• Small is beautiful
    Quite a nice range of birds and wildlife about at the moment as autumn kicks off in style. There was both little stint and curlew sandpiper yesterday with daily records of over 20 spotted redshank, green...
  • Rain rain beautiful rain!
    At last we're starting to have a little bit of rain to help refresh our lagoons and reedbed and hopefully tempt in a few birds although it does seem that already this 'hope' has come true with the re...
  • 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...