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24 August 2015
Wildlife sightings for 24th August 2015
1 Black-tailed Godwit - scrape 5 Common Sandpiper - scrape 8 Snipe - scrape, main lake 1 Peregrine - perched on hospital 2 Whitethroat - overflow car park 75 Teal - main lake, scrape, marsh, reservoir lagoon 34 Shoveler - main lake, scrape, reservoir
24 August 2015
Latest Sightings
Folly Pond Teal 40 Shoveler 2 Lapwing 100 Linnet 30 Snipe 10 Mallard Moorhen Teal Pond Mute Swan 2 + 5 cygnets Moorhen Mallard Avenue Tower Mute Swan 2 + 1 cygnet Mallard Heron Teal 15 Whinchat 5 Linnet 200+ Golden Plover 2 Lapwing 150 Avenues & Feed
24 August 2015
Wood Sandpiper
A Wood Sandpiper was present this evening, being flighty and calling frequently and after no sightings being reported all day - this is likely to be a new bird, there are a currently a lot of Wood Sandpipers passing through the country. Other sightings to
23 August 2015
Some wonderful waders...
This season I was lucky enough to be involved in hand-rearing some wading species once again. You may have seen in our PR pages a small piece on a Ruff being hand-reared with a duck for company, and I'm hear to tell you that it was as funny as it sounds!
23 August 2015
Latest Sightings
Folly Pond Teal 100 Shoveler 2 Lapwing 10 Linnet 15+ Snipe 2 Mallard Moorhen Teal Pond Mute Swan 2 + 5 cygnets Moorhen Mallard Avenue Tower Mute Swan 2 + 1 cygnet Mallard Heron Teal 15 Whinchat 3 Avenues & Feeders Willow Warbler Swallow House Martin
23 August 2015
Torrential rain brings a fall of waders
Rain overnight followed by a very heavy downpour mid morning produced a decent fall of wading birds to the estuary and scrapes. Some very high counts of certain species were very notable. 2 Marsh Harriers were around the reserve as a new in juvenile has
23 August 2015
Wildlife sightings for 23rd August 2015
1 Yellow Wagtail - marsh 1 Black-tailed Godwit - sheltered lagoon 4 Common Sandpiper - scrape 22 Snipe - scrape, main lake 4 Little Egret - sheltered lagoon 5 Chiffchaff - sheltered lagoon, south route, entrance lake 1 Kingfisher - scrape 1 Whitethro
23 August 2015
Today's Sightings
Wader Lake/Time - AM/Tide - High Redshank - 50 Black Tailed Godwit - 1 Lapwing - 150 Snipe - 6 Black Headed Gull - 7 Teal - 4 Grey Heron - 6 Little Egret - 1 Curlew - 1 Hawthorn Wood Greenfinch - 10 Chaffinch - 6 Robin - 2 Great Tit - 3 Coal Tit - 2 Bullf
23 August 2015
Wood Sandpiper
The Wood Sandpiper is still from Ron Barker hide today, also at least 1 Green Sandpiper, 1 Common Sandpiper, 7 Black-tailed Godwit, 2 Dunlin and 15+ Ruff. A Little Egret was again from Harrier Hide and later on the Mere. The Kingfishers continue to show w
22 August 2015
Today's Highlights
Ruff-47 Snipe-4 Curlew-1 Common sandpiper-2 Green sandpiper-3 Dunlin-3 Black-tailed godwit-3 Yellow wagtail Green woodpecker Marsh harrier Gadwall Hobby Tree sparrow Dragonflies- Common darter Ruddy darter Southern hawker Small red-eyed damselfly Butterfl
22 August 2015
Eclipse Duck challenge
Eclipse (molt1ng) Ducks. A great challenge at this time of year, work your way through the big mixed flocks of molting ducks. Both the South Lake and the Top New Piece (Zeiss Hide) are covered in big mixed flocks of Mallard, Gadwall, Shoveler, Teal, Tuf
22 August 2015
Wildlife sightings for 22nd August 2015
2 Black-tailed Godwit - scrape 4 Common Sandpiper - scrape 11 Snipe - scrape, main lake, grazing marsh 1 Redshank - flew over scrape towards main lake (off the river) 1 Hobby 1 Peregrine 1 Little Egret - scrape 6 Chiffchaff 1 Kingfisher - entrance lak
22 August 2015
Sightings
The Wood Sandpiper is still at the back of Sunley's Marsh as viewed from Ron Barker Hide, also from here 2-3 Green Sandpiper, 1 Common Sandpiper, 35+ Ruff, 4 Little Ringed Plover, 3 Black-tailed Godwit, Snipe and lots of Lapwing. The Whinchat is still in
21 August 2015
One Step On exhibit textile delights at WWT Martin Mere Wetland Centre
Visiting WWT Martin Mere in September? Want to see something a little bit different? Come along and view the work of the One Step On West Lancashire textile group from Tuesday 1 September to Saturday 26 September. One Step On is a West Lancashire group of
21 August 2015