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Today's sightings
Visitor centre Kingfisher - 1 flew across the front pond between the car park and visitor centre Water rail - 1 Pond behind visitor centre
24 October 2014
Memories of 40 years
We are asking our visitors to tell us their favourite memories of the last 40 years at Martin Mere. Below are some of the memories we have recieved - please complete a potcard next time you are at the centre.
24 October 2014
Today's Sightings
Wader Lake/Time - AM/Tide - Mid Black Tailed Godwit - 4 Common Snipe - 2 Teal - 27 Grey Heron - 2 Saline Lagoon Curlew Grey Heron Teal Wigeon Other Birds Grey Wagtail - Gully - 1 Redwing - Hawthorn Wood - 12 Jay - Site Count - 6 Reed Bunting - Wet Wood -
24 October 2014
Today's sightings
Zeiss Hide 2 Little Stint 109 Dunlin 3 Spotted Redshank Greenshank 7 Ruff 3 Snipe 8 Avocet 153 Black-tailed Godwit 900 Teal The Holden Tower 60 Linnet 2 Stonechat Peregrine Little Stint 40 Dunlin 4 White-fronted Goose 70 Shelduck 3 little Egret The South
24 October 2014
Latest Sightings
Barnacle Geese: 7,000 around the reserve. Whooper Swans: 24 around the reserve. Whooper Pond Whooper Swan 24 Mute Swan 2 + 8 cygnets Mallard 250 Tufted Duck 50 Wigeon 60 Shoveler 9 Gadwall 1♂ Teal 5 Canada Geese 80 Folly Pond Mute Swan 3 Gree
24 October 2014
Wildlife sightings for 24th October 2014
1 Bittern - main lake spotted from Headley hide 1 Pintail - reservoir lagoon 2 Mandarin - World wetlands 1 Green Sandpiper - main lake 1 Redshank - calling from the grazing marsh 14 Snipe - grazing marsh, main lake 2 Stonechat - grazing marsh 2 Siskin -
24 October 2014
Today's sightings
Lyle hide Slavonian grebe - 1 Great crested grebe - 2
23 October 2014
Latest Sightings
Been off the web for a few days but plenty of activity since the weekend although no major rarities on the reserve post ex Hurricane Gonzalo, or if there is they haven't been found yet... It still appears that big numbers of Pink-footed Geese are coming i
23 October 2014
High tides should flood lagoon
Saline lagoon We're expecting high tides of more than 5 metres from this afternoon until Sunday, meaning the River Wear should flood into the saline lagoon. This is never guaranteed ('tis nature after all!) but if you
23 October 2014
Essential habitat work underway
An example of Canadian pond weed Work is underway to tackle an invasive plant species which is suffocating some of WWT Washington's pond life. We are draining the ponds on Forgotten Meadow (en route to Hawthorn Wood h
23 October 2014
Today's bird sightings
British Steel hide / estuary 3 spotted redshank, 16 greenshank, 717 black tailed godwit, 3 bar tailed godwit, 10 redshank, 18 dunlin, 191 knot, 14 lapwing, kingfisher, little grebe, 90 shoveler, 20 teal, 50 wigeon, 8 dark bellied brent goose and sparrowha
23 October 2014
Today's Sightings
Wader Lake Teal - 32 Black-tailed Godwit - 2 Moorhen - 2 Saline Lagoon Grey Heron - 1 Hawthorn Wood Bullfinch - 2 Coal Tit - 2 Pheasant - 11 Other Birds Blackbird (continental) play area - 3 Meadow Pipit flew over play area - 2 Bullfi
23 October 2014
Latest Sightings
Barnacle Geese: 7,000 around the reserve. Whooper Swans: 14 around the reserve. Whooper Pond Whooper Swan 4 Mute Swan 2 + 8 cygnets Mallard 256 Tufted Duck 50 Wigeon 40 Gadwall 1♂ Teal 5 Canada Geese 1 Folly Pond Mute Swan 3 Green-winged Teal
23 October 2014
Today's sightings
Holden Tower SHAG 1 First winter Cormorant 5 Little Stint 3 Grey Plover 1 Dunlin 153 Curlew 60 White-fronted Goose 4 Barnacle Goose 200 Little Egret 1 Peregrine 1 The Zeiss Hide Spotted Redshank 3 Redshank 19 Greenshank 1 Snipe 18 Avocet 1 Black-tailed Go
23 October 2014
Wildlife sightings for 23rd October 2014
2 Redshank - on the river 44 Redwing - flew SW 2 Stonechat - marsh 8 Chiffchaff - sheltered lagoon, reedbed, world wetlands, entrance lake 1 Blackcap - south route 1 Siskin - entrance lake October bird highlights: Hobby, Buzzard, Jack Snipe, Green Sandpip
23 October 2014