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Today's sightings
Holden Tower Lapwing and Golden Plover over 1000 of each Ruff 4 Little Stint 2+ Marsh Harrier 2 on/off all day Peregrine 2 Curlew 100+ (40 feeding in Tack Pice) Pink-footed Goose 1 juv in Tack Piece with Greylags Crane 2 Fieldfare-30 in hedges Chiffchaff
9 November 2014
Today's wildlife sightings (first bittern of winter)
Millennium Wetlands The first bittern of the winter was seen flying over the Deep Lake late morning. Other counts include; 2 kingfisher, 13 water rail, 5 shoveler, 20 pintail, 10 tufted duck, 6 little grebe, 2 grey heron, 5 cetti’s warbler and 2 chiffch
9 November 2014
Wildlife sightings for 9th November 2014
1 Bittern - main lake north shore 1 Pintail - marsh 6 Mandarin - world wetlands 46 Lapwing - main lake 346 Black-headed Gull - main lake and reservoir lagoon 2 Stonechat - marsh 3 Redpoll - entrance area 1 Redwing - entrance area Also: 1 Red Admira
9 November 2014
Today's wildlife sightings
Wader lake (AM, low tide) Shelduck - 2 Teal - 36 Common snipe - 1 Grey heron - 2 Saline lagoon Wood pigeon - 42 Shelduck - 1 Tufted duck - 4 Hawthorn Wood feeding station Nuthatch - 2 Coal tit - 4 Great tit - 4 Blue tit - 10 Bullfinch - 6 Ch
9 November 2014
Latest Sightings
Whooper Pond Whooper Swan 30 Mute Swan 30 Mallard 100 Tufted Duck 50 Wigeon 80 Teal 10 Gadwall 2 Greylag Goose 3 Canada Goose 50 Folly Pond GREEN-WINGED TEAL ♂ Teal 100 Wigeon 100 Shoveler 10 Black-tailed Godwit 60 Snipe 2 Redshank 1 Avenue Tower Tea
9 November 2014
Wet pink birds
Winter seems to have arrived back with an icy blast and the weekend's squalls of rain have been battering the Slimbridge flamingos from all directions. The flamingos have remained unperturbed however and have been out and about in all weathers; in fact on
8 November 2014
Recent Sightings
The 5 Avocet were still present yesterday but no sign today, but a single Dunlin was present. Still good numbers of Ruff with at least 50 being counted today. Good numbers of Pink-footed Geese still in the area with up to 17,000 roosting on the Mere overn
8 November 2014
Merlin and more!
The Holden Tower Merlin 1 female showed well for a long period Peregrine 1 Marsh Harrier 1 Buzzard 2 Golden plover 1300 Lapwing 1600 Dunlin 700 Little Stint 1 Curlew 30 White-fronted Goose 13 The Tack Piece Teal 400 The Rushy Pintail 30 Pochard 60 The Zei
8 November 2014
Today's Sightings
Wader Lake/Time - AM/Tide - Low Curlew - 382 Redshank - 6 Lapwing - 4 Black Tailed Godwit - 2 Common Snipe - 16 Teal - 22 Grey Heron - 6 Saline Lagoon Grey Heron - 2 Long Tailed Tit - 16 Robin - 1 Other Birds Tawny Owl - Car park & North Wood Great Sp
8 November 2014
Wildlife sightings for 8th November 2014
1 Bittern - R.H.S of the observatory when looking from Peacock tower 2 Pintail - grazing marsh 3 Common Gull - main lake 2 Stonechat - grazing marsh 1 Redpoll - entrance lake November bird highlights: Jack Snipe, Little Gull, Tawny Owl, Skylark, Water Pip
8 November 2014
Latest Sightings
Barnacle Geese: 7,000 around the reserve. Whooper Swans: 34 around the reserve. High tide: 12:51pm 9.6m Whooper Pond Whooper Swan 34 Mute Swan 38 Mallard 140 Tufted Duck 40 Wigeon 115 Shoveler 5 Canada Geese 80 Greylag Geese 3 Folly Pond Gree
8 November 2014
Have a snap-happy day at WWT Martin Mere!
Popular bird watching festival returns in November, with some very special guests Whether you’re a photographer, or just love the outdoors, there’ll be something for everyone, as the eagerly awaited North West Bird Watching Festival returns to WWT Mar
7 November 2014
Rough-legged buzzard and more
Rough-legged buzzard - 1 (to the back of Lady Fen) Whooper swan - 2000+ Bewick's swan - 20+
7 November 2014
Wildlife sightings for 7th November 2014
1 Jack Snipe - to the left of the main channel (marsh) 2 Redpoll - wildside 4 Skylark - flew over W+SW November bird highlights: Jack Snipe, Little Gull, Tawny Owl, Skylark, Water Pipit, Stonechat, Redwing, Redpoll. With autumn migration at its hei
7 November 2014
Latest Sightings
Barnacle Geese: 7,000 around the reserve. Whooper Swans: 38 around the reserve. High tide: 12:11pm 9.6m Whooper Pond Whooper Swan 38 Mute Swan 38 Mallard 140 Tufted Duck 40 Wigeon 115 Shoveler 2 Gadwall 1♂ Teal 17 Canada Geese 81 Greylag Ge
7 November 2014