Kingfishers Bridge Nature Reserve

Two very shaggy black water buffalo close to the fence in the wader meadow at Kingfishers Bridge Nature Reserve. There is a viewing hide in the background, looking over green grass and a lake surrounded by reeds. Willow trees coming into leaf under blue skies in the background.

Many different wading birds on the lake at Kingfishers Bridge Nature Reserve. There is green grass and reeds in the foreground. Willow trees coming into leaf under blue skies in the background.

Home Wood at Kingfishers Bridge Nature Reserve: an avenue of bare trees under bright blue skies leading to a green meadow in the distance.

A brown and buff wild Konik pony facing the camera in the green wildflower meadow at Kingfishers Bridge Nature Reserve. There are three other ponies in the background, grazing on green grass. A lake surrounded by reeds and willow trees coming into leaf under slightly overcast skies in the background.

🐣🪶 Getting ready for nesting season! So many birds!

🐃 🪺 Water buffalo are grazing the wader meadow to make it perfect for lapwing, redshank and avocet nests.

🐴🌼 Ponies are prepping the wildflower meadows for a brilliant summer display.

🥾👀Bring your wellies and binoculars to watch all the action!

🗓️ Just one week left to join our gorgeous, family-friendly spring run at the Early Bird rate!

🌼👟🏵️If you'd enjoy a speedy sprint or a relaxed trot through the cowslips, surrounded by birdsong, and a unique cherry-wood medal, sign up at kingfishers-bridge-nature-reserve.sumupstore.com/product/5km-...

Six people running in front of a low sun with trees either side and wildflowers in the foreground. The text reads: 5km Spring Run, Sunday 19th April, 11 am. Early bird price £12, full price £15. Walk, jog, run, the choice is yours. Early Bird price ends Sunday 15th March. Kingfishers Bridge Nature Reserve (green logo showing a kingfisher in flight)

The cowslip meadow at Kingfishers Bridge Nature Reserve in full bloom: delicate yellow flowers in green grass, with a background of a fence, trees, and blue sky

Four of Kingfishers Bridge's Konik ponies, trotting towards the camera in a green field, with golden reed beds, trees and a blue sky behind. Taken on the day of our most recent 5km run!

The kingfisher pond at Kingfishers Bridge Nature Reserve, showing as a bright blue diamond shape in a green field. Golden reed beds, trees, and blue sky in the background

Ever wanted to run, walk or jog through a cowslip meadow next to a field of wild ponies in one of Cambridgeshire's loveliest Nature Reserves?

🏞️ Join our 5km Spring Run on Sunday 19 April!

🎟️ Early Bird entry is just £12 until 15 March kingfishers-bridge-nature-reserve.sumupstore.com/product/5km-...

Text on a background of a tree in white blossom and blue and white sky: Kingfishers Bridge Nature Reserve, Dawn Chorus Walks, spring 2026 £15/person, all inclusive * Supporter discount * Check online for dates and times: www.kingfishersbridge.org

🌱🐣 Spring is coming, can you feel it?

🌅🐦 Join us on an exclusive walk deep into our Reserve at the most magical time of day (and then go back to bed if you like!)

🗓️ Sat 7 March — 4 places left
🗓️ Sat 28 March — 3 places left

Book at kingfishers-bridge-nature-reserve.sumupstore.com/product/dawn...

🌼🐃🐦 Run through the cowslips, wave to the water buffaloes, and immerse yourself in birdsong on our 5km Spring Run!

👟🚶‍♂️🏃‍♀️We loved our January run so much that we're doing it all again on Sunday 19 April. Will you join us? Walk, jog, run — the choice is yours:

www.kingfishersbridge.org/5km-spring-r...

🏞️ Get the kids outdoors and into nature on the Reserve this Half Term!

☔ Wellies and waterproofs on for child-friendly walks and adventures, then relax in @thekingfishercafe.bsky.social for a light lunch, hot drinks, and scrumptious home-made bakes and cakes ☕

👩‍👧‍👦🐾 What will you get up to together?

