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Out on the reserve today
Water vole at WWT Welney Spotted redshank - 1 Greenshank - 2 Dunlin - 12 Avocet - 49 Ruff - 38 Black-tailed godwit - 200 Common sandpiper - 1 Golden plover - 1 Garganey - 1 One very late fieldfare! Water voles are get
25 April 2013
New for the Year
The year list is ticking (pun intended) along nicely at the moment with the addition of Jay, seen next to the in focus shop feeders. A very unusual sighting there, although birds are recorded annually in autumn flying over the reserve. Still a 'wagtail fe
24 April 2013
Todays Sightings
WADER LAKE/AM/LOW TIDE Avocet - 9 Little Ringed Plover - 2 Redshank - 4 Lapwing - 6 Grey Heron - 24 Gadwall - 4 Tufted Duck - 10 Shelduck - 14 Greylag - 15 SALINE LAGOON/AM/LOW TIDE Little Ringed Plover - 1 Shelduck - 8 OTHER BIRDS/AM Chiffchaff
24 April 2013
Rushy
Rushy Oystercatcher 2 BH Gull 120 Meditteranean Gull 1 2nd Sum Kingfisher Hide Kingfisher 1 pair Robbie Garnet Peregrine 1 (Woodpigeon Kill) Holden Tower Lapwing 13 pairs Peregrine 1 Oystercatcher 2 Long Ground Pool Arctic Tern 9 Great Crested Grebe Oyste
24 April 2013
Latest Sightings
Folly Pond Mute Swan 7 Teal 10 Wigeon 5 Redshank 1 Black-tailed Godwit 17 Oystercatcher 3 Shelduck 2 Flood Ground Teal 10 Wigeon 5 Black-headed Gull 2 Oystercatcher 2 Tufted Duck 10 Gadwall 2 Avenue Tower Golden Plover 1300+ Redshank Curlew Lapwing Dunlin
24 April 2013
Wildlife sightings for 24th April 2013
1 Grey Plover - main lake (1300hrs) 1 Little Ringed Plover - main lake 1 Curlew - flew over scrape NE 4 Redshank - wader scrape, main lake 1 Buzzard - flew over NW (1115hrs) 1 Red Kite - flew over scrape E (1520hrs) 2 Common Tern - main lake 1 Garden War
24 April 2013
Grasshopper Warbler!
We have just heard the first Grasshopper Warbler of the year behind our playarea, a sure sign summer is on it's way!
23 April 2013
Arctic Tern and Green Sandpiper
Arctic Tern along Boat House Sluice and Green Sandpiper on Woodend Marsh late afternoon both new for the year. At least 4 male Yellow Wagtail, 15+ White Wagtail, a few Pied Wagtail and 2 Wheatear on the reserve today. Over 100 hirundine feeding over the
23 April 2013
Kingfishers delight the Slimbridge Visitors
A pair of kingfishers which are building a nest in a bank are delighting visitors to WWT Slimbridge. The brightly coloured birds are easy to see from the Kingfisher hide and visitors have been treated to views of them excavating a nest hole and feeding. D
23 April 2013
Nene families struggle this Spring.
Could mum (standing) look any more knackered? The poor thing sat on her nest for 28 days of hardship this February/March, one of the coldest extended Springs we have seen at WWT Slimbridge for many a year... Thankfully her hubby BBZ can now take the r
23 April 2013
Our new artist-in-residence will create a real buzz!
Cath Hodsman working at her easel An artist who celebrates the beauty of the smaller things in life is WWT Slimbridge Wetland Centre’s new artist-in-residence. Cotswold artist Cath Hodsman has spent years sketching
23 April 2013
Todays Sightings
Wader Lake/Low Tide/AM Avocet - 10 Little Ringed Plover - 3 Lapwing - 6 Oystercatcher - 2 Redshank - 11 Grey Heron - 22 Saline Lagon Shelduck - 7 Other Birds Chiffchaff - 0 Willow Warbler - 5 Sedge Warbler - 5 Blackcap - 4 Whitethroat - 3 Hawthorn Wood Re
23 April 2013
April images by Tom Clare
Tom, our reserve warden, has been out taking photographs in the last few days of the April wildlife, fauna and butterflies on the reserve. See a selection of images below. Barn Owl, fox footprint, reed bunting, dunlin (black bellied wader), lapwing, s
23 April 2013
Wildlife sightings for 23rd April 2013
1 Common Sandpiper - main lake 4 Redshank - wader scrape 2 Common Tern - main lake 11 Swallow - flew N, NW 2 Yellow Wagtail - flew off from wader scrape 1 Garden Warbler - sheltered lagoon 2 Whitethroat - south route 3 Reed Warbler - main lake, south rout
23 April 2013
Today's sightings
Arctic Terns still showing well today, Copyright JSLees WWT Arctic Terns Still present for their 6th day feeding on various pools around site, Best spot is the South Lake. A total of 73 Arctic Terns have been counted today. The Zeiss Hide Avocet (8) Th
23 April 2013