Ann Miles Blog

Paxton Pits along with other wetland reserves carry out a monthly count of the birds on the Pits  (WeBS). Beautiful morning for our December...

It is not often you go to a reserve hoping to see a target species but, yesterday, we were lucky and within a short while of arriving at Far...

Yesterday morning was too wet to do outside work at Paxton Pits so we were undercover putting nest boxes together. In the afternoon, the rai...

 Food is obviously at a premium over the winter months. Gadwalls appear to be a gentle non-aggressive duck but they spend their time with co...

 While the numbers of birds and species on the water at Paxton Pits yesterday were impressive, the song birds were almost entirely absent du...