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Artist of the month - February
Artist Irene Hilsdon was born in North Shields and was originally inspired to take up painting by her father Larry Bedigan, who loved painting watercolours of landscapes and various views from the River Tyne. Asian short-clawed otter She joined the Wo
24 January 2012
Todays Sightings
Wader Lake/AM/Tide - Mid Shelduck - 26 Teal - 48 Wigeon - 8 Tufted duck - 10 Grey heron - 4 Mallard - 56 [...]
24 January 2012
Harriers
Not the best of days for viewing, very murky condition until mid afternoon. Apart from Pink-footed Geese which are dropping back in numbers the reserve was looking jam pack, particularly on the Mere w [...]
24 January 2012
Recent Sightings
Reserve. On the 21st January the first signs of spring appeared with 12 shelduck visiting the main lake alongside 12 little egrets. 28 oystercatchers were spotted on the brickworks and on the 22nd [...]
24 January 2012
Todays Sightings
Red-breasted Goose, M.Youdale © Copyright 2012 WWT Sadly the red-breasted goose did not turn up, but most of the Barnacle Geese stayed very distantly out on the saltmarsh for th majority of t [...]
24 January 2012
Wildlife sightings for 24th January 2012
2 Stonechat - grazing marsh 1 Shelduck - main lake 71 Wigeon - grazing marsh 69 Shoveler - main lake, grazing marsh 53 Lapwing - main lake 15 Common Gull - main lake, scrape, marsh [...]
24 January 2012
Water rail
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23 January 2012
Out on the reserve today
There were some familiar faces amongst the whooper swans at the 12noon feed today including: U5B - Baldur and his mate U5S with their brood of 5 cygnets L6L - Toby Two, ringed at Welney in 200 [...]
23 January 2012
Wildlife Sightings for 23.01.12
Wader Lake AM Shelduck 12 Lapwing 27 Redshank 31 Mallard 81 Teal 63 Heron 7 River Black-headed gull 122 Reservoir Tufted duck 38 Coot [...]
23 January 2012
Year of the (Water) Dragon
The Chinese new year starts today and auspiciously it the Year of the Dragon. Having just looked it up, 2012 is a 'water dragon' year so that's got to be good, if you believe in things uns [...]
23 January 2012
Today's wild bird sightings
10 grey plover 3 snipe 2 greenshank 709 lapwing c200 curlew on estuary 53 brent geese on estuary c200 dunlin goosander 53 greylag 126 wigeon [...]
23 January 2012
Todays Sightings
Glaucous Gull, taken through my HTC Phone, M.Youdale © Copyright 2011 WWT Lochar Water GLAUCOUS GULL 1 (second ever at WWT Caerlaverock) GREAT SKUA 1 Oystercatcher 3500 Dunlin 3000 [...]
23 January 2012
Wildlife sightings for 23rd January 2012
1 Jack Snipe - main lake, from Headley Hide 72 Wigeon - marsh 16 Lesser Redpoll - wildside 20 Siskin - sheltered lagoon 5 Fieldfare - entrance lake 40 Redwing - entrance area + pla [...]
23 January 2012
Today's sightings
Holden Tower POMARINE SKUA still patrolling the shoreline heading down river and moved out across to west side at Purton. Lost to view may have gone down or back up. E White-fronted Goose 260 [...]
23 January 2012
Our first podcast - The secret life of swans
It has been a fantastic weekend at Martin Mere with over 2000 people coming along to the model train show. It is the model boat show net weekend so hopefully that one will be very busy as well. There seems to be so much going on at the moment, but one t
22 January 2012