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DOWN to Earth’ with the Ulster Society of Women Artists
On Saturday 15 June at 2.30pm, the Art Gallery will be offering a unique and exciting opportunity to view ‘DOWN to earth’ art exhibition by the Ulster Society of Women Artists (U.S.W.A.). The U.S.W.A. was founded in 1957 by the artist Gladys MacCabe.
10 June 2013
Todays Sightings
Wader Lake - Low Tide - AM Avocet - 9 + 8 chicks Lapwing - 8 + 2 chicks Oystercatcher - 4 + 2 chicks Common Tern - 69 Grey Heron - 19 Shelduck - 22 + chicks Shoveler - 2 Gadwall - 2 Canada Goose - 6 Greylag - 4 Redshank - 2 Saline Lagoon Shelduck - 5
10 June 2013
WWT London Wetland Centre in the top-performing 10% of businesses world-wide
Aerial view of WWT London Wetland Centre - Berkeley Homes Glowing reviews about WWT London Wetland Centre on the TripAdvisor website have earned the nature reserve a 2013 Certificate of Excellence. The global website
10 June 2013
Mondays sightings
RESERVE: Sedge warbler, Cuckoo (heard only), Reed warbler, Sparrow hawk, Water vole, Reed bunting, Wren, Nuthatch, Swallows, Goldfinch, Chaffinch, Green finch, Great tit, Blue tit, Robin, Blackbird, Pheasants, Wood pigeon, Jackdaw, Herring gulls. SAND MAR
10 June 2013
Wildlife sightings for 10th June 2013
15 Mute Swan cygnets - 3 broods of 5 cygnets each. The brood in wildside have now hatched and can be seen on the reservoir lagoon 3 Shoveler - males starting eclipse 2 Teal - scrape 10 Common Tern - main lake and reservoir lagoon rafts 7 Black-headed Gull
10 June 2013
Todays sightings
Rushy Avocets 6 (still 3 pairs incubating) Oystercatcher 3 ad 1 well grown young Black Tailed Godwit 32 Shelduck one brood 13 young. Holden Tower Little Grebe feeding one young in pool to left of tower. Lapwing 21 Curlew 13 Decoy Hide Mandarin 3 males She
10 June 2013
Severn Barrage should now be canned say environmental groups
Severn Bore (c) JS Lees Environmental groups including WWT are calling on Hafren Power to call time on their ill-conceived proposal for a barrage across the Severn, in order to make room for more sustainable renewable
10 June 2013
Green Sandpiper
The Green Sandpiper was showing well from Hale hide for most of the day, also a single Black tailed Godwit on the Mere most of the afternoon. Other waders include a Ruff from Ron Barker and the autumns Lapwing flock has started gathering with upto 35 bird
9 June 2013
Notable birds to look out for... the love-struck lessers.
Sunshine! It surely does make a change and for the lesser flamingos at WWT Slimbridge this has sparked a great deal of breeding activity. Lesser flamingos are very special birds. Not only are they the smallest species of flamingo, weighing as little as
9 June 2013
Hotting up!
The weather has been warming up over the week, but so has the action. A surprise visit by a solitary Black tailed Godwit on Friday was an unusual find for this time of year, but it only stayed a short time. A Barn Owl during a bat survey last week out on
9 June 2013
Todays Sightings
Rushy Avocets looking great here, still three pairs incubating and lots of activity. The Oystercatchers have one chick that was very close to the hide this morning, it is pretty big now so hopefully beyond the predation stage. There was a newly hatched b
9 June 2013
Wildlife sightings for 9th June 2013
3 Shoveler - pair on scrape, one flushed from reedbed channel 4 Teal - pairs on main lake and scrape 1 Peregrine - flew over scrape, landed on hospital to join another Peregrine perched there 1 Kestrel - hunting over scrape 4 Redshank chicks - still on sc
9 June 2013
Great white Egret
Bird of the day would have to go to the Great white Egret that was reported, it was seen around 11am from United Utilities before flying towards Harrier Hide. Other sightings today include a Green Sandpiper from Hale Hide, 2 Mediterranean Gulls (2nd sum/3
8 June 2013
Out on the reserve today
Arctic tern - 45, flew North Marsh harrier Friends hide Avocets with chicks Summer walk - now open Cuckoo calling Snipe drumming Yellow flag iris coming into flower at the beginning of the walk
8 June 2013
TODAYS SIGHTINGS
WADER LAKE/AM/LOW TIDE Avocet - 10+8 chicks Little Ringed Plover - 1 Shelduck - 20 Tufted Duck - 15 Grey Heron - 19 Shoveler - 2 Gadwall - 2 Oystercatcher - 2+2 chicks Lapwing - 4 Canada Goose - 4 Greylag Goose - 6 Common Tern - 78 SALINE LAGOON/
8 June 2013