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Todays Sightings
Whooper Pond Whooper Swan 3 (including one of our new neck collared birds) Wigeon 8 Oystercatcher 2 Teal Pond Gadwall 7 Little Grebe 2 Flood Ground Teal 10 Wigeon 10 Oyst [...]
8 April 2012
Wildlife sightings for 8th April 2012
Highlights from this morning's WeBS count: 2 Shelduck - scrape 1 Garganey - male, scrape 1 Little Ringed Plover - scrape 1 Green Sandpiper - scrape 7 Redshank - scra [...]
8 April 2012
Today's sightings
Middle Point Short-eared owl 1 Kestrel 1 Buzzard 3 Wheatear 4 Sand Martin 96 The Holden Tower Cackling Canada Goose 1 Little-ringed Plover 1 Ringed Plover 5 Dunlin 7 Knot [...]
8 April 2012
Todays Sightings
Wader Lake Tide/Low Time/AM Avocet 8 Black-tailed Godwit 1 Common [...]
7 April 2012
Wheatear & Martins
The highlights today included a male Wheatear on the boundary of the reserve and 4 Sand Martins which flew north at c18.30. Otherwise waders dominated with some more good counts, 87 Curlew were again [...]
7 April 2012
Today's sightings
The white fronted goose (Greenland race) and pink footed goose are still present on the on the NRA scrapes and are best viewed from the British steel hide. Two second summer Mediterranean gull have mi [...]
7 April 2012
Wildlife sightings for 7th April 2012
3 Shelduck - main lake 1 Curlew - circled site at 8.15 am 1 Jack Snipe - grazing marsh 12 Snipe - grazing marsh, wader scrape, main lake 9 Redshank - wader scrape 1 [...]
7 April 2012
Todays Sightings
Rushy Black Headed Gull 80 Mediteranean Gull 1 2nd summer Oystercatcher 2 Holden Tower and walkway Snow Goose 4 Teal 16 Oystercatcher 5 Little Grebe 1 Curlew 76 Grey Plover 4 [...]
7 April 2012
Lots of activity at the osprey nest
Yesterday morning I watched the female osprey sitting on the nest starting to re-arrange the sticks and the grassy tussocks now growing on the nest. She was flying around the nest site most of the morning then flew off returning with a fish at 3.15pm. A p
6 April 2012
Out on the reserve today
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6 April 2012
Todays Sightings
Wader Lake Avocet - 8 Black Tailed Godwit - 1 Lapwing - 17 Redshank - 14 Oystercatcher - 4 Curlew (River Wear) - 1 Tufted Duck - 12 Shoveler - - 3 Gadwall - 3 T [...]
6 April 2012
Today's sightings
White fronted goose (Greenlandrace) and pink footed goose on the NRA scrapes. Other sightings include chiffchaff, willow warbler, blackcap, 160 black tailed godwit, knot, spotted redshank, 6 greenshan [...]
6 April 2012
Wildlife sightings for 6th April 2012
1 Garganey - wader scrape 3 Shelduck - main lake, wader scrape 1 Green Sandpiper - wader scrape 2 Little Ringed Plover - wader scrape 1 Jack Snipe - grazing marsh 8 [...]
6 April 2012
Todays sightings
Estuary (High Tide 08.00) Ringed Plover 12 Grey Plover 2 Curlew 42 Oystercatcher 4 Shelduck 120 Wheatear 1 Kestrel 2 Roe Deer 2 bucks north of viewing area. Zeiss H [...]
6 April 2012
Ducklings signal hope for world’s rarest bird
Peter Cranswick, Head of Species Recovery writes: The Madagascar pochard, arguably the rarest bird in the world, has bred successfully in captivity, building hope that it can be saved from extinction. Eighteen pochard ducklings are currently being reared
6 April 2012