Focus on Sculthorpe Moor

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Welcome to the Sculthorpe Moor Community Nature Reserve webcam, currently showing a bird table in the woodland at the reserve. So far this season two tawny owl broods have successfully emerged from camera-enabled nest boxes, and the awful weather means the marhs harriers' breeding season started late. We hope to have harrier fledglings on the webcam soon, but until then woodland birds are on screen.

Cameras are used extensively on the reserve and visitors to this site in the summer of 2011 will have seen the view from a camera on a marsh harrier nest and may have seen the adult female feeding her six young. On 15 June the nestlings had light green BTO-approved tags fixed to their wings to aid identification when they fly. This was the start of a five-year study of Wensum Valley marsh harriers to investigate where they overwinter and whether they return to the sites where they were hatched. To spot these young individuals now they have fledged, look out for marsh harriers bearing wing tags AA, AB, AC, AD, AF and AH. A further two birds from a second nest at Sculthorpe Moor have also been tagged AN and AP. The tags do not impede the birds' movements.