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Today's wild bird sightings
Pinkfoot goose Greylag geese Wigeon, shoveler, shelduck, tufted duck, mallard, gadwall Location: NRA Scrapes 170 black tailed godwits Location: deep water lake, Millenni [...]
16 April 2012
Todays Sightings
Short eared Owl on Saltmarsh last week, taken through HTC phone, M.Youdale © Copyright 2012 WWT Whooper Pond Wigeon 4 Tufted Duck 13 Oystercatcher 3 Mute Swan 23 Teal Pond M [...]
16 April 2012
Wildlife sightings for 16th April 2012
1 Common Tern - main lake 9 Redshank - scrape 15 Sand Martin - over scrape and in nest bank 1 Wheatear - edge of marsh 6 Blackcap - site count 2 Rook - flew NW 1 Linnet - flew [...]
16 April 2012
Today's sightings
Migrants Willow Warbler 19 Chiffchaff 14 Blackcap 12 Reed Warbler 4 Sedge Warbler 7 Swallow 30 Sand Martin 10 Yellow Wagtail 2 Wheatear 2 Middle Point Wheatear 2 Yellow w [...]
16 April 2012
Ringed Redshank
Redshank - Mike Caiden While spring migrants are still on the move, now is a good time to look out for ringed birds. Our warden, Mike, spotted this redshank on Wednesday. He sent the details off to a wader ringing pro
15 April 2012
Out on the reserve today
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15 April 2012
Sightings
A chilly clear start to the day. Glad to have the sun present for most of the day otherwise it would have been as cold as it was in the hides! The first Orange-tip Butterfly of the year braved the coo [...]
15 April 2012
Recent Sightings
Reserve On the 14 April main lake sightings have included a cormorant, 1 wigeon, 25 tufted ducks, 17 shelducks, 5 graylag geese and 7 mute swans. Little grebes have been spotted on the limestone l [...]
15 April 2012
Lapwing chicks!
This morning there were four Lapwing chicks out from the Lapwing hide and the first of the eight pairs to hatch their young. Four Linnets feeding out from the Ramsar hide on the dry grassland was [...]
15 April 2012
Wildlife sightings for 15th April 2012
1 Shelduck - scrape 10 Redshank - scrape 2 Little Ringed Plover - scrape 2 Swallow - main lake 8 Sand Martin - main lake Also: 1 Large Red Damselfly - Africa exhibit [...]
15 April 2012
Sand Martin Soundtrack #1 on WWT iTunes
This sound system is for the birds! WWT Arundel Wetland Centre is broadcasting the shrieks of a busy sand martin colony to attract the migrating martins to the artificial nesting banks on the reserve. “It’s probably a bit louder than an actual colony
14 April 2012
Todays Sightings
Wader Lake Avocet - 8 Black Tailed Godwit - 1 Redshank - 36 Lapwing - 21 Oystercatcher - 1 Curlew - 1 Shoveler - 4 Teal - 25 Shelduck - 18 Swallow - 1 Grey [...]
14 April 2012
Spring Migrants
With most of the air flow coming from the north it does feel like a rather slow start to spring. There have been some birds battling in against the cool condition with the years first Willow Warbler s [...]
14 April 2012
Wildlife sightings for 14th April 2012
2 Mandarin - flew from sheltered lagoon to main lake 7 Redshank - wader scrape, grazing marsh 1 Jack Snipe - grazing marsh 7 Snipe - grazing marsh, sheltered lagoon 1 Wheatear - wader [...]
14 April 2012
Today's sightings-Migrants!
Common Redstart at Middle Point Copyright JSLeesWWT Middle Point Common Redstart 1 male Greenland Wheatear 3 Yellow Wagtail 1 White Wagtail 2 Swallow 200 north Zeiss Hide Avoce [...]
14 April 2012