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March art exhibition
Looking for a unique and original Mother’s Day gift for a mam who’s a bit arty? Our current exhibition by Alison Edwards features a number of beautiful watercolour, gouache and pencil pieces, plus some pastels and photographic prints, priced from £7
Recent sightings - 29th February
The following sightings were recorded by Reserve Warden, Pete Matchett. Main lake – visible from Sensory garden and Visitor centre Cormorant 5. Wadermarsh - visible from Brent Hide Redshank 3, Black-headed gull 55, Shelduck 2. Freshwater lagoon –
Today's Sighting's
WADER LAKE 90% FROZEN / MID TIDE Lapwing - 14 Grey Heron - 14 Redshank - 1 Oystercatcher - 1 Stock Dove - 2 Mute Swan - 2 Black- Headed Gull - 130 Mistle Thrush - 2 Eurasian Teal - 4 Shelduck - 26 SALINE LAGOON FROZEN OTHER BIRDS Lesser
Recent Sightings, Millennium Wetlands
Common Crossbill 6 Lesser Redpoll 7 Redwing 17 Goldcrest 2 Pied Wagtail 1 Stonechat 2 Jack Snipe 1 Snipe 16 Lapwing 6 Buzzard 1 Sparrowhawk 1 Shelduck 32 Pochard 12 Shoveler 18 Tufted Duck 53 Teal 27 Gadwall 29 Mallard 36 Great Crested Grebe 1 Little Gre
Wildlife sightings for 29th February 2016
1 Mealy Redpoll - sheltered lagoon 11 Siskin - sheltered lagoon 31 Fieldfare - flew W 17 Redwing - flew W 1 Bittern - main lake N shore 4 Pintail - main lake, marsh 120 Shoveler - marsh 110 Teal - marsh, scrape 37 Cormorant - main lake 1 2nd-winter Yello
White stork and highlights
White stork by Emma Brand White stork - 1 present of Lady Fen this morning. Lady Fen: Snipe Redshank Teal Lapwing Goldeneye in amongst the pochard in front of the main hide.
Around the reserve, Tuesday Feb 29th
A touch milder today but feeling colder in the stiff SW breeze. Still a few Bramblings and Water Rails on the Peter Scott Trail, and male Greater Scaup on Whooper Pond, along with about 120 Whooper Swans. Barnacle Geese quite widely dispersed now as is no
White stork and other highlights
White stork by Emma Brand All of the hides are open and the Welney Wash Road section of the A1101 is open. The white stork began and ended its day on the pool of Lady Fen that is right next to the visitor centre, prov
Latest Sightings
Another pleasant day with a good range of species recorded. It is normally possible to see over 60 species in a full day on the reserve. The ringtail Hen Harrier showed reasonably well as this shot from the United Utilities Hide below testifies.
Today's sightings-bouncing Jack Snipe
Lapwing at Slimbridge by James Lees (Archive Picture) Zeiss Hide Water levels have been dropped so that we can access the marsh with a tractor and mower. We will be conducting a spring top of to knock back the hard ru
Today's Sighting's
WADER LAKE / AM / MID-LOW Oystercatcher - 2 Lapwing - 11 Grey Heron - 17 Canada Goose - 4 Eurasian Teal - 14 Shelduck - 16 Mute Swan - 2 OTHER BIRDS / AM Tufted Duck (River Wear) - 4 Goldcrest (Spring Gill Wood) - 1 Mistle Thrush (Spring Gill Woo
Swanning around
Every year at WWT Martin Mere Wetland Centre, we welcome experts from across the Trust and industry to host a swan catch to continue with our Whooper swan research, allowing us to monitor the health of the species and ring individual birds to develop prof
Update, Sunday Feb 28th
Still sunny and calm, with a thin sheet of ice on some outlying pools. The ever watchful Tawny Owl remains at the entrance hole to its nestbox, visible from the Peter Scott Observatory. The feed station continues to supply close views of Water Rails, alon
Wildlife sightings for 28th February 2016
1 Redshank - scrape 1 Buzzard - drifted over the reserve NNE 1 Bittern - reservoir lagoon 3 Pintail - main lake 123 Shoveler - marsh 71 Lapwing - main lake February bird highlights: Bittern, Shelduck, Little Egret, Kestrel, Redshank, Jack Snipe, Ic
Bittern
A couple of great days birding on the reserve, helped by the current benign weather conditions. Star bird of the day was the first Bittern of the year which flew from a ditch at the back of Woodend Marsh and dropped into the Reed Bed in front of the Harri