Your wildlife garden part 2 – Feeding birds
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Bird feeding is not only a highly popular activity, with the UK spending around £200 million a year on this particular habit, but also plays a vital role in helping …
Visitor Centre and Reserve News
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Summer is upon us! Well not quite, but the Visitor Centre will be reverting back to its ‘summer’ opening hours from today (Saturday 1st March). This means we will be …
Winter Warmers
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It doesn’t seem to matter how cold and severe the weather is, our garden birds are still out in force, feeding away and going about their business as usual, all …
Review of 2013 – Part 4
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October October was a month when our thoughts were still focused on our Pink Footed Geese, what’s the peak number going to be, when will they arrive and when will …
Review of 2013 – Part 3
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August August is usually the last month that you can guarantee regular sightings of all of our common summer migrants, with Ospreys continuing to fish during low tide, Common Terns …
Review of 2013 – Part 2
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May May was another month in which thoughts were focused on the return of our summer migrants. Osprey sightings continued to be a regular occurrence throughout the month whilst Sand …
Review of 2013
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Before we continue into a 2014 that will hopefully be filled with rare sightings, exciting news and fantastic events, I thought it would be good to take a look back …
Off to a Flyer?
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Happy New Year from all here at Montrose Basin! In the birding world this means it’s that time of the year again, when last year’s sightings and lists are put …
Basin Notes
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It is at this time of year, with the wind howling and the rain battering against the window, when we realise just how sensible much of our wildlife is by …
Reserve Sightings
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Over the last few days we have been lucky enough to count a male Blackcap as one of our regular visitors, seen regularly feeding on the apples that we have …