Cresswell Pond
Cresswell Pond, just off the beautiful Druridge Bay coastline, is a shallow brackish lagoon, providing a year-round haven for wading birds.
Cresswell Pond, just off the beautiful Druridge Bay coastline, is a shallow brackish lagoon, providing a year-round haven for wading birds.
All our reserve car parks are now closed, but our reserves are open. If you live within walking distance of a reserve, why not visit it? But please be sensible.
Cresswell Foreshore is a large wave-cut platform with many shallow rockpools, attracting varied marine wildlife and wading birds.
We are experiencing large numbers of dead birds on our nature reserves as a result of bird flu.
The ‘Beast from the East’ struck last week and Northumberland, much like everywhere else in Britain, lay concealed under a blanket of snow. All around the county, the ground lay white, water…
Hi all! Crikey where has the time gone, we haven’t written a blog since May! In spite of Covid-19, we have had a busy summer and were able to release 150 water voles in June.
Water figwort is a tall plant of riverbanks, pond margins, damp meadows and wet woodlands. Its maroon flowers are pollinated by the Common wasp.
There are several species of spider that live in our wetlands, but the water spider is the only one that spends its life under the water. In its pond habitats, it looks silvery because of the air…
Following a slow start to the Kielder Water & Forest Park osprey season, hampered by the Beast from the East, the breeding season is well underway with three eggs in each of the four nests.…
The common pond skater can be seen 'skating' over the surface of ponds, lakes, ditches and slow-moving rivers. It is predatory, feeding on small insects by detecting vibrations in the…
The large, dark grey water shrew lives mostly in wetland habitats. It's a good swimmer that hunts for aquatic insects and burrows into the banks.