We recently announced that two species of egret had been recorded breeding in Nottinghamshire for the very first time, writes Erin McDaid of the Nottinghamshire Wildife Trust. The breeding success of both Great White and Cattle egrets at the trust’s Besthorpe Nature Reserve is, from a naturalist’s perspective, very exciting considering that these birds have only become established here in the UK relatively recently. But, given that climate change is likely to have played at least some part in the continued northward spread of these and other species, their arrival should trigger some concern a…
