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Today's sightings
Juvenile and adult White-fronted Geese by JSLees WWT Send us your photographs If you have any good photographs of our wildlife, we would love to publish them here. send them to james.lees@wwt. [...]
9 January 2012
The return of a favourite
When checking swan ring numbers on the main lagoon this morning it was a pleasure to find a ringed pair who are regulars to welney. U5B, Baldur and his mate U5S were present with 5 cygnets [...]
8 January 2012
Out on the reserve today
Large flocks of black-tailed godwit and lapwing are using the shallow flooded washes across the reserve again today and are providing some great displays. Three barn owls were hunting along the [...]
8 January 2012
Bewick's Swans
The 2 Bewick's Swans seen late afternoon were the birds of the day, the species is getting harder and harder to see on site as the years go by. In the early days of Martin Mere Bewick's often [...]
8 January 2012
Wildlife sightings for 8th January 2012
1 Pintail - male, scrape 3 Jack Snipe - main lake 12 Snipe - grazing marsh 3 Water Rail - pond zone and 2 calling on sheltered lagoon 3 Redwing - entrance area 2 Stonechat - grazin [...]
8 January 2012
Today's sightings
The Zeiss Hide BITTERN 2 - 1 Showed very well for most of the day, and was hunting in the open for three hours in the afternoon. Chiffchaff 1 Cetti's Warbler 1 Teal 650 Black-tailed [...]
8 January 2012
Today's Sightings
Wader Lake A.M. Low Tide Shelduck 12 Mallard 82 Teal 54 Wigeon 10 Shoveler 2 Grey Heron 3 Lapwing 26 Hawthorn Wood T [...]
7 January 2012
White fronted Geese
A small group of several White fronted geese seen this morning, failed to reappear after being flushed, but, good numbers of pink footed geese. 1700 Whooper Swans continue to use the reserve everyday [...]
7 January 2012
Wildlife sightings for 7th January 2012
2 Bittern - south side of main lake, reedbed channel by Wildside hide 2 Shelduck - main lake 4 Pintail - 3 male 1 female, wader scrape 1 Peregrine - male, hunting over main lake and marsh [...]
7 January 2012
Todays Sightings.
Holden Tower and Robbie Garnett Hide Bewicks swan 50 Whitefronted Goose 225 Greylag Goose 4 (continental birds) Wigeon 2500 Teal 450 Golden Plover 1600 Lapwing 2000 Dunlin 500 Ruff [...]
7 January 2012
Todays Sightings
Wader Lake Mid Tide AM Wigeon - 21 Shelduck - 7 Teal - 69 Mallard - 51 Canada Goose - 1 Lapwing - 15 Redshank - 6 Curlew - 1 Hawthorn Wood Great Spot [...]
6 January 2012
White-fronts drop in
A calm day with the reserve jam packed with birds. Forty three European White-fronted Geese (31 adults & 12 first winter birds) dropped in on Plover field early afternoon viewed from UU hide, also [...]
6 January 2012
Wildlife sightings for 6th January 2012
1 Bittern - main lake S shore, to the right of the Dulverton Hide 1 Jack Snipe - main lake 2 Pintail - marsh 1 Shelduck - main lake 1 Pheasant - sheltered lagoon 5 Fieldfare - arou [...]
6 January 2012
Marsh Harrier joins the party
Great birding again from all of the hide, the female Marsh Harrier that has been using the north end of the reserve for some time now was hunting around the Dumbles and estuary this morning flushi [...]
6 January 2012
Today's Sightings
Wader Lake AM Shelduck 9 Teal 59 Mallard 105 Black-Headed Gull 41 Lapwing 15 Heron 2 Hawthorn Wood Bullfinch 5 [...]
5 January 2012