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New Sensory Garden and Courtyard Provide a Sensory Experience and Wildlife Haven at Castle Espie
Visitors to WWT Castle Espie Wetland Centre can experience a new multisensory oasis to relax and enjoy nature with the opening of two major developments, a Sensory Garden and Courtyard adjacent to the award winning Visitor Centre. The Sensory Garden is di
2 September 2014
Six Species of Raptors
An excellent raptor day with calm and warm conditions seeing many birds on the wing. A Hobby hawking for insects over Top Mere was the pick of the bunch which also included 5+ Kestrel, 8+ Common Buzzard, 2 Sparrowhawk, 3 Marsh Harrier and Peregrine. The R
2 September 2014
Today's Sightings
Wader Lake/Tide - High/Time - AM Lapwing - 304 Redshank - 42 Greenshank - 1 Common Snipe - 3 Gadwall - 4 Tufted Duck - 6 Black Headed Gull - 43 Grey Heron - 4 Saline Lagoon Redshank - 2 Common Snipe - 1 Tufted Duck - 4 Other Birds River Wear: Tufted Duck
2 September 2014
Wildlife sightings for 2nd September 2014
2 Snipe - wader scrape 1 Little Egret - wader scrape 1 Kingfisher - Reedbed 2 Yellow Wagtail - dropped onto grazing marsh 8 Chiffchaff - wildside, South route, sheltered lagoon 2 Willow Warbler - wildside 4 Blackcap - wildside, sheltered lagoon 3 Sedge wa
2 September 2014
Today's sightings
Knott Hide Blackcap 7+ feeding on blackberries Chiffchaff 2 Tack Piece/Robbie Garnett Hide Redshank 1 Green Sandpiper 4 Teal 24 South Lake Black-tailed Godwit 57 Greylag Goose 419 Ruff 10 Redshank 51 Lapwing 210 Shoveler 100+ Teal 40 Rushy Green Sandpiper
2 September 2014
Pink-feet?
It's that time of year were thoughts turn to returning geese. There has been a build up of feral geese with ~350 Greylag and 40+ Canada Geese on the reserve today. In among the Greylag flock were two Pink-footed Geese. In recent years the first local si
1 September 2014
Great white egret and swooping sand martins
A great white egret has been moving between the Scrape hide and Sand Martin/Ramsar hides since early Sunday afternoon. He has been getting really close to the Ramsar hide giving visitors displays of his fishing prowes. This morning he was joined by 2 grey
1 September 2014
Today's Sightings
Wader Lake Time/AM Tide/High Redshank - 20 Snipe - 4 Black-headed Gull - 20 Lesser Black-backed Gull - 1 Gadwall - 6 Teal - 5 Coot - 4 Heron - 2 Saline Lagoon Mallard - 12 Hawthorn Wood Bullfinch - 6 Chaffinch - 5 Greenfinch
1 September 2014
Today's sightings
Holden Tower Yellow Wagtail 2 among Pied Wagtail and Meadow Pipit around the scrape South Lake Ruff 16 ( 4 adults) Black-tailed Godwit 47 Redshank 65 Greenshank 2 Pied Wagtail 12 Shoveler 123 Teal 99 Little Grebe 1 Tack Piece Green Sandpiper 7 Teal 22 Sho
1 September 2014
Wildlife sightings for 1st September 2014
1 Ruddy Duck - reservoir lagoon 5 Snipe - main lake 1 Kingfisher - wildside 25 House Martin - on site 3 Sand Martin - on site 5 Blackcap - south route 47 Greenfinch - entrance area, south route August bird highlights: Hobby, Peregrine, Buzzard, Gar
1 September 2014
Cranes at friends hide
A beautiful day at WWT Welney the sun was shining and 2 cranes arrived. They were first seen at 10am and then were seen from friend hide for the rest of the day. Other highlights include: hobby, teal, wigeon, shelduck, shoveler, pochard, mallard, redshank
31 August 2014
Today's sightings
Holden Tower Curlew Sandpiper- juvenile on the scrape, later moved to Top New Piece Pied Wagtail4 Meadow Pipit 6 Lesser Whitethroat 1 Zeiss Hide/Top New Piece Teal 400 Snipe 18 Black-tailed Godwit 28 Redshank 18 Curlew Sandpiper 1 Crane 1 Green Sandpiper
31 August 2014
Latest Sightings
The Teal Pond Hide is now full open and ready for use. Sorry for the inconvenience caused during the rebuilding. Whooper Pond Mute Swan 2 + 8 cygnets Mallard 180 Moorhen 4 Pied Wagtail House Martins Swallows Back Pond Hide Kingfisher 1 Folly Pond Malla
31 August 2014
Wildlife sightings for 31st August 2014
1 Garganey - main lake 2 Ruddy Duck - reservoir lagoon 1 Green Sandpiper - main lake 2 Snipe - main lake 1 Hobby - over marsh 1 Kestrel - wildside 1 Peregrine - perched on hospital 1 Kingfisher - wildside 1 Yellow Wagtail - marsh 1 Whitethroat - entrance
31 August 2014
End of summer arrivals
If the "back to school blues" are imminent and the summer holiday feel like they have ended all too quickly then there's a treat waiting in the South American Pen at WWT Slimbridge to make you smile. Several extremely cute and very fluffy Chilean flamingo
30 August 2014