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The weather forecast for tomorrow is for very wet weather all day. This coupled with the fact that it will be cold means that we are unlikely to have a very productive or enjoyable time surveying at the Wader […]

In 1989, a big hole was dug in the ground at the nature reserve to create the Wader Scrape. Over time, this wetland feature hasn’t turned out to be the scrape for wading birds as was hoped but is, however, and […]

If you could spare some time to help monitor rare plants at the nature reserve then please read on…

Monitoring work of plants at Aberlady Bay includes that of around 25 individual species that are […]

Now that the sheep have left us we’ll be removing and moving the electric fencing this Sunday. We’ll be erecting fencing on the saltmarsh to try to keep foxes and badgers away from the nesting waders during the […]

Thanks to the 16 of you who came to pick up an assortment of plastics, fish boxes, tyres and other unsavouries on Wednesday. We managed to clear the whole of the beach, sand spit and half the saltmarsh! A […]

It’s feeling more spring-like on the reserve now with skylarks singing and lapwing displaying. And what a fine backdrop for the next volunteer group will be on Wednesday of next week (6th March) when we’ll be […]

Thanks to the 17 of you who came along on Sunday and did a lot of digging and pulling! It was a tremendous effort and you all justly deserved the fantastic weather, which was of course booked specially. Special […]

The last major sea buckthorn bashing session of the winter will be this Sunday (17th) when it’ll be more digging out of sea buckthorn regrowth, accompanied by big fire! Hot drinks will be provided and feel free to […]

We will be back to sea buckthorn work again for the next group this Wednesday. We’ll be working up by Gullane Point again and the work will involve digging out regrowth and having a big fire, maybe two! Hot […]

We will be combing the beach this Sunday (20th) to clear up plastic bottles, sweet wrappers and who knows what else as we clean up the beach. We’ll have Paddy the Storm Kettle on hand to make hot drinks. We’ll […]

For all those of you who survive Hogmanay and are up for some fresh air and fire, we will be on sea buckthorn duty on Wednesday (2nd Jan). As usual we’ll meet in the main car park at 9.30am and will be finished by […]

Thanks again to everyone who helped out at the nature reserve this year. Your achievements were great and your company marvellous! Below is a link to a review of the year, highlighting all your work.

Volunteer […]

Thanks to everyone who came along on Wednesday on what was a great day! We got three fires roaring, raked up all the cut grass on a very important area for plants (called the Football Pitch), dug up more sea […]

Hi Everyone,
well news has got out about all the hard graft you’ve been putting in at the reserve and my boss with the purse strings has handed over some money to get food to cook on the buckthorn fires this […]

Well, it’s been three months but the website’s finally back up and running. Who knows what will happen when I publish this post. Perhaps it will wend its way into all subscribers’ mail boxes? Maybe the space-time […]

We have unfortunately had to cancel the Volunteer Thank You Event planned for Wednesday. However, it will now take place on Saturday 29th September. Please get the date in your diaries and more information will be […]

On Sunday (if we get some warm, sunny weather!) we’ll be heading into the wet bits to hoik out reedmace which we have successfully been doing over the past couple of years. The task has varying degrees of wet and […]

The next volunteer group will be on Wednesday when, if the weather is warm enough, we’ll be taking out reedmace from the Wader Scrape. This will involve either digging out plants from the water’s edge, wading in […]