RSPB Blacktoft Sands

RSPB Blacktoft Sands Protecting and restoring habitats, saving species and helping
end the nature and climate emergency.

14/06/2026

Today's highlights include preening spoonbills, swooping marsh harriers and a great white egret with a fascination for a stick. Bearded t**s, barn owl, bittern, tree sparrows, sedge warbler, reed bunting, cetti's warbler (seen) also recorded to name but a few.

13/06/2026

Is there such a thing as bittern over share? This one flew in from across the River Ouse to feed. Not all the bitterns seen are resident on site. Lots of places around the Humber Estuary provides perfect habitat for them. Great white egret, marsh harriers, hobby and barn owls also seen today.

12/06/2026

Now you see her now you don't, one of our female Bitterns using her wings to help slow and steady her slide down the reed onto the floor.

11/06/2026

Good to see a big brood of 13 Gadwall just out of the nest this morning, hopefully they will be OK despite the cold and rain. Gadwall female look like Mallard females but their breeding biology is very different, hatching over a month and a half later and feeding out in the open on the deeper ponds. This seems to give them an advantage with lower predation rates and and higher chick survival that is resulting in the Gadwall population overtaking Mallard as our most common duck on the reserve.

Not the best picture but amazing to see our first Marsh Harrier chick starting to fly yesterday! Almost three to four we...
09/06/2026

Not the best picture but amazing to see our first Marsh Harrier chick starting to fly yesterday! Almost three to four weeks earlier than they usually start to fledge, probably helped by the warm early spring and no big high tide in April.

It seems our Weasel has a growing family to feed somewhere close to reception. Sightings on the reserve today include re...
08/06/2026

It seems our Weasel has a growing family to feed somewhere close to reception. Sightings on the reserve today include regular Bittern, Spoonbill, Great Egrets, Bearded T**s and Marsh Harriers.

06/06/2026

Diving pochard chicks, snoozing spoonbill and floating marsh harriers are just some of this morning highlights. Bittern, yellow wagtail, tree sparrow, sedge warbler, reed bunting, reed warbler, cetti's warbler, black-tailed godwit and canada goose chicks seen today as well.

Bitterns have been particularly active recently with this female on Singleton lagoon yesterday. Also up to four Great Eg...
04/06/2026

Bitterns have been particularly active recently with this female on Singleton lagoon yesterday. Also up to four Great Egrets and two spoonbills, one being a Dutch ringed bird that had been seen at Tophill Low the day before.

With hungry mouths to feed the barn owls have been out hunting during the day giving some fantastic views. Thanks to reg...
02/06/2026

With hungry mouths to feed the barn owls have been out hunting during the day giving some fantastic views. Thanks to regular Pippa for these great shots. There is at least one chick in the barn owl box, possibly two. The stock doves didn't seem to give a hoot! - OK I admit that was a bit cheesy!
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Today we're at St. Mary Magdalene Church in Whitgift supporting Church Explorers Week. Pop in and see this amazing 12th ...
31/05/2026

Today we're at St. Mary Magdalene Church in Whitgift supporting Church Explorers Week. Pop in and see this amazing 12th Century building and chat to us about local wildlife. Find out about the quirky clock and pick up a free entry ticket to explore RSPB Blacktoft Sands

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