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Today's Sightings
Wader Lake Time - AM/Tide - High Lapwing - 47 Redshank - 18 Greenshank - 2 Grey Heron - 1 Snipe - 1 Black Tailed Godwit - 4 Grey Wagtail - 1 Black Headed Gull - 7 Teal - 10 Ruff - 1 Grey Wagtail - 1 Saline Lagoon Teal - 3 Other Birds Mute Swan - Window on
21 September 2015
Recent Sightings, Millennium Wetlands
Grey Heron, Millennium Wetlands Cr. Rob Werran Millennium Wetlands Teal 26 Cormorant 11 Grey Heron 1 Gadwall 42 Shoveler 22 Garganey 2 Mallard 15 Wigeon 3 Coot 6 Moorhen 8 Mute Swan 8 Little Grebe 3 Snipe 2 Tufted Du
21 September 2015
Wildlife sightings for 21st September 2015
14 Wigeon - main lake 5 Snipe - main lake, scrape, marsh 1 Kingfisher - south route 19 Meadow Pipit - flew SW or dropped onto the marsh 50 House Martin - main lake 20 Sand Martin - main lake 1 Wheatear - female, marsh 1 Sedge Warbler - marsh 7 Chiffchaff
21 September 2015
Today's sightings
Please note that South Finger will be shut for a period this morning for safety reasons, hedge cutting is in operation, this will be followed by some reedbed management work with the excavator. Extra pipes are being installed to make the filter system w
21 September 2015
Pink-feet
Just a hint of what is to come today as small groups of Pink-footed Geese dropped in from high bringing the count to over 700 birds on the reserve. This time last year we had closer to 8,000! More gaps in the weather this week should provide opportunities
20 September 2015
Today's sightings
No sightings of the Purple Heron again today. Zeiss Hide Marsh Harrier- the rather scruffy female is still about and a new in immature male has arrived, both seen from here and on the landrover safari this afternoon. Over the high tide period (which is no
20 September 2015
Sunday 20th September 2015
SCRAPE HIDE; Kingfisher, Teal, Shoveler, Mandarin duck, Snipe, Black headed gulls. LAPWING HIDE; Grey Heron, Wood pigeon, Canada & Greylag geese, Mallard, Teal, Pheasant. RAMSAR & SANDMARTIN HIDES; Shoveler, Lapwing, Gadwall, Teal, Mute swans, Tuf
20 September 2015
Today's Sighting
Wader Lake Time/AM Tide/High Ruff - 2 Snipe - 3 Redshank - 32 Curlew - 2 Grey Heron - 1 Teal - 8 Black-tailed Godwit - 7 Black-headed Gull - 10 Lapwing - 27 Saline Lagoon Teal - 2 Hawthorn Wood Great Tit - 2 Blue Tit - 3 Coal
20 September 2015
Wildlife sightings for 20th September 2015
76 Shoveler - main lake 12 Wigeon - main lake 9 Snipe - main lake 2 Yellow Wagtail - marsh c50 House Martin - a flock came over the main lake, with a couple of Swallow in there too September bird highlights: Wigeon, Little Egret, Hobby, Kestrel, Buzzard,
20 September 2015
Latest Sighting
A lovely day out on the reserve. The distant southport airshow didn't appear to flush anything new onto the reserve although about 230 Pink-footed Geese did drop in around midday. Waders included 600+ Lapwing, 50+ Ruff, 1+ Green Sandpiper and some Common
19 September 2015
Black Tern
South Lake Black Tern 1 very (active) Black Tailed Godwit 100 Lapwing 300 Shoveler 80 Cormorant 6 Pochard 2 Purple Heron Lots of searching but not aware of any sightings. Recent activity has been centered around the Bottom New Piece with viewing from the
19 September 2015
Recent sightings - 19th September
The following sightings were recorded by Toni Castello, warden. Main lake – visible from Sensory garden and Visitor centre Mallard 100, Tufted 6, Gadwall 9, Coot 1, Little grebe 1, Black-headed gull 1. Wadermarsh - visible from Brent Hide Grey heron
19 September 2015
Today's Sightings
Wader Lake Time - AM/Tide - Mid Ruff - 4 Greenfinch - 1 Redshank - 27 Snipe - 5 Lapwing - 10 Curlew - 3 Grey Heron - 2 Black Headed Gull - 46 Grey Wagtail - 1 Teal - 23 Sparrowhawk - 1 Saline Lagoon Teal - 16 Black Tailed Godwit - 1 Other Birds Cormorant
19 September 2015
Wildlife sightings for 19th September 2015
5 Meadow Pipit - grazing marsh 3 Siskin - world wetlands 9 Chiffchaff - South route, sheltered lagoon, wildside 1 Peregrine - perched on hospital ledge 1 Buzzard - grazing marsh September bird highlights: Wigeon, Little Egret, Hobby, Kestrel, Buzzard, Ru
19 September 2015
Today's highlights
Marsh harrier - 1 female flew over main lagoon Ruff - 10 Wigeon Shoveler Teal Gadwall Mallard
19 September 2015