🌅 Availability for our Dawn Chorus Walks is currently:
• Saturday 7 March, 6am — 4️⃣ places
• Saturday 28 March, 5:30am — 6️⃣
• Saturday 4 April, 6:15am — 8️⃣

🏞️ Book now for an unforgettable morning with us, immersed in nature 🎶

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The Kingfisher Cafe The Kingfisher Café at the Kingfishers Bridge Visitors Centre is open every day of the week, offering a delicious seasonal menu

As soon as we can confirm opening times for the rest of the month, we'll post them here and on our website: www.kingfishersbridge.org/cafe.html

#CambridgeshireFens #NatureLoversWelcome #daysoutincambridgeshire #backsoon

We're very sorry that @thekingfishercafe.bsky.social and Visitor Centre are closed this weekend (7-8 February) due to staff shortages.

The Reserve itself is open as usual, so do come for a walk, but bear in mind there will be no access to the facilities in the Visitor Centre.

🥰 If you love baking, people and nature, like multi-tasking in a small, dynamic team, and can regularly work weekends, we'd love to hear from you!

📨 Email the Reserve Manager, James Moss, at james.moss@kingfishersbridge.org to ask for a job description and further details.

➡️ Please share widely!

The Kingfisher Cafe: we're hiring! Full-time Cafe Manager • Catering/hospitality leadership experience essential • Must love baking, people, and nature • Regular weekend working email James.moss@kingfishersbridge.org for more details.

🤔 Are you an experienced catering or hospitality manager looking for a new challenge?

👨🏾‍🍳 We're seeking a full-time manager to run @thekingfishercafe.bsky.social here at the Reserve. The role includes development, strategy and budgeting plus hands-on team leadership, cooking, and front-of house.

🛌🏻 And if these times feel early, there's nothing to stop you going back to bed afterwards—we won't tell!

🎟️ £15/person, including parking, a hot drink and exclusive access to an unforgettable experience.

🌅 Book before it's too late: kingfishers-bridge-nature-reserve.sumupstore.com/product/dawn...

🌱 Look forward to spring by booking one of our gorgeous Dawn Chorus Walks:

• Saturday 7 March, 6am — just 5️⃣ places left!
• Saturday 28 March, 5:30am
• Saturday 4 April, 6:15am

🦉 We'll go deep into the Reserve to hear Warblers and Lapwing, Barn Owls and Bitterns at the most magical time of the day.

A group of people saw, chop and carry small tree branches to a smoking bonfire, supervised by Reserve Manager James and his dog Hendrix, at Kingfishers Bridge Nature Reserve.

A man throws a tree branch onto a pile of freshly sawn logs, supervised by Hendrix the dog, at Kingfishers Bridge Nature Reserve.

A group of people carry away freshly sawn tree branches in a winter landscape with pollarded willows in the foreground, at Kingfishers Bridge Nature Reserve.

A woman feeds a smoking bonfire of freshly cut small tree branches, in front of the Mound at Kingfishers Bridge Nature Reserve.

🍂🪚🔥 Yesterday we welcomed onto the Reserve a brilliant volunteer work party of Environment Agency hydrologists, who helped clear and burn pollarded willow branches from the bottom of the Mound 👍💪

🙋👷‍♀️☕ Do you lead a team who'd like a volunteer day with us, in exchange for coffee & cake? Get in touch!

Text on a background of a flowering crab-apple tree: Dawn Chorus Walks, spring 2026. £15 per person, all inclusive. Supporter discount. Check online for dates and times: www.kingfishersbridge.org

🌱 Look forward to spring by booking one of our gorgeous Dawn Chorus Walks:
• Sat 7 March, 6am
• Sat 28 March, 5:30am
• Sat 4 April, 6:15am
🦉 We'll go deep into the Reserve to hear warblers and lapwing, barn owls and bitterns.
🎟️ Book at kingfishers-bridge-nature-reserve.sumupstore.com/product/dawn...

🌞🥾🐾🌦️ Make the most of this sunny Saturday, or shake off the showers on Sunday!

🏞️🦢🐴🐃🧑‍🍳 We bring you bird-filled blue skies and wetlands, wild ponies and water buffalo, tiffin and triple-choc muffins fresh from the oven @thekingfishercafe.bsky.social.

What are you waiting for? Come on over!

Need a moment of calm? Immerse yourself in nature at the Reserve this weekend #buffalove

Cafe Manager Zoe filling a muffin tin with delicious banana-chocolate mix in the kitchen of the Kingfisher Cafe

Cafe Manager Zoe putting a tray of delicious banana-chocolate muffins on a cooling rack in the kitchen of the Kingfisher Cafe

The remains of a banana-chocolate muffin, after the cafe manager, the reserve manager and yours truly had each taken a quarter. Can’t think who ate the last piece 🤔

The Kingfisher Cafe winter opening hours: Saturdays 10-4:30, Sundays 10-4:30 With all your usual favourites plus seasonal specials!

