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Whooper Pond Tufted Duck 38 Teal 2 Canada Goose 100 Greylag Goose 2 Mute Swan 2 Folly Pond Teal 700 Shoveler 30 Wigeon 140 Pink-footed Goose 13 Black-tailed Godwit 1 Curlew 10 Corner Field Teal 340 Wigeon 100 Shoveler 6 Pintail 2 Avenue Tower Wigeon 21 Sh
Today's sightings
The Lathbury Hide RED-NECKED PHALAROPE 1 Juvenile showing well this am Redshank 30 Teal 1800 The Holden Tower Curlew Sandpiper 5 Little Stint 2 Sanderling 11 Dunlin 159 Ringed Plover 30 Curlew 80 Grey Plover 50 The South Lake Spotted Redshank 1 Redshank 3
Todays sightings
WADER LAKE/AM/MID TIDE Redshank - 6 Snipe - 4 Tufted Duck - 6 Teal - 54 Lapwing - 78 Grey Heron - 2 Shoveler - 4 Mallard - 27 SALINE LAGOON/AM/MID TIDE Mallard - 12 Grey Heron - 1 Redshank - 2 Cormorant - 1 OTHER BIRDS/AM North Wood Jay - 2
How long in the tooth (beak)?
Delving through the literature on flamingo biology brings up a range of interesting, insightful and, at times, slightly odd pieces of work pertaining to these birds both in the wild and in captivity. I have found several pieces of work today reviewing the
Shop stock take
Our gift shop will be closed on the morning of Wednesday 24 October for an essential stock take. We will aim to open again after lunch and apologise for any inconvenience that this may cause you during your visit. Many thanks :-)
Vis Mig
It's a great time of year to witness visible migration ('vis mig'). Hundreds of thousands of birds will be passing through the UK during autumn migration and many of these are apparent just by looking up into the sky. Generally people choose prominent g
Reserve webcam goes live!
As autumn arives so do our webcams! Webcams are now live on the reserve as the Geese fly in. We have roughly 7,000 geese on the reserve at the moment which will more than double in the next few weeks. You can also see the swan feeds towards they end of th
Avocet
Unringed avocet down on Wader Lake today! :-)
Wildlife sightings for 1st October 2012
6 Wigeon - sheltered lagoon 350+ House Martin - flying SW/W (0815-1000hrs) and feeding over main lake 22 Meadow Pipit - flying NW/W 9 Blackcap - sheltered lagoon 13+ Chiffchaff - sheltered lagoon, south route 1 Kingfisher - south route 2 Redpoll - shelter
Todays Sightings
Wader Lake/am/Mid Tide Teal - 32 Mallard - 37 Avocet - 1 Mute Swan - 1 Shoveler - 54 Black Headed Gull - 42 Curlew - 1 Grey Heron - 5 Redshank - 5 Snipe - 6 Hawthorn Wood Pheasant - 7 Blue Tit - 2 Nuthatch - 1 Great Tit - 2 Coal Tit - 1 Robin - 1
Latest Sightings
Brown Hare from the Avenue Tower this morning, M.Youdale © Copyright WWT 2012 Today seems to be the major influx day of Barnacle Geese. Yesterday count of 4500 has been almost trippled today, with Barnacle Geese almost in every field and part of the sal
Russian conservation trials pave way for spoon-billed sandpiper recovery
An Anglo-Russian team has successfully trialled conservation methods that will pave the way for Critically Endangered spoon-billed sandpipers to be reared and released into the wild. For the trials an international field team of ornithologists took eggs f
After the sun
After yesterdays far too bright and sunny day, it was good to see some rain (and wind) falling on the reserve again... It's very 'birdy' at the moment with Pink-footed Geese numbers building up again with excellent views around the edge of the Mere throug
Latest Sightings
Whooper Pond Tufted Duck 41 Canada Goose 180 Greylag Goose 10 Folly Pond Teal 400 Black-tailed Godwit 4 Shoveler 20 Canada Goose 100 Avenue Tower Snipe 1 Teal 30 Shoveler 10 Pintail 1 Goosander 19 lapwing 20 Corner Field Wigeon 190 Teal 30 Shoveler 10 Far
Today's sightings
Holden Tower Red-necked Phalarope 1- 1st winter still very distantly on floods to South. On the Dumbles edge viewable distantly from the tower Grey Plover 40 Golden Plover 5 Red Knot 2 Sanderling 8 Little Stint 2 Curlew Sandpiper 6 Dunlin 100 Ringed Plove