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Today's sightings
Holden Tower/Tack Piece Golden Plover, Dunlin and Lapwing flocks have fluctuated troughout the day. N counts made but plover species present in the many thousands, the Dunlin in hundreds. A very low high tide this afternoon meant that not all birds came i
16 November 2014
Latest Sightings
Barnacle Geese Around 4500 on the reserve, mainly looking north from Farmhouse Tower Whooper Pond Whooper Swan 80 Mute Swan 30 Mallard 140 Tufted Duck 50 Wigeon 100 Teal 10 Gadwall 3 Greylag Goose 1 Canada Goose 50 Folly Pond GREEN-WINGED TEAL ♂ Teal
16 November 2014
Today's Sightings
Time: AM / Tide Level: Mid Wader Lake Teal - 40 Black Headed Gull - 18 Snipe - 18 Redshank - 28 Mallard - 30 Shelduck - 1 Saline Lagoon Teal - 25 Shelduck - 1 Grey Heron - 1 Saline Lagoon Teal - 25 Shelduck - 1 Grey Heron - 1 Hawthorn Hide G
16 November 2014
Wildlife sightings for 16th November 2014
1 Bittern - N shore main lake (seen from both the Peacock Tower and later from the Headley Hide) 1 Jack Snipe - feeding on main lake island NW of the WWF hide 2 Sparrowhawk 1 Peregrine - Charing Cross hospital ledge 1 Fieldfare - entrance lake 6 Redwing -
16 November 2014
Snow Goose
The Lesser Snow Goose (white morph) which has been roaming the area with Pink-footed Geese for the last week put in an appearance when it flew North over the reserve early afternoon. The bird was seen out on the Ribble with Pink's yesterday so hopefully w
15 November 2014
Festival of swans
Water rail at ringing demonstration Our Festival of swans weekend is here and we were a bit worried about the fog this morning but it did encourage lots of our whooper swans to stay a bit longer on the lagoon than nor
15 November 2014
Todays sightings
Water rail being ringed Bird ringing station: Water rail - 1 Great tit - 8 Blue tit - 11 Goldcrest - 2 Wren - 2 Robin - 1 House sparrow - 2 Blackbird - 2 Dunnock - 3 Chaffinch - 2 Goldfinch - 3 (BTO are back again tom
15 November 2014
Wildlife sightings for 15th November 2014
1 Bittern - flew into reedbed 1 Pintail - reservoir lagoon 3 Water Rail - reedbed, South route 3 Redwing - sheltered lagoon 2 Stonechat - grazing marsh 3 Chiffchaff - wildside, sheltered lagoon 1 Short-Eared Owl - seen flying over the reedbed before settl
15 November 2014
Latest Sightings
Barnacle Geese: 5,000 around the reserve. Whooper Swans: 95 High tide: 18:18pm 7.4m Whooper Pond Whooper Swan 95 Mute Swan 43 Mallard 190 Tufted Duck 58 Wigeon 152 Gadwall 1 Teal 8 Canada Geese 25 Folly Pond Green-winged Teal 1 ♂ Teal 600 Malla
15 November 2014
Today's Sightings
Wader Lake/Time - AM/Tide - Mid Redshank - 34 Teal - 34 Gadwall - 4 Saline Lagoon Heron - 1 Shelduck - 1 Teal - 22 Curlew - 1 Other Birds Goldfinch - Wader Lake Path - 6 Hawthorn Wood Robin - 1 Chaffinch - 5 Great Tit - 13 Blue Tit - 4 Coal Tit - 2 Greenf
15 November 2014
Raptor fest!
The Zeiss Hide GOSHAWK 1 Adult female Buzzard 2 American Green-winged Teal 1 male Teal 700 Shoveler 80 Ruff 6 Dunlin 50 Black-tailed Godwit 300 Spotted Redshank 1 Water Rail 2 The Holden Tower Marsh Harrier 2 Peregrine 2 Merlin 1 Kestrel 1 Buzzard 2 Gold
15 November 2014
Todays sightings
A beautiful sunset for the 3:30 feed a fantastic sight seeing the swans fly in after their feed on the fields during the day. Great views of a barn owl gliding around the reedbed to the right of the main observatory hunting for voles 8 cranes flew over
14 November 2014
Wildlife sightings for 14th November 2014
1 Bittern - flew across the main lake to the N shore 1 Jack Snipe - marsh (to the left of the main channel) 15 Snipe - marsh, scrape, main lake 9 Reed Bunting 17 Meadow Pipit - flew SW/W November bird highlights: Bittern, Jack Snipe, Iceland Gull,
14 November 2014
Wildlife sightings
Continuing wet weather has created new feeding opportunities for increasing Snipe numbers. Around 40 were roosting and feeding in front of the Lapwing hide at the beginning of the week. Teal numbers are low with many dispersing throughout the valley and S
14 November 2014
Latest Sightings
Barnacle Geese: 5,000 around the reserve. Whooper Swans: 73 High tide: 17:07pm 7.6m Whooper Pond Whooper Swan 73 Mute Swan 44 Mallard 190 Tufted Duck 51 Wigeon 172 Gadwall 2 Teal 15 Canada Geese 100 Greylag Geese 3 Folly Pond Green-winged Tea
14 November 2014