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Today's bird sightings
British Steel hide / estuary Goldeneye, 18 snipe, 2 greenshank, 150 black tailed godwit, 9 redshank, 3 dunlin, 845 lapwing, 5 little egret, 2 grey heron, 6 shoveler, 153 wigeon, 355 pintail, 12 tufted duck, 52 brent goose, reed bunting and peregrine.
6 January 2015
Wildlife sightings for 6th January 2014
1 Bittern - main lake between WWF and Dulverton hide (spotted from P. tower) 3 Pintail - main lake 67 lapwing - main lake 3 Redwing - Q.E.W 2 Stonechat - grazing marsh December bird highlights: Brent Goose, Shelduck, Red-breasted Merganser, Bittern, Curle
6 January 2015
Latest Sightings
Barnacle Geese Around 4000 on the reserve from Farmhouse Tower Whooper Pond Whooper Swan 150 Mute Swan 51 Mallard 140 Tufted Duck 40 Wigeon 120 Teal 4 Canada Goose 149 Greylag Goose 1 Shoveler 4 Gadwall 1 Folly Pond GREEN-WINGED TEAL ♂ Teal 180 Wig
5 January 2015
Merlin and other birds
A very pleasant day feeling warm in the sun and good visibility. A few new birds for the year with Merlin out beyond Plover Field mid morning, a couple of Redpoll presumably Lesser near the Kingfisher Hide and Woodcock in flight between the UU and Janet K
5 January 2015
Today's sightings-interesting Wigeon
Ferruginous Duck- female seen from c0940-1030am in the Asian Pen. It flew off shortly after a female Tufted Duck spooked and left the pen, it headed east toward South Lake. A brief search of South Lake subsequently never re-located it but it may have go
5 January 2015
Today's bird highlights
British Steel hide/estuary 6 water rail, merlin, peregrine, 2 sparrowhawk, 2 buzzard, green woodpecker, 80 black tailed godwit, 500 lapwing, 6 snipe, 6 redshank, 2 dunlin, 8 brent goose, 234 wigeon, 52 shelduck, 20 greylag goose, 2 stonechat, goldcrest an
5 January 2015
Wildlife sightings for 5th January 2015
1 Redpoll - South route 5 Redwing - Entrance area, flew west 60 Wigeon - Scrape bank and grazing marsh 4 Cetti's Warbler - Marsh, reedbed and main lake 3 Pintail - Main lake 2 Stonechat - Grazing marsh 1 Bittern - Main lake, to the right of the Headley h
5 January 2015
Today's sightings
Ferruginous Duck-the female was again in the Asian pen today. Holden Tower Marsh Harrier-2 seen on and off all day hunting over the whole area Peregrine-2 Buzzard 2 Kestrel 1 Golden Plover 250 Dunlin 800 (also feeding on the estuary and Tack Piece) Lap
4 January 2015
Latest Sightings
A belated Happy New Year to you all! Always good to start the new year again with a clean slate. Last year we recorded 146 species of wild birds on the reserve, approximately 12 species down on recent averages. Highlights included Siberian Chiffchaff (a
4 January 2015
Latest Sightings
Barnacle Geese Around 6000 on the reserve from Farmhouse Tower Whooper Pond Whooper Swan 160 Mute Swan 51 Mallard 140 Tufted Duck 45 Wigeon 150 Teal 4 Canada Goose 149 Greylag Goose 3 Shoveler 4 Gadwall 1 Little Egret 2 (then flew to saltmarsh) Folly
4 January 2015
Today's Sightings
Wader Lake Time/AM Tide/Low 100% Frozen Greylag Goose (meadow) - 32 Canada Goose (meadow) - 7 Lapwing (island) - 19 Saline Lagoon 100% Frozen Moorhen - 1 Hawthorn Wood Bullfinch - 8 Chaffinch - 10 Great Tit -
4 January 2015
Wildlife sightings for 4th January 2015
1 Goosander - female, flew E just before 10 a.m. 1 Bittern - N side reservoir lagoon, viewable from Wildside hide 3 Pintail - scrape 2 Stonechat - pair, marsh 5 Snipe - marsh, scrape Additional sighting from yesterday: 1st-winter Yellow-legged Gull
4 January 2015
New flooding = lots of birds
Rushy Bewicks Swan 190 Whooper Swan 1 (flew out 08.30) now viewable from Sloane Tower 1 km to N.E. Pochard 60 Teal 30 Redshank 1 Robbie Garnett Hide Wigeon 1350 Teal 860 Lapwing 1600 Ruff 8 Redshank 21 Dunlin 170 Crane 5 Marsh Harrier 2 great views both
3 January 2015
Wildlife sightings for 3rd January 2015
2 Bittern - 1 north side main lake, opposite Dulverton hide, 1 north side reservoir lagoon, opposite Wildside hide (to left of the islands) 3 Pintail - scrape 70 Lapwing - main lake 1 1st-winter Yellow-legged Gull December bird highlights: Brent Go
3 January 2015
Ferruginous Duck and Bittern
Rushy Bewicks Swan 176 overnight 196 on site Redshank Dunlin 12 Robbie Garnett Hide Crane great display here this morning all 9 bird present. Wigeon 450 Teal 340 Lapwing 600 Golden Plover 70 Ruff 4 Redshank 6 Dunlin 170 Water Rail 1 showing well at Willo
2 January 2015