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Today's Sightings
Wader Lake/Tide - Low/Time - AM Avocet - 20 + 3 chicks Lapwing - 3 Shelduck - 7 + 12 chicks Tufted Duck - 6 + 6 chicks Redshank - 1 Teal - 1 Common Tern - 56 + 5 chicks Black headed Gull - 9 Swallow - 3 Hawthorn Wood Chaffinch - 4 Bullfinch - 4 Greenfinch
1 July 2015
Lots of Green Sands
Around the scrapes & hides this morning Green Sandpiper 20 Avocet 70 Redshank 45 Black-tailed godwit 55 Oystercatcher 10 Little Egret 7 Garganey 1 male at Zeiss Hide
1 July 2015
Today's highlights
Main observatory Wood sandpiper - 1 Green sandpiper - 2 Ruff - 3 (in breeding plumage) Quail - 1 singing
1 July 2015
New art gallery
Nature in Action, Swan in flight, panned Tony Mills Photography artist, Tony Mills, will be displaying his work in the gallery at WWT Welney throughout July & August. A selection of mounted and framed pictures,
1 July 2015
Wildlife sightings for 1st July 2015
1 Green Sandpiper - scrape 2 Mediterranean Gull - flew NW 5 Teal - marsh, scrape 5 Shoveler - marsh, scrape June bird highlights: Garganey, Little Egret, Hobby, Red Kite, Kestrel, Green Sandpiper, Curlew, Oystercatcher, Little Ringed Plover, Redsh
1 July 2015
Today's Sightings
Wader Lake Time/AM Tide/Low Avocet - 18 & 10 chicks Black-tailed Godwit - 1 Lapwing - 32 Little Ringed Plover - 1 Redshank - 3 Curlew - 1 Common Tern - 62 Black-headed Gull - 52 Gadwall - 5 Shelduck - 22 & 18 ducklings Shoveler - 3
30 June 2015
Today's sightings
South Lake No sign of Pectoral Sandpiper to 0930 at least. Ruff-male Black-tailed Godwit, Redshank, Oystercatcher and Lapwing. Great Crested Grebe pair Cormorants, Coot, Moorhen, Mallard, Greylag, Gadwall, Shoveler all present Rushy Common Tern pair nesti
30 June 2015
Wildlife sightings for 30th June 2015
4 Tufted Duck broods - wader scrape, reservoir lagoon, wildside 2 Gadwall broods - wader scrape 1 Kestrel - Q.E.W June bird highlights: Garganey, Little Egret, Hobby, Red Kite, Kestrel, Green Sandpiper, Curlew, Oystercatcher, Little Ringed Plover, Redshan
30 June 2015
Latest Sightings
Whooper Pond Oystercatcher 2 Mute Swan 2 + 5 cygnets Folly Pond Teal 10 Wigeon 1 Oystercatcher 2 Young Mallard and Moorhen Teal Pond Reed Bunting Sedge Warbler Heron Black-headed Gull Moorhen Avenue Tower Mute Swan 2 + 1 cygnet Oystercatcher Black-headed
30 June 2015
Today's highlights
Main observatory Wood sandpiper - 1 Ruff - 4 (2 in summer plumage) Redshank Avocet Oystercatcher Snipe Lapwing Black-tailed godwit Quail singing Friends hide Quail singing
30 June 2015
TV wildlife celebs back nature law campaign
Humble by nature Directives... TV presenters Kate Humble and Miranda Krestovnikoff are backing the WWT Martin Mere Wetland Centre call to protect the laws that protect the UK’s wildlife. All the regions wildlife –
30 June 2015
Recent sightings - 29th June
The following sightings were recorded by Toni Castello, Senior Reserve Warden Main lake – visible from Sensory garden and Visitor centre Tufted duck 11, Greylag 7 (+ 5 goslings), Coot 3, Shelduck 2 (+ 8 ducklings). Freshwater lagoon – visible from
29 June 2015
Wood Sandpiper still present.
Wood Sandpiper on Vinson's Marsh Click to enlarge Wood Sandpiper still present late afternoon from the Ron Barker. Other waders present today include 150 Black-tailed Godwit, 100+
29 June 2015
Today's Sightings
Wader Lake Time/AM Tide/Mid Tufted Duck - 6 & 13 chicks Grey Heron - 29 Avocet - 14 & 9 chicks Lapwing - 25 Shelduck - 1 & 14 chicks Redshank - 1 Gadwall - 3 & 3 ducklings Common Tern - 37 & 5 chicks Swallow - 4 Black-
29 June 2015
Wildlife sightings for 29th June 2015
7 Shoveler - main lake, scrape 4 Teal - marsh 1 Gadwall brood - 7 ducklings, scrape June bird highlights: Garganey, Little Egret, Hobby, Red Kite, Kestrel, Green Sandpiper, Curlew, Oystercatcher, Little Ringed Plover, Redshank, Mediterranean Gull,
29 June 2015