Trimley Marshes

There was a Peregrine Falcon and a stunning male Marsh Harrier hunting over the reserve this afternoon.

Snape Marshes

We had a work party at Snape this morning with volunteers making a start on erecting a new fence.

Trimley Marshes Wetland Bird Reserve

Winter Migration Part 2. http://www.felixstowetv.co.uk/video-archive/viewvideo/619/swt-conservation-documentries/trimley-marshes-migration-pt2

Trimley Marshes

Tim Day of Barry Day & Sons has completed the restoration work on the summer flood area.  Grassland that had eroded due to wave action has now been restored with a mosaic of varying but shallow depths of water.  Dyke's have been slubbed and sluice areas cleared.

Tim's skill and creative use of his JCB has completed a fantastic job, thanks Tim.

Below are photographs of the summer flood with the water rising again.

Damselflies and Dragonflies in Suffolk

The distribution of damselflies and dragonflies in Suffolk
 
Thanks to those you have submitted records for 2011, for those that have not, please submit records for the 2011 season to:

Adrian Parr, County Dragonfly Recorder, email: adrian.parr@btinternet.com

Or to

Dorothy Casey, c/o Suffolk Dragonfly Group Suffolk Wildlife Trust email:

dorothy.casey@suffolkwildlifetrust.org

 

Next year will be the final year of the atlas and we would welcome recorders to send in all records along with helping to cover areas that are under-recorded.

 

Further details can be found about the Suffolk Local Dragonfly Group - http://www.suffolkwildlifetrust.org/species-and-habitats/the-suffolk-local-dragonfly-group/.

Trimley Marshes Nature Reserve

It was a frosty early morning and bitterly cold in the wind; in twilight we saw a Long-eared Owl flying along the bridleway.

More photos of Tim Day resculpturing the summer flood scrape and increasing the size of the islands for breeding birds.

Trimley Reserve

Tim Day restoring another dyke across the main marsh.

Birds today included Bearded Tit 14 (reserve record), Buzzard 2 and
Marsh Harrier 1.