• Battle of the big guns!
    Well I promised in the last blog that I'd tell the story about the stunning male peregrine in pictures as not only was it an amazing sequence of events to watch I also managed to get some nice photo's...
  • Big tides force reserve closure
    As you can see the tides have come across the whole site this last two days and we expect more of the same at least until tomorrow and Wednesday. So as the paths will be flooded quite deep as of this...
  • A little bit of Mycea magic
    With all this lovely wet weather about it seems that this autumn the local fungi are emerging in profusion around the reserve and on some of our other sites around the estuary . Now I'm certainly no expert...
  • Easterly airflow brings the little gulls
    The weather may not exactly feel like it's spring here on the Humber (wrap up warm if you visit!), but the easterly airflow and depressed temperatures seem to have had some benefits to the birding on...
  • Snow but no big freeze up!
    The last week here on the Sands has at last started to see a bit of much needed winter arrive with frosts and a wee flurry of snow last night that gave a light dusting across the reserve . This proper...