A wildlife-rich mosaic of habitats with free parking and a Visitor Centre just off the A1
Dabbling Ducks Dabbling Ducks feed in shallow water or in floating weed, by flipping upside down, with their tails sticking up in the air. You can find some at the Pits all year round, for example, the familiar mallard and the distinctive shoveler with its broad, spade-shaped bill. In the winter, many more ducks arrive… Read More
I like Teal. So, it was good to see that 402 Teal were counted on our Wetland Bid Survey (WeBS-a British Trust for Ornithology run survey) on Sunday. Generally, the ducks seem to be slow at arriving at Paxton Pits this Autumn. The winds have been blowing the wrong way and the weather has not… Read More
Winter Thrushes This month you can see Fieldfares and Redwings in flocks, often a mixture of both species, feeding on the ground or in trees and bushes. They have flown over the North Sea from Scandinavia in search of our milder winter weather. Berries Fieldfares and Redwings are particularly keen on the abundant crop of… Read More
Friends volunteer, popular guide and bird expert Trevor Gunton introduces his next in a series of informative articles. Image by Peter Hagger Local birdwatchers do not seem to take much interest in our mainly resident swans, almost as if they are not real wild birds. They are ever present on most pits throughout the year,… Read More
The first winter Thrushes have arrived. Paxton Pits Nature Reserve exists because of the sand and gravel being quarried here for many decades. Aggregate Industries have been working to the north and are now about to start the next phase in the privately owned arable fields, which, when they have finished, will become a reed… Read More
