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Today's bird sightings
British Steel hide A great white egret was on the Lagoon from the Observatory hide briefly early morning before relocating to the pools in front of the British Steel hide where it stayed for the rest of the day. Other counts include; 5 spotted redshank,
14 October 2014
Latest Sightings
Another packed Pink-foot day with 15-20000 on the reserve early afternoon. Recent counts included 150 Whooper Swan, 1070 Teal, 880 Mallard, 350 Wigeon, 96 Pintail, 15 Gadwall, 10 Tufted and 10 Pochard. More raptors with 5 Marsh Harrier including two tagge
14 October 2014
Incredible journeys of our geese
Looking out across a field full of 45000 geese, it can be difficult to imagine how our researchers are able to pick out individual birds and track their movements during their migration, but with the help of light but highly visible plastic neck rings, we
14 October 2014
Today's Sightings
Wader Lake Time/AM Tide/High Black-tailed Godwit - 8 Redshank - 67 Common Snipe - 2 Black-headed Gull - 46 Teal - 70 Mallard - 60 Greylag - 2 Shoveler - 2 Saline Lagoon Time/AM Tide/High Mallard - 50 Teal - 18 Black-
14 October 2014
Latest Sightings
Whooper Pond Mallard 100 Mute Swan 2 + 8 cygnets Tufted Duck 35 Wigeon 30 Teal 10 Gadwall 3 Folly Pond GREEN-WINGED TEAL ♂ Teal 230 Wigeon 150 Shoveler 10 Gadwall 2 Black-tailed Godwit 30 Avenue Tower Teal 1000 Wigeon 450 Lapwing 300 Black-tailed God
14 October 2014
Wildlife sightings for 14th October 2014
1 Marsh Harrier - flew NE 0820hrs 24 House Martin - feeding main lake and south route, then moving on S 25 Redwing - flew S 1 Pheasant - wader scrape hide 9 Song Thrush - flew S 6 Meadow Pipit - marsh 1 Stonechat - marsh 6 Chiffchaff - sheltered lagoon, s
14 October 2014
Kingfishers and little grebe fish on Arun Riverlife
Paul Steven’s weekly diary runs as the Wildlife Sightings column in the weekly Observer series of newspapers. It’s raining again today. Last week we had over 122 mm of rain on the reserve last week. The teal have dispersed out into the Arun Valley as
13 October 2014
Today's bird sightings
British Steel hide / estuary 5 spotted redshank, 53 greenshank, 460 black tailed godwit, 12 redshank, 8 dunlin, 151 knot, 12 little egret, 20 cormorant, 8 sandwich tern, 2 kingfisher, little grebe, great crested grebe, sparrowhawk, buzzard and stonechat.
13 October 2014
Recent Sightings - 13th October
The following sightings were reported by Kerry Mackie, WWT Castle Espie Reserve Manager and Peter Matchett, Seasonal Reserve Warden and Kez Armstrong, Aviculture Warden. The latest Brent count has picked up around 24,000 Brent Geese on Strangford Lough w
13 October 2014
Today's Sightings
9.30am Skein of 50+ Greylag and Pinkfeet flew towards Penshaw Monument Wader Lake Time/AM Tide/Mid Redshank - 80 Lapwing - 30 Teal - 60 Black-headed Gull - 65 Mallard - 40 Black-tailed Godwit - 6 Shoveler - 3 Lesser Black-backed Gul
13 October 2014
Wildlife sightings for 13th October 2014
6 Little Egret - flew low over the marsh, heading NW 3 Mandarin - world wetlands 230 Black-headed Gull - main lake, reservoir lagoon 1 Jack Snipe - marsh 1 Kingfisher - marsh October bird highlights: Hobby, Buzzard, Jack Snipe, Green Sandpiper, Gre
13 October 2014
WWT does California. Flamingo stylee
Lesser flamingos in the sunshine in San Diego. The 3rd International Flamingo Symposium was hosted by SeaWorld San Diego in October of this year. This last week has seen Baz Hughes and me travel to the west coast of t
12 October 2014
Latest Sightings
Another fine day of swirling flocks and visitors buzzing with exciting as thousands of Pink-footed Geese descend onto the reserve. Similar wader counts as yesterday. Raptors included 14 Common Buzzard, 3 Marsh Harrier, 2 Kestrel and 2 Sparrowhawk. Tawny O
12 October 2014
Today's bird sightings
British Steel hide 4 spotted redshank, 61 greenshank, 3 dunlin, 151 knot, 781 black tailed godwit, 156 redshank, 390 curlew, 42 lapwing, 33 little egret, 134 wigeon, 29 teal, 4 tufted duck, 14 shelduck, 27 greylag goose, 4 great crested grebe, kingfisher,
12 October 2014
Wildlife sightings for 12th October 2014
2 Pintail - reservoir lagoon and marsh 93 Gadwall - site count 62 Shoveler - site count 55 Wigeon - site count 1 Greenshank - main lake then flew S 1 Green Sandpiper - flew over Wildside and landed on reservoir lagoon island in front of Wildside hide 2 Ja
12 October 2014