Happy New Year! 2020 is upon us and I am very excited for all the projects and wildlife excitement we have planned for the coming year! Christmas and New Year was filled with lots of joy and…

Conservation blogger Kate on Conservation challenged her blogger community to write the best 30 Days Wild blog. Here, we share a sample of winner #itsawildlife's submission as they write…

The new year has begun with lots of nice birds being seen at Abberton, including a Shag out on the water, Smew, Goldeneye, Goosander, Dartford warbler, Little stint, Barn owl, Water rail, Pergrine…

February concluded the hedge planting for this season, totalling 6,000 trees planted, and taking the grand total that has been planted on site by rangers and volunteers so far to 76,000. Some…

Blossom and leaves are just starting to show on the trees on the nature reserve. A sure sign of Spring.

April has been a varied month of some really hot days and also squally rain showers and cool wind. However it has been a great month for the return of many of our migratory bird species

Early May has had much warmer weather, with some beautifully sunny days bringing out the leaves on the trees in the woodland and hedges

June has so far been a pretty dry month. The warm, sunny weather has brought out the butterflies, including Ringlet, a lovely dark colour butterfly with ring shaped patterns on the underside of…

The hot dry weather has continued through July

The dry weather has finally broken and we have had some days of heavy rain at last.

September has been a busy month at Abberton.