a partnership between

Anglian Water and Leicestershire & Rutland Wildlife Trust

This page was last updated 4th March 2010

LYNDON OPENING

The Lyndon Visitor Centre will re-open daily throughout the Summer, from 20th March 2010 For further information on visiting and opening hours please see here.

SPRING SALE !!

Save a few pounds this Spring in our BIG Book Sale! We are having a clearout of some older and NOT SO OLD titles of BOOKS to make way for new stock. Coffee Table books, children's books, specialist volumes; some great titles available from £1.99 - Don't miss out on this one-off opportunity to collect some fantastic titles!

Also available, a BIG SALE on DVD's, Gifts, PLUS up to 50% off a selection of Greetings Card and big savings on Christmas Cards .

All available from the Egleton visitor Centre ! Come and browse today.

VOTE FOR US AT BOVRIL.CO.UK

Bovril are doing up the great outdoors and Rutland Water Nature Reserve has been nominated to be revived with a share of £100,000. If the Reserve is successful in winning this amount it will go to the conversion of a barn into a Birdwatching Hide in the North Arm of the Resevoir. Only a few get selected, so vote now ! PLEASE.

PLEASE SUPPORT US BY GIVING US YOUR VOTE NOW !

To vote, just CLICK HERE to be taken to the Bovril.co.uk site and quote this product Code: EMOT000317

PLEASE VOTE FOR US NOW!

Foxy Coots

Visitor Owen Marston was witness to a brave attempt by a Fox to catch Coots in front of Crake Hide recently. Below is one of the images Owen captured, with the full series of events shown on our Visitors Page

© Owen Marston

Sneaky Stoats

Over the past couple of weeks Stoats have been busy hunting in front of the Egleton Visitor Centre. Below is a curious young stoat captured by © Sue James

PATH CLOSURES AT EGLETON

As from 15th September 2009 we have to close certain tracks along the southern routes from the Birdwatching Centre at Egleton. The reason being, that work has now begun on the next stage of the Rutland Habitats Programme. Over the next year new wetlands and lagoons will be created to provide habitat for birds that may be displaced during future periods of draw down in the main body of the reservoir. We are sorry for any inconvenience that this causes but by the end of the project the reserve will have substantial new habitats which will be enjoyed not just by the wildlife but by visitors as well!

The initial programme will result in the closure of TERN HIDE as contractors erect 6 kilometres of newt fencing to catch and remove great crested newts to ponds outside the construction area. Hedgerows and banks leading to tern hide will be removed and in late October work will begin in this area –C5- to create a series of wet ditches and scrapes which should in future years attract species such as Redshank, Lapwing and Snipe to breed. A new access route has been created to allow visitors to access the hides leading to Lax Hill and Goldeneye Hide. Please follow the marked route at all times.

WIGEON and HERON HIDES will also be closed due to new access roads being constructed to allow construction vehicles to access the areas D1 and D2. Work is this section is due to start on 1st November and continue through the winter period into early spring 2010. Visitors may walk to and around Lax Hill, Gorse Close and Goldeneye Hide but will have to return on the same outward route back to the Birdwatching Centre. For further information please ask our staff or Duty volunteer for a leaflet explaining the Rutland Habitats Project.

For more information about this exciting project, click here.