A wildlife-rich mosaic of habitats with free parking and a Visitor Centre just off the A1
Latin name: Buteo buteo A pair of common buzzards circling and “mewing” high over the Cambridgeshire countryside is a very welcome and familiar sight to many local naturalists these days, but this was not always the case. This slow flying, broad-winged raptor has had a somewhat controversial relationship with man, for in Victorian times it… Read More
Image: Jim Stevenson Robins in Fact and Fiction I suspect that most people in the UK know what an adult Robin looks like, but from my experience most do not understand that young Robins do not have red breasts. The situation is not helped as Christmas cards will often depict a family of Robins with… 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
Image: Michael Brace, CC BY 2.0 A Red Kite wheels over our back garden. So, what is unusual about that I hear you say? Let me tell you a story, which I will call “The Kite’s Tale”. During the Middle Ages the Red Kite was valued in the City of London, as it fed on human… Read More
A Brief Social and Cultural History I first knew of this spectacular bird from my long past birdwatching days in Yorkshire where it was, all those years ago, mainly a summer visitor, leaving us at the onset of colder weather in late autumn. Many of these northern breeders may end up at places like Grafham… Read More
