JONATHAN MARSHALL

On Thursday I visited the superb Spurn Point National Nature Reserve which is located off the tip of the coast of East Yorkshire.  Spurn is a narrow sand tidal strip of land which reaches into the North Sea and forms the north bank of the mouth of the Humber estuary....

 A few photos from local walks and my garden during lockdown as well as a few from further afield once lockdown was eased.

After a month of really wet weather it was finally a dry day last Sunday so I headed up to Staveley Nature Reserve which is located just a few miles west of Boroughbridge at the village of Staveley.  There are four hides at the reserve with three overlooking the East L...

On Saturday I made the trip up the A19 to visit the Wildfowl & Wetland Trust site at Washington a short distance west of Sunderland.  WWT Washington was established in 1975 and its wildlife includes several rare species of Swans, Geese and Ducks as well as a large floc...

On Thursday I made the trip across the Pennines to visit a wetland nature reserve called Martin Mere which is managed by the Wildfowl & Wetland Trust.  The site was opened by Sir Peter Scott in 1975 and is situated near the village of Tarlscough, 10 miles east of South...

On Thursday I travelled up the A19 to visit the Wildfowl & Wetland Trust site at Washington a short distance west of Sunderland.  WWT Washington was established in 1975 and its wildlife includes several rare species of Swans, Geese and Ducks as well as a large flock of...

On Friday I began my journey home from Scotland but I planned on stopping off at RSPB Leighton Moss which is a superb nature reserve located at Silverdale in Lancashire on the edge of Morecambe Bay.  It was opened by the RSPB in 1964 and contains the largest area of re...

On Thursday, the third day of my trip to Scotland, I headed for RSPB Mersehead which is located 18 miles from Dumfries just off the A710 coastal road between Dumfries and Dalbeattie near the village of Caulkerbush.  The site is till a working farm and boasts a wide var...

On Wednesday I headed for WWT Caerlaverock which is a wetland nature reserve a few miles south of Dumfries in south west Scotland and is one of nine reserves run by the Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust which was founded by Sir Peter Scott.  The reserve covers a 587 hectare si...

On Tuesday I made the journey up to Scotland to spend a few days in Dumfries and Galloway and after dropping my bags off at the Station Hotel in Dumfries I headed east to visit Eskrigg Nature Reserve.  The reserve is on the site of an old curling pond just outside Lock...