This page is for visitors to the Nature Reserve to send in their experiences of the reserve and images.
Please share your tales with us and PLEASE let us know if you have seen something rare or interesting, or have simply witnessed any unusual behaviour amongst the wildlife. We would also love to display your more unusual images on here. Please use the form at the bottom of the page.
Any images we use on this page will be credited to you and will not be used for any other publication or format without your prior permission.
Visitors have sent us some nice shots and descriptions of recent sightings, as below:
Visitor Sightings Gallery
Decisions, decisions.... © Julia Fisher-Robins
A pair of Muntjac Deer © Steve Houghton
Visitor, PAM BIRLEY writes:
“Last Thursday, 28th April we visited RW mainly to watch the Ospreys. However, a very unexpected treat was to both hear and SEE a Nightingale in the thicket behind the Manton Bay osprey hides. We were walking back to the visitor centre when we stopped to listen to some wonderful loud birdsong. After patiently waiting on the footpath we were rewarded with the sight of a small brown bird, sitting in the bright sun, singing it’s heart out. Not being an expert birdwatcher I thought I was looking at a Reed Warbler. A young man who had stopped to see what we were looking at asked if I had managed a photo and informed me with a smile that we had been looking at a Nightingale. I thought I had run out of battery as the camera would not take a picture of the bird. I said “just my luck, out of battery” and tried again, and lo and behold it took one more picture the way it was pointing as I was talking which was up the path from the hide. The bird was on the left of the path in the bushy trees. It continued to sing but after patiently trying to spot it again over the next 10 minutes or so I gave up and walked on – my husband had already given up and was way ahead of me, swatting his way through all the mosquitoes.
We had seen the Ospreys, the female in her nest and the male sitting in a nearby tree overhanging the water. At one point he chased off a Red Kite from the nest area. We had a lovely day out in the sun and in spite of the pesky mozzies we had enjoyed the beauty and peace of the reservoir”.
Thank you for this report Pam.
Frequent visitor Steve Houghton © spotted this pair of Muntjac Deer on his visit at the end of January
Use this form to give details of your sighting, and upload an image.