🧑‍🍳We’ve been rigorously taste-testing our new banana and chocolate muffins today. Can confirm they are DELICIOUS 😋

✨And miraculously, there are still plenty left for you! 🫵

🕙🕟 We’re open 10-4:30 Sat-Sun this winter. See you soon! 🔜

And everyone's a winner!

9. Turning on to the finishing strait
10-11. Proud medallists
12. Happy marshals

Thanks again to everyone who took part! 🌟

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Running the Reserve perimeter:

5. With the Water Buffaloes by Home Wood
6. Approaching the river Cam
7. Kilometre 3: over half way!
8. Back at Home Wood

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We're still basking in the afterglow of last Sunday's Resolution 5km Mud Run! Here are a few of the wonderful photos taken by participants and volunteer marshals:

1. Keeping warm before the start
2-3. The spectacular start in Home Wood
4. Looking for Water Buffaloes

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🙋🙋‍♀️ Hands up if you had as much fun as we did today, on our first-ever Resolution 5km Mud Run! 👟🐃🌳

🦸‍♀️🌟🦸‍♂️ HUGE thanks to all our super-hero event volunteers, @thekingfishercafe.bsky.social and Reserve staff, and to all our energetic participants.

Let's do it again some time! #resolution5k

5km mud run announced for Kingfishers Bridge nature reserve The Resolution 5km Mud Run will be the very first running event held on Kingfishers Bridge Nature Reserve in Wicken.

We're in the news! @elystandard.bsky.social
#resolution5k

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🏅➡️ 🎪🚾 👟 We're ready for our first-ever Resolution 5km Mud Run on Sunday! Are you?

🌬️Storm Goretti will have been and gone, and @thekingfishercafe.bsky.social will keep us warm with hot drinks, soups, paninis and cake ☕🍲🍰

🎟️ Still a few places left: www.kingfishersbridge.org/resolution-m...
Join us!

Tuesday update: 1️⃣2️⃣ places left, grab yours while you can 🏃🏻‍♀️🔜

⚠️ Just ONE WEEK before our first-ever Resolution 5km Mud Run — and only 25 places left!

👟 So if you want motivation to keep walking, jogging, or running in nature this January, grab a ticket at www.kingfishersbridge.org/resolution-m... and we'll see you on Sunday!

☕ The Café will be open too 👍

Konik ponies grazing at Kingfishers Bridge Nature Reserve under blue skies, no filter photo taken on Friday 2 January 2026

Wading birds on the lake at Kingfishers Bridge Nature Reserve under blue skies, no filter photo taken on Friday 2 January 2026

Bronze-coloured oak leaves still on the tree under blue skies, no filter photo taken on Friday 2 January 2026

The Kingfisher Cafe winter opening hours: Saturdays 10–4:30, Sundays 10–4:30, with all your usual favourites plus seasonal specials!

🎵 Cream coloured ponies in watery meadows,
Blue skies and bare trees and long winter shadows,
Geese on the lake and swans on the wing:
These are a few of our favourite things 🎵

If they're yours as well, pop over this weekend! 🥾🐾😎

The @thekingfishercafe.bsky.social's open Sat-Sun 10–4:30 too ☕🍰🌮

3️⃣ Support your year-round outdoor habit with household membership of Supporters of Kingfishers Bridge. For just £45/year it offers:

🚗 free onsite parking
🎟️ 10% cafe & events discount & priority booking
📰 regular email newsletters
🏞️ intimate access to nature
www.kingfishersbridge.org/become-a-sup...

Resolved to spend more time in nature in 2026? Take 3 steps with us:

1️⃣ Start easy with a New Year's Day walk and @thekingfishercafe.bsky.social cafe stop 🥾🐾☕

2️⃣ Take a brisk walk, jog or run round our motivational Resolution 5km Mud Run on 11 January 👟🚶🏃‍♀️
www.kingfishersbridge.org/resolution-m...

🥇Our first-ever Resolution 5km Mud Run is filling up fast and is likely to sell out!

🙋If you'd like to help out on 11 January please DM us or email hospitality@kingfishersbridge.org before 2 January if possible.

👟Or grab a place to take part for just £15: www.kingfishersbridge.org/resolution-m...