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Behind-the-Scenes to Fathers Go Feral!
Behind-the-Scenes Tours – On Saturday 9th and Sunday 10th June Find out more about how the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust manage a complex mosaic of intertidal and freshwater habitats. Grounds and Reserve Manager, Kerry Mackie, will take you behind the sce
5 June 2012
Out on the reserve today
Temminck's stint - 1 on the main lagoon One of the young water voles was very active and brave this morning, munching reeds in the open right beside the footbridge. Out on the pool next [...]
5 June 2012
Todays Sightings
Whooper Pond Mute Swan 2 + 6 cygnets Gadwall 1 Mallards with ducklings Teal Pond Little Grebe on nest Flood Ground Wigeon 2 Oystercatcher 2 Heron Mallard with families of [...]
5 June 2012
Wildlife sightings for 5th June 2012
1 Teal - main lake 1 Greenshank - wader scrape 1 Redshank - wader scrape 3 Little Ringed Plover - main lake, wader scrape 15 Common Tern - main lake 2 Chiffchaff - wildside &nb [...]
5 June 2012
Red Necked Phalarope
Red Necked Phalarope A superb female was found on the South Lake this morning 11.00. South Lake Red Necked Phalarope 1 ad female. Black Tailed Godwit 10 Oysterc atcher 2 Holden Tow [...]
5 June 2012
Sightings 4th June 2012
WADER LAKE low tide Avocet 10 (4 nests) Common tern 125 Shelduck 42 (+ 2 broods of ducklings) Lapwing 10 Tufted duck 25 Oystercatcher 4 Grey heron 32 Swallow 21 Swi [...]
4 June 2012
Todays Sightings
Whooper Pond Mute Swan 2 + 6 cygnets Mallards with ducklings Teal Pond Little Grebe on nest Flood Ground Wigeon 2 Oystercatcher 2 Heron Mallard with families of ducklings [...]
4 June 2012
Wildlife sightings for 4th June 2012
4 Greenshank - still on the scrape 1 Peregrine - over river 1 Kestrel - over south route 45 Sand Martin 60 House Martin 90 Swift - all feeding together low over the resr lagoon a.m [...]
4 June 2012
Todays Sightings
Robbie Garnett Hide Good views of the 8 Cranes here this morning and on and during the day. Holden Tower Avocet 2 Oystercatcher 2 Peregrine 1 Curlew 13 Lapwing 2 chicks Small wad [...]
4 June 2012
Diamond flamingos.
As the UK celebrates 60 years of the reign of H.M. the Queen (incidentally the Patron of WWT), and reflects on her long-term of exemplary service in office, I thought it would be interesting and topical to draw attention to the longevity and tenacity o
3 June 2012
Fluffy ducklings R us.
We always get nervous showing these kinds of photos at WWT Slimbridge, because whilst I know that they are having an extended forty winks after hatch, everyone panics that they are sick! These little Koloa (left to right 1,3,4) did not have an easy time
3 June 2012
Todays Sightings
Whooper Pond Mute Swan 2 + 6 cygnets Mallards with ducklings Teal Pond Little Grebe on nest Flood Ground Wigeon 2 Oystercatcher 2 Heron Mallard with families of ducklings [...]
3 June 2012
Wildlife sightings for 3rd June 2012
4 Greenshank - wader scrape 3 Redshank - scrape and marsh 17 Lapwing - across the reserve (several nesting) 2 Little Ringed Plover - main lake 17 Common Tern - main lake, resr la [...]
3 June 2012
Today's sightings
Cranes- Up to 13 from the presumably all from the Great Crane Project have been present here today, they are mobile and use most of the reserve. Holden Tower/Dumbles edge over high t [...]
3 June 2012
Artist of the month - Lawrence Patterson
Don’t miss our latest wildlife photography exhibition, on show all month in the main corridor. Common whitethroat Lawrence ‘Lol’ Patterson – born and bred in Washington – took up photography as a hobby follo
2 June 2012