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Wildlife sightings for 2nd January 2012
136 Teal - grazing marsh, wader scrape 2 Pintail - grazing marsh 2 Stonechat - grazing marsh 1 Pergrine - over reserve 5 Redwing - flew E Recent bird highlights: Bittern [...]
2 January 2012
Today's sightings
This stunning image of a drake pintail was sent in by Stuart Lewis Send us your photographs If you have any good photographs of our wildlife, we would love to publish them here. send them to j [...]
2 January 2012
New year's day list
Happy New Year to all, the total species count for New Year's Day was 73. With good water levels on the reserve at the moment, there are plenty of waders, wildfowl and raptors. Lar [...]
1 January 2012
Out on the reserve today
Our Tick & Twitch day is gathering steam - we're up to our 64th species for the day - a few highlights below. [...]
1 January 2012
Today's Sightings
Wader Lake - AM - Tide Level: Mid Lapwing - 21 Teal - 72 Shelduck - 17 Mallard - 100 Grey Heron - 1 Redshank - 14 Black-Headed Gull - 12 Hawthorn Wood Gr [...]
1 January 2012
Wildlife sightings for 1st January 2012
2 Pintail - male and female, marsh 1 Bittern - between Dulverton and WWF hides on south side of main lake, best seen from Peacock Tower 1 Peregrine - seen on two separate occasions fast and lo [...]
1 January 2012
Today's sightings
One of the very showy Bitterns taken by JSLeesWWT Send us your photographs If you have any good photographs of our wildlife, we would love to publish them here. send them to james.lees@wwt.org [...]
1 January 2012
Out on the reserve today
Water levels on the reserve are providing an ideal opportunity to witness thousands of grazing and dabbling wildfowl from our Reedbed and Lyle hides. Waders today have been seen mainly from Lyle [...]
31 December 2011
Marsh Harriers
The Marsh Harriers continue to show well at times with up to 5 birds still in the wider area, at least 4 were seen today along with a Hen harrier (prob imm male) which has been seen regularly now for [...]
31 December 2011
Today's bird sightings
Two Slavonian grebes were seen on the estuary at high tide. Other sightings include 125 lapwing, 8 greenshank, 37 curlew, 9 snipe, 3 sparrowhawk, peregrine, 4 little grebe, 2 great crested grebe, 54 s [...]
31 December 2011
Wildlife sightings for 31st December 2011
4 Pintail - 3 male, 1 female, marsh and reservoir lagoon 1 Peregrine - over site 1 Bittern - flew SW 2 Stonechat - marsh Recent bird highlights: Bittern, Peregrine, Jack Sni [...]
31 December 2011
Tack Piece back to its very best
Holden Tower and Robbie Garnett Hide. If you have never seen the Tack Piece at its very best now is a great time to put that right. Two very dry winters and some wet and mild weather over the pa [...]
31 December 2011
Castle Espie 'Here Comes Santa' Prize Winner
Castle Espie Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust (WWT), were delighted to host Santa and his team of helpers last weekend with over 250 children from across the province eagerly waiting to meet the man himself. Families enjoyed a day of magical storytelling,
30 December 2011
New species bring a touch of the exotic this New Year
Sleeping ducks by Mandy Byatt WWT Washington Wetland Centre’s waterbird collection has been given a New Year boost by the arrival of some exotic new species. Colourful paradise shelduck from New Zealand, Northern pi
30 December 2011
Today's Sightings
Wader Lake/AM/Mid Tide Lapwing - 15 Teal - 84 Mallard - 57 Shelduck - 8 Wigeon - 4 Grey Heron - 3 Black Headed Gull - 77 Goosesander - 1 (River) Hawthorn Wood G [...]
30 December 2011