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Today's sightings
Holden Tower Bewick's Swans- 12 had left the Rushy and headed to the Dumbles by 0930hrs, the rest should follow during the morning. Peregrine,2 Buzzards and the Marsh Harrier were all hunting over the reserve 0820-0930 at least. Dunlin, Golden Plover and
23 December 2015
Caerlaverock, Wed 23rd Dec
Little change from yesterday, with a lot of water lying both on the fields and unfortunately within the avenues. Wellingtons remain an essential footwear item for full access to the more outlying hides and towers. The two American ducks are at their usual
23 December 2015
Today's sightings
Holden Tower The Golden Plover flock (1500+) also contained a greyish individual, one leucistic bird with white wing tips (only viewable in flight) and a single Grey Plover. Lapwing flocks of over 2500 are also present mostly on the Dumbles. The Dunlin
22 December 2015
Green-winged Teal and Lapwing
The biggest haul of Lapwing on the reserve for some time with over 2500 birds. Spectacular to see in flight dodging the attention of Peregrine. Lapwing take flight. The Green-winged Teal is still present after no repo
22 December 2015
Today's Sightings
Wader Lake Time/AM Tide/Low Canada Geese - 31 Shoveler - 4 Teal - 40 Lesser Black-backed Gull - 3 Black-headed Gull - 2 Shelduck - 19 Grey Heron - 1 Tufted Duck - 3 Saline Lagoon Shelduck - 2 Hawthorn Wood Treecreeper - 1 Bul
22 December 2015
Wildlife sightings for 22nd December 2015
3 Pintail - main lake, grazing marsh 1 water Rail - Peacock tower channel 1 Peregrine - Perched on charing cross hospital 15 Siskin - South route 2 Chiffchaff - sheltered lagoon December bird highlights: Bittern, Shelduck, Goldeneye, Jack Snipe, Dunlin, S
22 December 2015
Around a wild and wet Caerlaverock, Tues Dec 22nd
Little change from yesterday, with a lot of water lying both on the fields and unfortunately within the avenues. Wellingtons remain an essential footwear item for full access to the more outlying hides and towers. The two American ducks are at their usual
22 December 2015
Today's sightings
Holden Tower Golden Plover, Lapwing and Dunlin in large numbers, 100's of Canada, Greylag and Barnacle Geese. Long Ground Pool 10 Gadwall and a mixed flock of 68 Tufted Duck and 9 Pochard. Tack Piece Large numbers of Curlew, Black-tailed Godwit, Wigeon,
21 December 2015
Today's Highlights
Short-eared owl in the fields near the centre. Great white egret on Lady Fen .
21 December 2015
Today's Sightings
Wader Lake Time/AM Tide/Mid Shelduck - 15 Canada Goose - 33 Shoveler - 3 Redshank - 35 Eurasian Teal - 40 Herring Gull - 5 Saline Lagoon Shelduck - 2 Hawthorn Wood Treecreeper - 2 Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 Blackbird - 1 Bu
21 December 2015
Recent Sightings, Millennium Wetlands
White Fungus, Cr. Brian Briggs Herring Gull 20 Grey Heron 1 Cormorant 5 Coot 8 Mallard 54 Gadwall 16 Shoveler 6 Snipe 19 Shellduck 8 Teal 10 Tufted 21 Pochard 5 Moor Hen 2 Mute 6 Black Headed Gull 2 Water Rail
21 December 2015
Around Caerlaverock, Monday 21st December 2015
Little change from yesterday, with a lot of water lying both on the fields and unfortunately within the avenues. Wellingtons remain an essential footwear item for full access to the more outlying hides and towers. The two American ducks are at their usual
21 December 2015
Wildlife sightings for 21st December 2015
1 Shelduck - main lake 160 Teal - marsh, main lake, scrape 71 Shoveler - marsh, main lake, scrape 23 Siskin - wildside, south route 11 Redwing - entrance area 3 Redpoll - wildside 1 Chiffchaff - sheltered lagoon December bird highlights: Bittern, Shel
21 December 2015
Godwits flock to incredible wetlands
Black-tailed godwit flock by Nigel Cooke Visitors can enjoy stunning aerial displays as thousands of black-tailed godwits from Iceland make WWT Welney their winter refuge. These flocks of godwits undertake the same mi
21 December 2015
From Russia with swans: woman’s first ever paramotor ‘migration’
A champion sportswoman and conservationist will fly 4,500 miles from the Russian Arctic to Britain next autumn, using just a parachute wing and strapped to a small propeller engine, in the first ever attempt to follow Bewick’s swans on their annual migr
21 December 2015