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We’ve had a great week here at the visitor centre. May is a wonderful month for nature; we’ve already been hearing cuckoo calls and have been lucky to have see …
Hello avid egg watchers! Incubation is the current priority for our osprey pair, and for a while it seemed like they were the only species actively breeding on the reserve. …
Over the past week we have been catching fleeting glimses of a pine marten in the feeding station. Pine martens are roughly the size of house cats and are related …
It is great to see both ospreys back on the nest! LM12 and LF15 have been very busy since LM15’s return on Thursday. The pair have been mating frequently since …
I am delighted to say that we have reopened for the spring season 2018, it’s still a bit cold and not very spring like just yet. However, the golden eye …
I hope you have all been enjoying the super moons over the last few weeks, cloud permitting. As well as having bright moonlight at night from the two full moons …
Spring time is a busy time of year for birds, whether they’re migrating, attracting mates, making nests, or raising chicks. It’s been exciting to see this new flurry of activity …
Volunteering at the Montrose Basin 3 full days a week has really given me an appreciation for how variable it is. In the past, I’ve only visited for maybe an …
The European Rabbit If you come to Montrose Basin Visitor Centre this spring you’ll be hard pressed not to see a number of the rabbits which live on the …
With the exciting return of the Ospreys at Loch of the Lowes, we too have some of our own spring migrants returning to the Basin. The first of the sand …