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Bovine pedicures
The first customer If we humans need our nails trimmed we would normally head off to the spa but for our cattle that's not really an option. Yesterday some of our cows needed their feet trimming, so a very specialised
25 July 2014
Helping to save the world's rarest bird
Floriot at WWT Martin Mere Wetland Centre The man charged with daily care of the world’s rarest bird, the Madagascar pochard, is at WWT Martin Mere Wetland Centre this month for intensive training with some o
25 July 2014
Latest Sightings
The Teal Pond Hide is currently closed as we are replacing it with a shiny new hide over the next few weeks. Sorry for any inconvenience. Whooper Pond Mallard 69 Mute Swan 2 + 8 cygnets Oystercatcher 1 Snipe 1 Moorhen 8 House Martins Swallows Foll
25 July 2014
Wildlife sightings for 25th July 2014
1 Common Sandpiper - main lake 2 Little Ringed Plover + 3 chicks - wader scrape 1 Little Egret - flew off wader scrape heading West 2 Kingfisher - middle reedbed channel, wader scrape 20 House Martin - over reserve 2 Swallow - over reserve 40+ Goldfinch
25 July 2014
Today's sightings
The Zeiss Hide 87 Dunlin 5 Snipe 8 Avocet 10 Shoveler 1 Yellow Wagtail The South Lake 3 Ruff 109 Black-tailed Godwit 28 Redshank 2 Green Sandpiper The Rushy 3 Green Sandpiper 6 Avocet The Tack Piece 2 Crane
25 July 2014
Out on the reserve today
Comma butterfly Hobby Wood sandpiper - 2 Green sandpiper - 5 Greenshank - 1 Black-tailed godwit - 8 Avocet Dragonflies Brown hawker Southern Hawker Emperor Dragonfly Common Darter Ruddy Dater Butterflies Peacock Comma
24 July 2014
Med Gull & Southern Hawker
Hot on the heels of the Mallard which has been visiting the shop for the last 4 days, todays special visitor turned out to be a fantastic Southern Hawker which spent a short while in the In Focus shop yesterday and posed for a great photographic opportuni
24 July 2014
PENtland staff live up to their name with volunteer task
Staff from Pentland Distribution Services (PDS) got to grips with an unused bird pen to help spruce up the stream area at WWT Washington. The PDS volunteers worked alongside Daniel Barker, our grounds and facilities manager, to safely remove the large-sca
24 July 2014
Todays Sightings
Rushy Avocet 4 adults 3 well grown young and 2 new ones. Green Sandpiper 11 Shelduck several broods. Pied Wagtail 11 Robbie Garnett Green Sandpiper 11 Little Ringed Plover 3 Crane 2 Holden Tower Yellow Legged Gull 3 Yellow Wagtail 1 (with cattle) Linnet
24 July 2014
Today's Sightings
WADER LAKE/A.M/LOW TIDE Black-Tailed Godwit - 6 Lapwing - 63 Oystercatcher - 4 Common Snipe - 2 Black-Headed Gull - 23 Redshank - 6 Common Tern - 49 Grey Heron - 8 Gadwall - 4 Shoveler - 2 SALINE LAGOON/A.M/LOW TIDE Teal - 6 Common Sandpiper - 1 &n
24 July 2014
Let's hear it for the boys!
Well having set aside a whole post last month in order to celebrate the efforts of the girls, let's re-dress the balance... Just look at this male Hooded Merganser. No male sawbill puts quite as much effort into the vanity department as the Hoodie. The sk
23 July 2014
Helping to save the world's rarest bird
Floriot Randrianarimangason The man charged with daily care of the world’s rarest bird, the Madagascar pochard, is at WWT Washington Wetland Centre next week for intensive training with some of WWT and the world’s
23 July 2014
Visitors can enjoy more retail therapy at WWT Slimbridge
Donald Duck opens the new Slimbridge shop Visitors celebrated the opening of the new WWT Slimbridge Wetland Centre shop with a celebrity loved by all ages Donald Duck declared the new shop open and cut the ribbon on M
23 July 2014
Wildlife sightings for 24th July 2014
1 Yellow Wagtail - flew S over main lake 1 Common Sandpiper - main lake 1 Hobby - over scrape, then the marsh 1 Kingfisher - resr lagoon 7 Common Tern - main lake and resr lagoon July bird highlights: Hobby, Red Kite, Black-Tailed Godwit, Green S
23 July 2014
Hobby and Garganey
Another good day on site with reports of Hobby and fem type Garganey from the Harrier Hide this afternoon, also a Little Egret there. Other birds on view from here included up to 4 Wigeon, family groups of Tufted Duck and Pochard, also 4 Little Grebe (2 a
22 July 2014