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White-fronts drop in
Six European White-fronted Geese dropped in at 2.15pm onto Plover Field with around 100 Pink-footed Geese. Also 4 Barnacle Geese with Pink's. An early morning count had 3,600 Pink-footed Geese [...]
20 November 2011
Today's wild bird sightings
c300 wigeon 61 gadwall teal shoveler shelduck mallard tufted duck pochard 94 greylag goose peregrine sparrowhawk buzzard 4 green [...]
20 November 2011
Todays Sightings
Whooper Pond Whooper Swan 31 Mute Swan 10 Wigeon 30 Tufted Duck 40 Teal 3 Pintail 1 Folly Pond GREEN-WINGED TEAL 1 Teal 430 Wigeon 320 Snipe 2 Shoveler 15 Pintail 3 B [...]
20 November 2011
Wildlife sightings for 20th November 2011
1 Bittern - flushed from west corner of reservoir lagoon, went E along reed edge 1 Shelduck - main lake 1 Pintail - main lake 1 Kingfisher - in coniferous forest exhibit of world wetlands [...]
20 November 2011
Today's sightings WeBS Count
WeBS (Wetland Bird Survey) count Day A full count of all the wetland birds undertaken today. Wildfowl counts below. Little Grebe 4 Great Crested Grebe 1 Cormorant 25 Little Egret 3 Gre [...]
20 November 2011
What’s the trick to counting flocks of birds?
Volunteers and staff will spend this Monday, November 21, spotting and recording the hundreds of waterbirds that migrate to WWT Arundel in winter. Staff and visitors at all nine WWT wetland reserves will be taking part in the annual Wetland Bird Sur
19 November 2011
Ho-ho-ho Huskies!
Start the festive season with a visit to see Santa and the huggable huskies during Winter Wonderland Weekend, December 3-4 at WWT Arundel Wetland Centre. Come and meet these friendly dogs of the north. These gorgeous sled dogs will give children the chanc
19 November 2011
Some familiar faces
This week we've had local media visiting, filming the swans return to Welney and the spectacle at dusk (as it is at its best at the moment). They got some good footage of hundreds and hundreds of swans, whoopers and Bewick's feeding in the arable lan
19 November 2011
Out on the reserve today
Plenty of whooper swans and a few Bewick's at this morning's swan's awake event, although the foggy conditions didn't help, but it did keep the swans in a bit longer than if it had bee [...]
19 November 2011
Todays sightings
Wader Lake AM High Tide Teal 55 Mallard 11 Shelduck 7 Widgeon 3 Gadwall 5 Shovler 3 Redshank 38 Mute Swan (River) 2 Adults 1 Juvenile Cormorant (River) 5 Goosan [...]
19 November 2011
Short-eared Owl and other birds
Another calm day packed with activity. A Short-eared Owl was hunting from 3.30pm. Three Marsh Harrier, 2 Peregrine, Kestrel, 2 Sparrowhawk and at least 4 Common Buzzard with two seen fighting with tal [...]
19 November 2011
Wildlife sightings for 19th November 2011
1 Shelduck - main lake 1 Pintail - main lake 1 Bittern - main lake 1 Peregrine 6 Water Rail - all seen 16 Common Snipe 4 Collared Dove - entrance area 1 Kingfisher - scrape [...]
19 November 2011
Today's sightings
The Zeiss Hide BITTERN 1 MARSH HARRIER 1 Dunlin 26 Black-tailed Godwit 81 Snipe 2 Redshank 47 Teal 650 Cetti's Warbler 2 Water Rail 1 The Rushy Bewick's Swan 76 [...]
19 November 2011
Hello Seren!
A very special little bird made an understated entrance this week. You may have read about the bizarre transferral of one very special egg to Llanelli back in the summer... This egg contained the hopefully healthy embryo of a Lesser flamingo, and it despe
18 November 2011
Good view of goosander
Last night on clearance I spotted a great bird on site - a male goosander swimming right in front of Paddy's Hide, as I was counting the curlew roost (670 birds btw!). At Washington, goosander are normally found on the river from late autumn/winter, so
18 November 2011