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Red kite
Red kite flew South past the visitor centre over the Hundred Foot Drain at 1.05pm. [...]
6 June 2012
Swifts
A pleasant day, better than forecasted. Quite a build up of Common Swift feeding over the reserve 100+ birds, a classic sight in summer. Plenty of evidence of breeding with many Shelduck and Mallard c [...]
6 June 2012
Todays Sightings
Whooper Pond Mute Swan 2 + 6 cygnets Mallards with ducklings Teal Pond Little Grebe on nest Flood Ground Wigeon 2 Oystercatcher 2 Heron Mallard with families of ducklings [...]
6 June 2012
Wildlife sightings for 6th June 2012
1 Hobby - main lake 1 Buzzard - over site 1 Oystercatcher - main lake gull ridge 1 Little Ringed Plover - main lake long shingle island 11 Common Tern - main lake rafts [...]
6 June 2012
Behind-the-Scenes to Fathers Go Feral!
Behind-the-Scenes Tours – On Saturday 9th and Sunday 10th June Find out more about how the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust manage a complex mosaic of intertidal and freshwater habitats. Grounds and Reserve Manager, Kerry Mackie, will take you behind the sce
5 June 2012
Out on the reserve today
Temminck's stint - 1 on the main lagoon One of the young water voles was very active and brave this morning, munching reeds in the open right beside the footbridge. Out on the pool next [...]
5 June 2012
Todays Sightings
Whooper Pond Mute Swan 2 + 6 cygnets Gadwall 1 Mallards with ducklings Teal Pond Little Grebe on nest Flood Ground Wigeon 2 Oystercatcher 2 Heron Mallard with families of [...]
5 June 2012
Wildlife sightings for 5th June 2012
1 Teal - main lake 1 Greenshank - wader scrape 1 Redshank - wader scrape 3 Little Ringed Plover - main lake, wader scrape 15 Common Tern - main lake 2 Chiffchaff - wildside &nb [...]
5 June 2012
Red Necked Phalarope
Red Necked Phalarope A superb female was found on the South Lake this morning 11.00. South Lake Red Necked Phalarope 1 ad female. Black Tailed Godwit 10 Oysterc atcher 2 Holden Tow [...]
5 June 2012
Sightings 4th June 2012
WADER LAKE low tide Avocet 10 (4 nests) Common tern 125 Shelduck 42 (+ 2 broods of ducklings) Lapwing 10 Tufted duck 25 Oystercatcher 4 Grey heron 32 Swallow 21 Swi [...]
4 June 2012
Todays Sightings
Whooper Pond Mute Swan 2 + 6 cygnets Mallards with ducklings Teal Pond Little Grebe on nest Flood Ground Wigeon 2 Oystercatcher 2 Heron Mallard with families of ducklings [...]
4 June 2012
Wildlife sightings for 4th June 2012
4 Greenshank - still on the scrape 1 Peregrine - over river 1 Kestrel - over south route 45 Sand Martin 60 House Martin 90 Swift - all feeding together low over the resr lagoon a.m [...]
4 June 2012
Todays Sightings
Robbie Garnett Hide Good views of the 8 Cranes here this morning and on and during the day. Holden Tower Avocet 2 Oystercatcher 2 Peregrine 1 Curlew 13 Lapwing 2 chicks Small wad [...]
4 June 2012
Diamond flamingos.
As the UK celebrates 60 years of the reign of H.M. the Queen (incidentally the Patron of WWT), and reflects on her long-term of exemplary service in office, I thought it would be interesting and topical to draw attention to the longevity and tenacity o
3 June 2012
Fluffy ducklings R us.
We always get nervous showing these kinds of photos at WWT Slimbridge, because whilst I know that they are having an extended forty winks after hatch, everyone panics that they are sick! These little Koloa (left to right 1,3,4) did not have an easy time
3 June 2012