A wildlife-rich mosaic of habitats with free parking and a Visitor Centre just off the A1
Image by Corine Bliek, CC BY-NC 2.0 There has never been a time in my long birdwatching life that I have not been involved with this large and perhaps most attractive sawbill. This species has a very interesting history in the UK. It was widely persecuted in Scotland, but eventually bred successfully in Perthshire in… Read More
Image by Natural England, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 Latin name: Egretta garzetta This beautiful, elegant bird is a small white member of the heron family, which comprises of 60 species and can be found on every continent except Antarctica. The Little Egret is now widespread in Europe, where the birds which breed in the north of… Read More
Image by hedera.baltica, CC BY-NC 2.0 Every morning when we draw our curtains, the first bird we normally see is a jackdaw – Britain’s smallest crow and one of our most sociable birds. It is mostly dark grey with a lighter grey nape and is about two-thirds the size of a rook or crow. Its… Read More
Image by Don McCrady, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 Latin name: Anas Strepera Most literature give Gadwall as a naturalised resident. It is a very special Paxton Pits bird in that we hold, on average during late Autumn and Winter up to 350 of these attractive wild fowl. This exceeds 1% of the entire English wintering population,… Read More
Image by Natural England, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 Latin name – pica pica This is the most interesting, and at the same time the most controversial, British bird that I have yet covered in this “Finding Out” series on our native birds. The beautiful magpie is woven into our culture and folklore going back almost a… Read More
