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Incredible journeys of our geese
Looking out across a field full of 45000 geese, it can be difficult to imagine how our researchers are able to pick out individual birds and track their movements during their migration, but with the help of light but highly visible plastic neck rings, we
Today's Sightings
Wader Lake Time/AM Tide/High Black-tailed Godwit - 8 Redshank - 67 Common Snipe - 2 Black-headed Gull - 46 Teal - 70 Mallard - 60 Greylag - 2 Shoveler - 2 Saline Lagoon Time/AM Tide/High Mallard - 50 Teal - 18 Black-
Latest Sightings
Whooper Pond Mallard 100 Mute Swan 2 + 8 cygnets Tufted Duck 35 Wigeon 30 Teal 10 Gadwall 3 Folly Pond GREEN-WINGED TEAL ♂ Teal 230 Wigeon 150 Shoveler 10 Gadwall 2 Black-tailed Godwit 30 Avenue Tower Teal 1000 Wigeon 450 Lapwing 300 Black-tailed God
Wildlife sightings for 14th October 2014
1 Marsh Harrier - flew NE 0820hrs 24 House Martin - feeding main lake and south route, then moving on S 25 Redwing - flew S 1 Pheasant - wader scrape hide 9 Song Thrush - flew S 6 Meadow Pipit - marsh 1 Stonechat - marsh 6 Chiffchaff - sheltered lagoon, s
Kingfishers and little grebe fish on Arun Riverlife
Paul Steven’s weekly diary runs as the Wildlife Sightings column in the weekly Observer series of newspapers. It’s raining again today. Last week we had over 122 mm of rain on the reserve last week. The teal have dispersed out into the Arun Valley as
Today's bird sightings
British Steel hide / estuary 5 spotted redshank, 53 greenshank, 460 black tailed godwit, 12 redshank, 8 dunlin, 151 knot, 12 little egret, 20 cormorant, 8 sandwich tern, 2 kingfisher, little grebe, great crested grebe, sparrowhawk, buzzard and stonechat.
Recent Sightings - 13th October
The following sightings were reported by Kerry Mackie, WWT Castle Espie Reserve Manager and Peter Matchett, Seasonal Reserve Warden and Kez Armstrong, Aviculture Warden. The latest Brent count has picked up around 24,000 Brent Geese on Strangford Lough w
Today's Sightings
9.30am Skein of 50+ Greylag and Pinkfeet flew towards Penshaw Monument Wader Lake Time/AM Tide/Mid Redshank - 80 Lapwing - 30 Teal - 60 Black-headed Gull - 65 Mallard - 40 Black-tailed Godwit - 6 Shoveler - 3 Lesser Black-backed Gul
Wildlife sightings for 13th October 2014
6 Little Egret - flew low over the marsh, heading NW 3 Mandarin - world wetlands 230 Black-headed Gull - main lake, reservoir lagoon 1 Jack Snipe - marsh 1 Kingfisher - marsh October bird highlights: Hobby, Buzzard, Jack Snipe, Green Sandpiper, Gre
WWT does California. Flamingo stylee
Lesser flamingos in the sunshine in San Diego. The 3rd International Flamingo Symposium was hosted by SeaWorld San Diego in October of this year. This last week has seen Baz Hughes and me travel to the west coast of t
Latest Sightings
Another fine day of swirling flocks and visitors buzzing with exciting as thousands of Pink-footed Geese descend onto the reserve. Similar wader counts as yesterday. Raptors included 14 Common Buzzard, 3 Marsh Harrier, 2 Kestrel and 2 Sparrowhawk. Tawny O
Today's bird sightings
British Steel hide 4 spotted redshank, 61 greenshank, 3 dunlin, 151 knot, 781 black tailed godwit, 156 redshank, 390 curlew, 42 lapwing, 33 little egret, 134 wigeon, 29 teal, 4 tufted duck, 14 shelduck, 27 greylag goose, 4 great crested grebe, kingfisher,
Wildlife sightings for 12th October 2014
2 Pintail - reservoir lagoon and marsh 93 Gadwall - site count 62 Shoveler - site count 55 Wigeon - site count 1 Greenshank - main lake then flew S 1 Green Sandpiper - flew over Wildside and landed on reservoir lagoon island in front of Wildside hide 2 Ja
More Whoopers
Calm conditions and a shower free day and the sky was filled with geese and lapwings for most of the day. Small groups of Whooper Swan flying in bringing the total to 116 including this family of 2 adults and 4 juveniles. Impressive numbers of geese from
Today's sightings
The Zeiss Hide Spotted Redshank 1 Greenshank 1 Redshank 31 Snipe 1 Lapwing 200 Pintail 150 Teal 1000 Grey Heron 1 The Holden Tower Marsh Harrier 1 Peregrine 1 Buzzard 3 Dunlin 50 Ruff 2 Golden Plover 400 Wigeon 800 Barnacle Goose 200 The South Lake White-