Kingfishers Bridge Nature Reserve

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Kingfishers Bridge Nature Reserve The Reserve conserves 250 acres of rare Wetland Habitats and wildlife, benefitting local communities A few have needed some help.
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Where tractors once cultivated the soil to grow potatoes and cereals there are now meadows with hundreds of wintering wildfowl, reedbeds with nesting Marsh harriers and limestone cliffs with breeding Sand martins and Kingfishers. The project, which was started by private initiative, has many special features. It benefits from various water sources including clear, clean water seeping from a limestone ridge which lies adjacent to the site. Water levels are carefully managed for optimum wildlife benefit with the use of banks, ditches and sluices which ensure none is wasted. Reedbed, fen, mere, ditches, ponds, islands, meadows, scrapes and cliffs have all been created, each with the special features needed to attract a variety of species. For instance the reedbed has open pools, some deep water, an extensive ditch system and variable water depth to attract species such as Bittern. It has also been stocked with fish and small eels to ensure a good food supply is available. Since 1995 over 300 plant taxa have been recorded, most of which have colonised naturally. Water Germander had declined in eastern England to just 12 plants, all at Kingfishers Bridge. With the help of some funding from English Natures Species Recovery Programme our work has increased the population to over 500,000 – an increase of over 4,000,000%

💀Essential dates for your diary! Outdoor fun for everyone at Halloween /half term week ⬇️
09/10/2026

💀Essential dates for your diary! Outdoor fun for everyone at Halloween /half term week ⬇️

🎃🕸Half Term and Halloween are just around the corner... and we've got activities for all the family:🔎🕷️ take your little...
09/10/2026

🎃🕸Half Term and Halloween are just around the corner... and we've got activities for all the family:

🔎🕷️ take your little ones on a creepy-crawly hunt in the woods (daytimes throughout Half Term week)

👟👻 dress up or speed around for our 5km Fun Run (Sunday 25 October) — book at https://kingfishers-bridge-nature-reserve.sumupstore.com/product/5km-autumn-run

🔥🎻 spend Halloween around the fire pit at the Night Cafe The Kingfisher Cafe , with the best live music (Saturday 31 October of course)!

We love seeing visitors’ photos of the Reserve! They bring a whole new perspective to
04/10/2026

We love seeing visitors’ photos of the Reserve! They bring a whole new perspective to

🦇🦉🎃 Get in the mood for Halloween with our 5km Autumn Fun Run! 👻🧝‍♂️🕷Witches, ghosts and goblins all very welcome to fly...
04/10/2026

🦇🦉🎃 Get in the mood for Halloween with our 5km Autumn Fun Run!

👻🧝‍♂️🕷Witches, ghosts and goblins all very welcome to fly around our gorgeous Nature Reserve, as well as runners, walkers, and joggers of all ages and abilities.

🏅☕Earn a special finishers' medal and treat yourself to coffee and Halloween-themed goodies at The Kingfisher Cafe afterwards!

🗓 Sunday 25 October at 11 am

🎟https://kingfishers-bridge-nature-reserve.sumupstore.com/product/5km-autumn-run

🏞All funds raised support our work to preserve endangered Fenland wildlife and habitat.

Come for the big skies and gorgeous wildlife, stay for the irresistible cake! 🏞️🐃🥾🐾☕️🍰
03/10/2026

Come for the big skies and gorgeous wildlife, stay for the irresistible cake! 🏞️🐃🥾🐾☕️🍰

👩‍🍳 Chef Jane’s wonderful fruit tea loaf, straight from our oven this morning. The perfect accompaniment to a gentle walk around Kingfishers Bridge Nature Reserve this weekend!

We’re open every day 8:30-4:30, serving coffee, tea, freshly prepared lunches and scrumptious home-made cakes and baked. Vegan and GF options always available.

☀💧It's increasingly hard to keep our wetlands wet through the hot dry summers. The lake has shrunk well below its normal...
03/10/2026

☀💧It's increasingly hard to keep our wetlands wet through the hot dry summers. The lake has shrunk well below its normal levels and the small ponds have dried up.

🚜🐴 So the Warden's team and volunteers are starting to dig a reservoir on our lime grassland to store surplus winter rainwater. You may see the machinery out on the Reserve on your next visit (near 8 on the map). The Konik ponies are very interested in what's happening!

🏞️👨‍🌾 The Warden's team has completed their maintenance project on the Cam Washes SSSI — and doesn't it look fantastic?🦆...
02/10/2026

🏞️👨‍🌾 The Warden's team has completed their maintenance project on the Cam Washes SSSI — and doesn't it look fantastic?

🦆🐂This 18th-century construction is designed to hold the river Cam's winter floods, providing precious wetland habitat for wildlife and Spinney Abbey 's lovely longhorn cattle.

🤩🚜 Sabbatical volunteer Emily became an expert dumper driver! We shall miss her greatly: thank you Emily!

📸 Photos by James, Mille and Paul.

🗓️👟Less than a month to go before our 5km Autumn Run!🍂🏞️🐃 Book now for just £15 to walk, run or jog through gorgeous Kin...
29/09/2026

🗓️👟Less than a month to go before our 5km Autumn Run!

🍂🏞️🐃 Book now for just £15 to walk, run or jog through gorgeous Kingfishers Bridge Nature Reserve on Sunday 25 October. All ages and abilities welcome!

https://kingfishers-bridge-nature-reserve.sumupstore.com/product/5km-autumn-run

All participants earn:

🏅a unique hand-crafted medal made from fallen wood from the Reserve;

☕ the moral right to coffee and home-made cake at our The Kingfisher Cafe afterwards;

🥰 the warm glow of knowing that your entry fee supports our work to protect endangered Fenland wildlife and habitat!



Some photos by our wonderful volunteer photographer Shirley Sadler.

🦇Just ONE ticket left for this season of Evening Bat Walks! Saturday 3 October at 6:30 pm. 🎟 £16 includes hot drink and ...
27/09/2026

🦇Just ONE ticket left for this season of Evening Bat Walks! Saturday 3 October at 6:30 pm.

🎟 £16 includes hot drink and parking. Grab it now, or wait until our next series of walks in the spring.

https://kingfishers-bridge-nature-reserve.sumupstore.com/product/evening-bat-walk

🔟 If you don't want to miss out in future, why not join our Supporters and get priority booking on events, free parking, and 10% discount on events and at The Kingfisher Cafe ?

https://www.kingfishersbridge.org/become-a-supporter.html

📷 taken on the first of last autumn's Evening Bat Walks, no filter

🙋Volunteers wanted!👟Join our event team Sunday 25 October (10 am – 12 noon) to support our wonderful 5km Autumn Run!🏞Our...
26/09/2026

🙋Volunteers wanted!

👟Join our event team Sunday 25 October (10 am – 12 noon) to support our wonderful 5km Autumn Run!

🏞Our series of Seasonal Runs provides a friendly, inclusive opportunity to walk, jog or run through the gorgeous, tranquil setting of Kingfishers Bridge Nature Reserve in exchange for a unique finishers' medal, hand-made from wood that's fallen on the reserve. Every penny raised goes to supporting our protection of endangered Fenland wildlife and habitat.

🏅If you have a couple of hours to spare and would like to cheer on participants as a marshal, or sign them in and hand out medals at the end, do get in touch at [email protected].

We'll pay you in coffee, cake and a medal of your own, and offer you a free place on one of next year's runs.

Or book a place on the run for yourself at https://kingfishers-bridge-nature-reserve.sumupstore.com/product/5km-autumn-run

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36A Stretham Road, Wicken
Ely
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