• Camera Obscura
    “Ae dreary, windy, winter night, The stars shot down wi’ sklentin light, Wi’ you, mysel’ I gat a fright.” - Robert Burns, Address to the Deil (1785) The first Saturday after I arrived at...
  • New Beginnings
    Mersehead Recent Sightings 3 rd -9 th June What a difference a week makes! With last week characterised by warm, dry weather, this week has seen wet and windy weather prevail. We had hoped to finish...
  • Magical Murmurations
    RSPB Mersehead Blog 15 th – 21 st January 2022 A flock of around 30 Linnet were seen down the merse on the weekend, posing for a photo on the new fence. Linnet on the merse. Photo credit: Luke Jones...
  • Mersehead Artist in Residency
    My first full day here had fallen on a Sunday. I remember it well. It had consisted mainly of horizons; the Solway was all sky and water and shifting light. The week’s work still lay ahead of me, and...
  • Spotlight Blog: A first hand account of long-term residential volunteering at Mersehead
    Having been a member of the team since last October, no one is better placed than Beth to describe what lays in store for our future long-term residential volunteers. My time as a residential volunteer...