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Breeding success for avocets after 2012 flooding washout
Come see our new chicks and their proud parents at WWT Welney Wetland Centre [yframe url='http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWXxVVYPwQY'] The first brood of avocet chicks has hatched on the Ouse Washes, at WWT Welney Wetland Centre. The proud parents are t
28 May 2013
Tuesday 28th May
Still awaiting Osprey hatching (viewed via the CCTV link), but much restless activity from the adults, with plenty of new material brought to the nest. Barn Owls still on two chicks, three eggs to go. Two Little Stints dropped onto The Folly Pond briefly
28 May 2013
Restless birds on the nest
There has been a lot of coming and going by the male this morning bringing in more sticks, pieces of bark and clumps of rushes. The bark has been neatly arranged by the female along one side and she has stuck the large clods of juncus rushes at the front
28 May 2013
Today's wildlife highlights
Bird sightings spoonbill, 16 whimbrel, 98 curlew, 148 black tailed godwit, 16 little egret, 2 sedge warbler, 30 reed warbler, lesser whitethroat, whitethroat, 4 chiffchaff, 3 blackcap, cetti’s warbler, 4 little grebe, 2 house martin, 7 swallow, great sp
28 May 2013
Nesting cranes and avocets
Rushy common crane 2 avocet 4 (nest scraping) little gull 1st summer 08.30 oystercatcher 2 + chicks Holden Tower common crane 4 little egret 2 great crested grebe 2 with young (on long ground pool) cettis warbler reed warbler oystercatchers 3 Estuary grey
28 May 2013
Wildlife sightings for 28th May 2013
4 Redshank chicks - scrape 4+ Lapwing chicks - scrape, marsh 1 Shelduck - scrape (arrived off the river at 1750hrs) 1 Mandarin - scrape 9 Common Tern - main lake, resr lagoon 1 Yellow Wagtail - marsh 4 Swallow - feeding over main lake after rain a.m. 1 W
28 May 2013
Curlew Sandpiper
The change in weather had the desired effect today, the rain forcing a few migrant waders down onto the reserve, the best being a breeding plumaged Curlew Sandpiper which was found early afternoon from Ron Barker hide with 2 Dunlin, a further group of 4 D
27 May 2013
May 27th 2013
A cold, wet and windy day so far. Paerhaps this will push in a migrating skua or two as the spring tide rises towards 2.30pm? Otherwise not a great deal to report, with precious little singing or displaying in the attrocious conditions. Things very much a
27 May 2013
Today's highlights
spoonbill, 90 black tailed godwit, 8 whimbrel, 54 curlew, 9 little egret, sedge warbler, 30 reed warbler, lesser whitethroat, whitethroat, 10 chiffchaff, willow warbler, 5 blackcap, 2 cetti’s warbler, 2 little grebe, peregrine, sparrowhawk and buzzard.
27 May 2013
Todays Sightings
Wader Lake Time/AM Tide/Low Avocet - 10 & 3 chicks Oystercatcher - 4 Lapwing - 4 & 2 chicks Common Tern - 48 & 2 chicks Shelduck - 20 Tufted duck - 38 Little Ringed Plover - 1 Redshank - 1 Grey Heron - 19 Mute Swan - 2 Shovel
27 May 2013
BioBlitz!
On Saturday 15 and Sunday 16 June we will be holding our first ever BioBlitz here at WWT Llanelli Wetland Centre. A BioBlitz is a collaborative race, where members of the public and expert naturalists come together to find, identify and record as many di
27 May 2013
Wildlife sightings for 27th May 2013
2 Shoveler - pair, scrape 4 Redshank chicks - scrape. The fourth has hatched since yesterday. 3 Redshank adults - scrape 9 Common Tern - main lake and reservoir lagoon 1 Sedge Warbler - north end of grazing marsh 1 Willow Warbler - singing sheltered lagoo
27 May 2013
Has the Cranes egg hatched ?
Rushy The 24 hour watch on the Cranes nest has had tantalizing glimpses of what might be the chick but no really good sighting yet. Lets hope today is the day. A watch is being mounted from the Peng Observatory but also check from Infocus and the wooden R
27 May 2013
Who decides what a flamingo group does?
I know that it seems like the majority of my diary entries are about the bad weather and I can assure folks that I am not some wannabe weather forecaster, but hey, let's try and turn the rain, wind and hail into something positive and interesting co
26 May 2013
Sightings 26th May 2013
Our Barn Owls, visible on CCTV at the centre have hatched the first of their 5 eggs, similarly we anticipate the CCTV'd Ospreys to begin hatching any time now, maybe today, though no sign of a chick at time of writing. Elsewhere the reserve is fairly qui
26 May 2013