
March sightings
Amidst the changeable weather, signs of spring are peaking through. Keep your eyes and ears open.
View from birdwatching hide over wetland habitat, Woodwalton Fen NNR, Cambridgeshire, UK - Mark Hamblin/2020VISION
Insects are the particular focus for us, in the coming months, so please let us have your sightings from the Great Fen, via this contact details on this page.
Amidst the changeable weather, signs of spring are peaking through. Keep your eyes and ears open.
Look to the skies and keep your ears open, as you never know what might be flying over.
The winter wildfowl are just some of the visitors appearing this month, but the invertebrates are just as impressive!
A time of change. Our summer visitors are leaving us, other birds pass through and winter arrivals start to appear.
Warm weather finally brings out the insects, so time for some dragonfly spotting. Young birds are also on the wing, from kingfishers to reed warblers.
Tigers are on the prowl in the Great Fen and dragons emerge from their watery lairs.
Wheatears are running along the tracks, swallows are skimming along the dykes, and cuckoos are calling from the treetops.
Spring has sprung, so there is plenty to look out for. Listen for new arrivals as we enter one of the most exciting periods in the wildlife calendar.
A record breaking February results in some stunning invertebrate sightings and birds breaking into song.
As the temperature goes up and down, and the water thaws and refreezes, our wildlife responds; another aspect of the changing face of the Great Fen.