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Todays highlights
A beautiful morning to count swans we are now over 1000 Whooper swans on the reserve! Birds seen this morning... Barn owl Sparrowhawk Kestrel Lapwing Snipe Golden plover Black-tailed godwits 150 (one with leg rings) Dunlin Wigeon Pintail 7 Pochard Tufte
29 October 2015
Today's Highlights
Pintail close to Main Hide Wigeon Shelduck Black-tailed godwit Pochard Shoveler Snipe Lapwing Kingfisher at Main Hide Whooper swans Bewick's swans Canada Geese Greylag Marsh harrier
28 October 2015
Today's Sightings
WADER LAKE / AM /LOW TIDE Lapwing - 130 Redshank - 2 Curlew - 2 Teal - 25 Black-headed Gull - 15 SALINE LAGOON / AM / LOW TIDE Cormorant - 1 OTHER BIRDS / AM Jay (Wader Lake footpath) - 1 HAWTHORN WOOD / AM Willow Tit - 1 Bullfinch -
28 October 2015
Autumn Wildlife Photography Top Tips - Part 1
Autumn is an amazing time to get outdoors with your camera – it’s a time of great change, of epic migrations and swirling murmurations. There’s so much to see, and in this series James Lees, acclaimed photographer and Reserve Warden at WWT Slimbridg
28 October 2015
Amazing starling display
WWT Martin Mere Wetland Centre has seen the return of approximately 15,000 starlings at the Centre. The birds disperse during the day but return to the Centre from 4pm onwards everyday with a fantastic ten minute spectacle, creating shapes in the sky as t
28 October 2015
Caerlaverock sightings, Wednesday 28th Oct
The Kingfisher continues to show periodically, fishing in front of the Back Pond Hide the single male Green-winged Teal now seems well established on the Folly Pond, in the company of several hundred of his European cousins Whooper Swans are starting to
28 October 2015
Mid week bird news
Dunlin at Slimbridge taken by James Lees The Holden Tower Ringed Plover 2 Golden Plover 700 Lapwing 500 Curlew 70 Dunlin 80 Snipe 10 Bar-tailed Godwit 1 Barnacle Goose 170 White-fronted Goose 14 Peregrine 1 Buzzard 2
28 October 2015
Wildlife sightings for 28th October 2015
2 Jack Snipe - marsh 1 Little Egret 68 Wigeon - marsh and scrape 1 Pintail - scrape 4 Mandarin - world wetlands 13 Snipe - marsh and main lake 1 Stonechat - perched on marsh fox fence Additional sighting from yesterday: 1 Jack Snipe - scrape
28 October 2015
Lyle hide closed - Wed 28 October
Lyle hide will be closed tomorrow (Wed 28 October) whilst there are some management works carried out along the access path to that hide. All other hides are open. This work won't affect the swan feed at 3.30pm and all other areas of the reserve are ope
27 October 2015
Starling Murmuration
A glorious late autumn day with the reserve playing host to thousands of birds with 60-70 species of wild bird represented. The current 'don't miss' is the Starling 'murmuration' which can be viewed from the Harrier Hide or Reedbed Walk from ~ 4pm until
27 October 2015
Today's Sightings
WADER LAKE / AM / LOW TIDE Teal - 32 Lapwing - 10 Redshank - 6 Stock Dove - 4 Grey Heron - 2 SALINE LAGOON / AM / LOW TIDE Teal - 8 Curlew - 1 OTHER BIRDS - AM River Black-headed Gull - 82 Grey Heron - 3 Cormorant - 2 Redshank - 11 &nbs
27 October 2015
Around Caerlaverock, Tuesday 27th Oct
The Kingfisher continues to show from time to time, catching fish in front of the Back Pond Hide Single male Green-winged Teal now seems well established on the Folly Pond, in the company of several hundred of his European cousins Whooper Swans are star
27 October 2015
Tuesdays bird news
White-fronted Geese taken by James Lees The Zeiss Hide Ruff 2 Snipe 3 Redshank 17 Black-tailed Godwit 73 Lapwing 200 Dunlin 2 Wigeon 450 Teal 1,500 Shoveler 70 Water Rail 2 Grey Heron 1 The Holden Tower Bar-tailed God
27 October 2015
Wildlife sightings for 27th October 2015
1 Brambling - sheltered lagoon Rose Hip hedge, near the Peacock Tower 5 Skylark - flew N 7 Siskin - sheltered lagoon 4 Redpoll - south route and entrance lake area 150 Teal - scrape and grazing marsh 1 Peregrine - flew E October bird highlights: Bi
27 October 2015
Monday's bird news
Lapwing at Slimbridge taken by James Lees Zeiss Hide Teal 1,279 Shoveler 5 Wigeon 210 Black-tailed Godwit 60 Redshank 3 Ruff 2 Golden Plover 3 Snipe 1 Lapwing 200 The South Finger White-fronted Goose 30 Shoveler 1 The
26 October 2015