A wildlife-rich mosaic of habitats with free parking and a Visitor Centre just off the A1
We are pleased to announce that our latest Annual Wildlife Report is now available on the website: you can find it here, along with our previous reports. The report provides species-by-species accounts of all the birds recorded on the reserve, based on our annual breeding bird surveys, WEBs counts and casual records. There is a… Read More
Our annual report which gathers together all the sightings at the Paxton Pits complex over one year has now been published for 2019. Available to read on our website (along with reports from previous years), all the sightings have been gathered by volunteers, including for our WeBS and bird ringing surveys. Thank you to everyone… Read More
Huntingdonshire District Council have made the decision to close their Countryside Service Centres to the public. They will be reviewing this policy at the end of July. Therefore, the Visitor Centre, including the toilets, at Paxton Pits Nature Reserve remain closed. All Work Parties, Events and Wildlife Surveys will cease until further notice. The paths will remain open… Read More
Derek Gruar introduces the 2019 report from the bird ringing and monitoring that takes place at Paxton Pits The British Trust for Ornithology (BTO) has used Constant Effort Site (CES) bird ringing to monitor the abundance, breeding success and survival of 24 common breeding songbirds since 1986. Paxton Pits Nature Reserve is one of over… Read More
An update from our regular bird ringing team. Three extra ringing sessions were carried out in September after the end of our normal annual monitoring programme. With no strict methodological constraints, we could set nets at different times of the day (no 4am alarm calls!). As these sessions came after the breeding season had finished,… Read More
