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Hen Harrier
A very stormy day resulting in most birds trying to find shelter from the very strong winds, the sight of Raven, Marsh Harrier and Buzzard all sat on the ground next to Greylag Geese trying to get out [...]
3 January 2012
Wildlife sightings for 3rd January 2012
1 Bittern - southside of main lake 2 Stonechat - grazing marsh 5 Lesser Redpoll - world wetlands 3 Siskin - sheltered lagoon Recent bird highlights: Bittern, Peregrine, Jack [...]
3 January 2012
Today's Sightings
Wader Lake AM High Tide Wigeon 19 Mallard 79 Shelduck 7 Teal 76 Black Headed Gull 43 Herring Gull 4 Greylag 2 Lapwing 11 [...]
2 January 2012
White-fronted Geese
A record count of 46 European White-fronted Goose was the highlight of the day, the birds spent most of the day around the Mere showing well alongside Pink footed and Greylag Geese. The ringtail Hen H [...]
2 January 2012
Last Few Days
New Years Bird Race The New Year Bird Race was great fun, sadly not many people took. During the day I personally managed 62 species, but sadly was beaten on the day by a total of 65 species by WW [...]
2 January 2012
Wildlife sightings for 2nd January 2012
136 Teal - grazing marsh, wader scrape 2 Pintail - grazing marsh 2 Stonechat - grazing marsh 1 Pergrine - over reserve 5 Redwing - flew E Recent bird highlights: Bittern [...]
2 January 2012
Today's sightings
This stunning image of a drake pintail was sent in by Stuart Lewis Send us your photographs If you have any good photographs of our wildlife, we would love to publish them here. send them to j [...]
2 January 2012
New year's day list
Happy New Year to all, the total species count for New Year's Day was 73. With good water levels on the reserve at the moment, there are plenty of waders, wildfowl and raptors. Lar [...]
1 January 2012
Out on the reserve today
Our Tick & Twitch day is gathering steam - we're up to our 64th species for the day - a few highlights below. [...]
1 January 2012
Today's Sightings
Wader Lake - AM - Tide Level: Mid Lapwing - 21 Teal - 72 Shelduck - 17 Mallard - 100 Grey Heron - 1 Redshank - 14 Black-Headed Gull - 12 Hawthorn Wood Gr [...]
1 January 2012
Wildlife sightings for 1st January 2012
2 Pintail - male and female, marsh 1 Bittern - between Dulverton and WWF hides on south side of main lake, best seen from Peacock Tower 1 Peregrine - seen on two separate occasions fast and lo [...]
1 January 2012
Today's sightings
One of the very showy Bitterns taken by JSLeesWWT 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.org [...]
1 January 2012
Out on the reserve today
Water levels on the reserve are providing an ideal opportunity to witness thousands of grazing and dabbling wildfowl from our Reedbed and Lyle hides. Waders today have been seen mainly from Lyle [...]
31 December 2011
Marsh Harriers
The Marsh Harriers continue to show well at times with up to 5 birds still in the wider area, at least 4 were seen today along with a Hen harrier (prob imm male) which has been seen regularly now for [...]
31 December 2011
Today's bird sightings
Two Slavonian grebes were seen on the estuary at high tide. Other sightings include 125 lapwing, 8 greenshank, 37 curlew, 9 snipe, 3 sparrowhawk, peregrine, 4 little grebe, 2 great crested grebe, 54 s [...]
31 December 2011