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Little Egret
A Little Egret seen from Harrier Hide in the morning was the best sighting of the day, otherwise an immature male Marsh Harrier has joined the female that has been around on and off for a while now. Other raptors included Peregrine which yet again decided
3 June 2013
It's a BioBlitz on June 14-16
WWT Arundel Wetland Centre is holding a BioBlitz from June 14-16. BioBlitz is the latest ‘buzzword’ in native conservation – it is an intense period of biological surveying in an attempt to record all the living species within a designated area. G
3 June 2013
First for the year: butterflies spotted
Today we have seen two butterflies spotted, the first of the year: Common blue and Small Copper. These are beautiful butterflies.
3 June 2013
June brings sunshine and nesting Caribbeans.
There's a lot of activity going on in the Caribbena flamingo enclosure at WWT Slimbridge this week. The bad weather of late is long forgotten by the flamingos and this lovely warm spell has seen the Caribbean flamingos start to lay eggs. The flamingo bre
3 June 2013
A fantastic Downy Duckling Week
A big thank you to everyone who came along and enjoyed Downy Duckling Week last week. We had a fantastic 9 days with 108 memberships signed up and a great 10,176 visitors in total. Everyone seemed to enjoy the event and all the talks and walks were really
3 June 2013
Flounder for lunch
After the second hatching on Saturday things look to be going well on the osprey nest. Both chicks are being fed and the second chick is now looking stronger and easily capable of lifting it's head up to be fed tiny morsels of fish. Today our male osprey
3 June 2013
Young crane pair loses chick
WWT staff inspect the abandoned nest. Eggshell is visible in the foreground (c) WWT The first wild crane egg in Western Britain for four centuries has hatched at Slimbridge Wetland Centre in Gloucestershire. But sadly
3 June 2013
Out on the reserve today
Crane - 2 Hobby - 1 Red Kite - 1 Cuckoo - 2
3 June 2013
Today's sightings
Zeiss Hide The Red Necked Phalarope is still here and showing well, two Cranes were close to the hide among the rushes and a further 3 in the Bottom New Piece among the buttercups all looking Great. Three Avocets and 1 Redshank are the only waders, Sheldu
3 June 2013
Peregrine
A Peregrine was again seen taking young Avocet chicks from Ron Barker hide, this has become a regular event in recent years on site, with the young Avocet chicks wandering far from the parents they make easy pickings for the Peregrine, not to mention the
2 June 2013
Wildlife sightings for 2nd June 2013
10 Mute Swan cygnets - 5 on main lake, 5 on sheltered lagoon 1 Kestrel 4 Redshank chicks still on scrape 2 Redshank adults - scrape 1 Spotted Flycatcher - south route near WWF hide Recent bird highlights: Peregrine, Red Kite, Marsh Harrier, Buzzard
2 June 2013
Red Necked Phalarope
Rushy Still great here, some Crane activity but the Avocets now look good with 3 pairs apparently incubating. The Oystercatchers pair have at least 2 young and there was 9 Black Tailed Godwit feeding here as well. Holden Tower A little quiet here but a Gr
2 June 2013
Cuckoo
Bird of the day was a Cuckoo that was seen on a couple of occasions from the Janet Kear hide. A Grey Wagtail was seen around the Mere today and the pair of Common Terns spent most of the day around the Mere and were seen nest scraping. The 2 Ruff are stil
1 June 2013
Wildlife sightings for 1st June 2013
10 Mute Swan Cygnets - 2 broods sheltered lagoon, main lake 1 Shelduck - main lake 7 Common Tern - main lake and reservoir lagoon rafts 4 Redshank chicks - wader scrape 2 Redshank - wader scrape 1 Yellow Legged Gull - 1st summer main lake 1 Hobby - hunt
1 June 2013
New chick doing well
Both birds on the nest at 12 noon today in the sunshine. Still one hungry looking chick and one unhatched egg. All looking good,the chick does indeed look stronger today. Thankfully we have warm sunny weather and it looks to be settled over the weekend
31 May 2013