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Meet Santa and his huskies at Britain’s favourite nature reserve
Father Christmas and the huskies Get into the festive mood at London Wetland Centre’s Winter Wonderland weekend! Children will be thrilled to hop aboard for a husky sleigh ride and to visit Santa in his grotto, and
Ferruginous duck
Ferruginous duck - 1 female, in amongst the pochard in front of the main observatory and coming in for the swan feeds with them, giving nice close views. Large flocks of lapwing - in fields next to the visitor centre and flying over the reserve this morni
Today's sightings
Long-billed Dowitcher (top right) with Black-tailed Godwits Image by MJMcGill The godwit flock have been highly mobile this week but still prefer to roost on South Lake. Other regular spots have been the approach road fields and the Tack Piece. Black-ta
Sleeping beauties attract visitors to nature reserve
Lucius and family rest after long flight taken by Colin Butters A family of rare wild swans is enjoying some much needed nap time after their epic flight to Slimbridge Wetland Centre. There was much excitement as Bewi
Wildlife sightings for 8th November 2012
1 Bittern - feeding along N shore main lake (0800-0920hrs) 1 Peregrine - eating small prey on island infront of main lake observatory 1 Sparrowhawk - female, hunting over marsh 29 Fieldfare - flew NW+W 2 Chiffchaff - wildside, with Long-tailed Tits 2 S
1500 Whooper Swan
New highest count of Whooper Swan for this autumn with 1500 birds this morning. It never fails to impress when you see groups of these birds dropping in low over the trees before landing on the Mere. Around 10,000 Pink-footed Geese coming into roost, with
Wildlife sightings for 7th November 2012
2 Bearded Tit - grazing marsh 3 Goldeneye - flew N 1 juv Marsh Harrier - flew NW 1 2nd winter Caspian Gull - main lake 2 Yellow Legged Gull 111 Redwing - flew NW-W 108 Fieldfare - flew NW 5 Chiffchaff 2 Stonechat 3 Brambling - flew NW 16 Crossbill - fle
BBC Radio Lancashire come along to visit us
John Gillmore from BBC Radio Lancashire came in to do a live show between 1pm and 4pm today - if you tune in now you can hear Andy Bunting from In Focus being interviewed about our reserve list. Other interviews have included our Marketing Manager talking
Latest Sightings
Sightings from the 4th November have included: Less than 5,000 Brent are left on the Lough. 14 Whooper Swans seen on the Estuary. Peninsula Saltmarsh had 17 Grey Plover, 7 Dunlin, 12 Knot, 3 Curlew, 2 Redshanks, 2 Little Egrets and 20 Oystercatchers. Kin
Latest Sightings
Whooper Pond Whooper Swan 40 Wigeon 103 Teal 10 Tufted Duck 677 Canada Goose 70 Greylag Goose 10 Corner Field Teal 200 Wigeon 100 Black-tailed Godwit 12 Lapwing 40 Teal Pond Teal 10 Wigeon 15 Gadwall 1 Tufted Duck 1 Flood Ground Teal 1400 Wigeon 350 Whoop
Todays Sightings
WADER LAKE/AM/HIGH TIDE Wigeon - 2 Teal - 36 Common Snipe - 2 Black-headed Gull - 41 SALINE LAGOON/AM/HIGH TIDE Great Black-backed Gull - 6 Mallard - 15 OTHER BIRDS/AM Siskin (Wader Lake Path) - 6 Kestrel (Forgotten Meadow) - 1 Sparrowhawk (
Today's sightings
The Entrance Fields LONG-BILLED DOWITCHER 1 Adult showing very well close to the road Ruff 1 Black-tailed Godwit 170 White-fronted Goose 15 The Zeiss Hide BITTERN 1 Spotted Redshank 2 Redshank 10 Black-tailed Godwit 15 Teal 800 Pintail 20 The South Lake C
Todays sightings
Ferruginous duck taken yesterday by Ken Rowe Ferruginous duck - 1 (female in front of main observatory) Rough-legged buzzard - 1 Marsh harrier - 3
An update on the new arrivals.
Can you spot the Martin Mere birds?! A quick installment on the new greater flamingos that arrived at WWT Slimbridge from WWT Martin Mere last week. The birds have all settled in well and have been integrated into the new flock. Flamingo transportation c
Warmer but wetter
Today's sightings page isn't packed with reports. I guess many potential visitors (people) looked out of the window into the squally rain showers and decided to give it a miss! It's worth noting that it's possible to rack up over 60 species of wild bird a