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Todays Sightings
Wader Lake - Mid Tide - AM Avocet - 8 + 2 juv & 6 chicks Lapwing - 6 + 3 chicks Oystercatcher - 2 + 2 chicks Redshank - 1 Common Tern - 74 Grey Heron - 37 Gadwall - 2 + brood of 10 ducklings Shoveler - 3 Teal - 2 Tufted Duck - 8 + 11 ducklings Shelduc
19 June 2013
Parliamentarians strike off Severn Barrage concept
Madeline Moon MP, Kate Jennings (RSPB) and Charles Walker MP meet at Westminster MPs and environmental groups have united in their call for the Severn Barrage concept to be abandoned, calling instead for a renewed foc
19 June 2013
Wildlife sightings for 19th June 2013
2 Black-necked Grebe - main lake (spotted first at 1045hrs, then not seen again until 1515hrs - still on main lake towards the north shore, seen from WWF hide) 5 Teal - scrape 1 Shoveler - scrape 4 Lapwing juvs - marsh and scrape 2 Redshank adults, with o
19 June 2013
Today's sightings-3 Rare Ducks!
The Rushy AMERICAN GREEN-WINGED TEAL 1 Drake feeding with 18 European Teals Green Sandpiper 5 Redshank 1 Black-tailed Godwit 32 Avocet 6- Still incubating Shelduck 3 pairs with young The South lake RUDDY SHELDUCK 2 Redshank 9 Avocet 1 Kingfisher 1 Common
19 June 2013
The intriguing world of invertebrates
A variety of fascinating insects and other small invertebrates have been out and about, making the most of the warmer weather at WWT London Wetland Centre. Mother Shipton moth (Philip Briggs) and Mother Shipton The Mo
19 June 2013
Summer Time
A very pleasant day on the reserve, feeling like summer! A Grey Wagtail briefly on the Nature Trail near the in focus shop seemed out of place. A similar selection of late with Cuckoo(s) still calling at the back of the Waterfowl Gardens/Reed Bed Walk. Gr
18 June 2013
Wildlife sightings - including a whimbrel on Wader Lake
Wader Lake (AM, mid-tide): Avocet - 6 adults, 2 juveniles and 6 chicks Lapwing - 4 adults, 1 juvenile and 3 chicks Oystercatcher - 4 adults and 2 chicks Redshank - 2 Whimbrel - 1 Shelduck - 10 adults and 40 ducklings Tufted duck - 8 adults and 15 duckling
18 June 2013
Baby Tern
This morning, right on the estimated date at least one of the two Common Tern eggs have hatched on the tern raft in front of the Sand martin hide. Windows have been opened for the occassion!
18 June 2013
Community project saves local shop history
See the exhibition for yourself at WWT Welney Wetland Centre Littleport high street in days gone by A model and photographic archive of a Fenland ironmongery shop which had supplied the local community for over 100 ye
18 June 2013
Wildlife sightings for 18th June 2013
2 Pochard broods A total of 27 Mute Swan cygnets, including a creche of 12 on the wader scrape 2 Little Ringed Plover - wader scrape 2 Redshank - wader scrape 4 Shoveler - main lake, wader scrape 9 Teal - wader scrape 4 Common Tern chicks - main lake, re
18 June 2013
Today's sightings
The South lake SPOONBILL 1 adult in summer plumage Common Tern 2 Black-tailed Godwit 17 Redshank 7 Kingfisher 1 The Rushy Green Sandpiper 2 Avocet 6 Black-tailed Godwit 35 Oystercatcher 3 The Zeiss Hide Green Sandpiper 1 Common Crane 2 (GCP) The South Fin
18 June 2013
WWT Washington earns 2013 TripAdvisor Certificate of Excellence
Image by Alan Hewitt WWT Washington Wetland Centre has been honoured as a top performing visitor attraction by users of the world’s largest and best-known travel site. Our 103-acre nature reserve and wetland centre
17 June 2013
Visitors discover our newest hide
We opened our New Discovery Hide last weekend with a special preview for winners of our ‘Win a Day Out with Dad’ contest. The new hide has mounted telescopes, binoculars and lots of signs and books on the wild birds of WWT Arundel Wetland Centre. In
17 June 2013
BioBlitz reveals rare plants and scarce dragonfly
Scarce Chaser dragonfly photographed during the BioBlitz weekend of Jun 14-16 Meadow rue is found only in the Arun Valley in Sussex. A weekend of intensive nature surveys revealed
17 June 2013
Out on the reserve today
Black-tailed godwit and chick from the small green hides between Nelson -Lyle hide and the main observatory.
17 June 2013