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Celebrating our work: Swindale Valley has won a 2022 UK River Prize!

By wildhaweswater / July 1, 2022

We’re delighted that our partnership project to restore habitats in Swindale Valley here at Wild Haweswater has won the 2022 UK River Prize Project-scale Award. The Swindale Valley Restoration Project involved a partnership between us at the RSPB, landowner United Utilities, the Environment Agency and Natural England. We’ve been working together to restore watercourses, bogs, […]

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A Vision of Wild Haweswater’s Future

By wildhaweswater / February 20, 2022

Tucked away at the eastern edge of the Lake District National Park, Haweswater Reservoir sits encircled by looming fells. The glacially-carved landscape is studded with mossy woodlands, rocky crags, bogs, tarns and rushing streams. The whole area is owned by water company United Utilities, and the reservoir supplies 2 million of their customers with their

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Holes in the map, part 8: Ospreys, goshawks & kites

By wildhaweswater / February 19, 2021

Part 8 of our series about the Lake District’s missing wildlife, written by Haweswater Site Manager Lee Schofield, strikes a cheerier tone and focuses on three avian conservation success stories. Back in the summer I took a walk with my kids to the summit of Dodd. Soaking up the views over Bassenthwaite, we spotted a

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End of year Q&A with the Wild Haweswater team

By wildhaweswater / December 31, 2020

A personal insight into the favourite wild moments of 2020, and exciting prospects for 2021, from some of the RSPB Haweswater team.

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Holes in the map, part 5: Water Vole

By wildhaweswater / December 6, 2020

The fifth part of the series focusing on species missing from the Lake District, Site Manager Lee Schofield looks for water voles. For aeons, The Lake District and its abundance of lakes, becks, tarns, ditches, bogs and ponds was heaven for water voles, one of the UK’s most endearing small mammals. Made famous by the

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Holes in the map, part 4: Eagles

By wildhaweswater / November 14, 2020

In the fourth part of the series exploring the species that have disappeared from Cumbria’s landscape, Haweswater Site Manager Lee Schofield traces the rise and fall of our two native eagles, both of which have a special place in the wild history of Haweswater For most of the last five decades, Haweswater was the only

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Lockdown at the Badger Hide | Brock behaviour and NEW wildlife!

By wildhaweswater / May 14, 2020

From intriguing badger behaviour to brand new visitors, Haweswater Visitor Development Officer Heather Devey shares the secret lockdown happenings at our Badger Hide, all caught by our Badger Cam.

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Holes in the map, part 2: Black Grouse

By wildhaweswater / April 16, 2020

RSPB Haweswater Site Manager, Lee Schofield, reflects on a species that recently vanished from the Lake District and what maps can tell us about the history of wildlife in Cumbria. For my 40th birthday, not too long ago, my wife gave me a framed print of the 1:25,000 Ordnance Survey map of the area surrounding

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