in constant stormy weather.
    The last few days have really seen the weather almost boiling as the winds rage and squalls of rain filled clouds push constantly across the Humber landscape , but in many ways the scenes have been particularly...