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Latest Sightings Whooper Pond Mallard 200 Mute Swan 2 + 8 cygnets Tufted Duck 15 Wigeon 30 Teal 10 Little Grebe 1 Pintail 1 Folly Pond Teal 30 Wigeon 50 Black-tailed Godwit 1 Grey Heron 1 Avenue Tower Teal 20 Wigeon 50 Heron 1 Avenues & Feeders Chif
Today's bird sightings
British Steel hide/estuary 2 little stint, 2 curlew sandpiper, 2 spotted redshank, 49 greenshank, 504 black tailed godwit, 186 redshank, 8 knot, 30 lapwing, 16 dunlin, 11 little egret, 61 greylag goose, 104 wigeon, peregrine, sparrowhawk, buzzard, 4 great
Today's Sightings
Wader Lake/Tide - High/Time - AM Black Tailed Godwit - 16 Greenshank - 2 Redshank - 122 Lapwing - 10 Dunlin - 1 Common Snipe - 11 Gadwall - 55 Wigeon - 186 Shoveler - 6 Grey Heron - 7 Saline Lagoon Common Snipe - 2 Kingfisher - 1 Other Birds Jay - Site Co
Wildlife sightings for 1st October 2014
18 Swallow - flew S 2 Linnet - flew S 3 Rock Pipit - marsh/also dropped on to the river 6 Mandarin - world wetlands 2 Pintail - main lake and reservoir lagoon 2 Ruddy Duck - reservoir lagoon 2 Hobby - flew N/over the marsh 42 Meadow Pipit - marsh/flew SW
Today's sightings
The Zeiss Hide Pintail 58 Greenshank 2 Redshank 48 Snipe 4 The Tack Piece Ruff 3 Common Crane 2 The Rushy Green Sandpiper 1 The Holden Tower Peregrine 1 Car Park Willow Warbler 1
Latest Sightings
Whooper Pond Mallard 170 Mute Swan 2 + 8 cygnets Tufted Duck 11 Wigeon 30 Teal 10 Little Grebe 1 Pintail 1 Grey Wagtail 1 Folly Pond Teal 30 Grey Heron 1 Avenue Tower Teal 20 Wigeon 50 Heron 1 Avenues & Feeders Chiffchaffs Goldcrest Long-tailed Tit T
45800 Pink-footed Geese
Records being broken daily with last nights roost count coming in at just under 46000! Pretty much every inch of water on Woodend, The Mere and Vinson's and Sunley's had a covering of Pink-footed Geese. Yesterday's juv leucistic Pink's dropped in on the M
Education taster sessions for teachers
WWT Arundel Wetland Centre is holding an Open Day for teachers on Sunday 5 October. Teachers must register in advance to visit the reserve for this tour and a preview of the education sessions on offer and receive a WWT goody bag. “All our sessions prom
Less than a quarter of freshwater wildlife has survived since the 1970s
The Madagascar pochard: the rarest bird in the world Wildlife that relies on freshwater like wetlands has suffered almost twice the loss of land and marine species. Overall, global wildlife populations have halved in
Today's sightings
British Steel hide A great white egret was seen briefly in front of the Peter Scott hide mid morning before relocating to the saltmarsh in front of the British Steel hide at 10:15. Other counts include, little stint, 2 curlew sandpiper, 47 greenshank, 3
SuDS, not duds: don’t water down rules on floods
Floods will continue to ruin people’s livelihoods if the Government waters down rules on SuDS. Natural rain absorbing features known as SuDS hit the news earlier this year as one solution to the devastating flooding that hit southern England. On paper t
Wildlife sightings for 30th September 2014
2 Pintail - main lake 10 Snipe - grazing marsh, wader scrape 4 Stonechat - grazing marsh 2 Peregrine - perched on charing cross hospital 9 Swallow - flew over South 1 Hobby - hunting over wildside/reservoir lagoon September bird highlights: Hobby, Peregr
Today's sightings
Zeiss Hide/Top New Piece Spotted Redshank 2 Greenshank 3 Redshank 44 Pintail 33 Teal 800 Water Rail 1 Shoveler 10 More birds likely over high tide around midday South Lake Pochard 2 Tufted Duck 60 Teal 110 Black-tailed Godwit 2 Redshank 5 Ruff 2 Robbie Ga
Today's bird highlights
British Steel hide/estuary Kingfisher, marsh harrier, little stint, 2 curlew sandpiper, 66 greenshank, 801 black tailed godwit, 4 bar tailed godwit, 228 redshank, 194 knot, 61 curlew, 33 lapwing, 83 dunlin, snipe, 32 little egret, 120 greylag goose, 221 w
Cross over season starts to brings in teal, gadwall and wigeon
Paul Steven’s weekly diary runs as the Wildlife Sightings column in the weekly Observer series of newspapers. IT’S CROSS OVER season now with many warblers migrating to southern Europe and Africa while a few water rail, snipe and teal are beginning t