News
WeBS Count
Today we got up early to start the day with a dawn swan count and then followed it with a WeBS count (Wetland Bird count) which is when we count all the wetland birds on the reserve this survey is done on lots of wetlands all across the UK on the same day
Why do UK water plans promise so little?
Blog post by WWT's Head of Government Affairs, Richard Benwell: Healthy water leads to healthy wildlife Last week, new River Basin Management Plans were published to protect and improve water quality. These plans are
Today's sightings
Holden Tower Peregrine 2 White-fronted Geese c100 seen briefly in Tack Piece and in flight only Barnacle Goose 112 Shelduck 109 Lapwing 40 Tack Piece 1500 Dunlin on the flood over high tide Little Stint 1 Ruff 1 Curlew 1 Redshank 5 Golden Plover 650 Lapwi
Recent Sightings
British Steel Hide and Observatory Lapwing 60 Grey Plover 50 Knot 66 Dunlin 311 Redshank 37 Oystercatcher 476 Curlew 47 Shoveler 6 Mallard 155 Tufted Duck 28 Wigeon 37 Teal 13 Shelduck 157 Pochard 2 Gadwall 18 Coot 2 Moorhen 54 Greylag 38 Cormorant 1 Blac
Recent sightings - 22nd February
The following sightings were recorded today by Toni Castello, warden, near low tide. Main lake – visible from Sensory garden and Visitor centre Mallard +250, Tufted duck 39, Coot 1, Black-headed gull 10, Cormorant 3, Wigeon 1, Gadwall 4. Wadermar
Wildlife sightings for 22nd February 2016
1 Bittern - reservoir lagoon 14 Greylag Geese - scrape and marsh 4 Pintail - main lake, marsh 8 Mandarin - wildside, world wetlands 1 Stonechat - male, reservoir lagoon reeds 10 Fieldfare - entrance area 4 Redwing - entrance area Lapwings have spre
Reserve update Monday Feb 22nd
A brighter day, and should remain dry. A good roost of 50 or so Redshank on Folly Pond currently. Yesterday the male Hen Harrier and a Short-eared Owl performed well over the merses, the Tawny Owl maintains a vigil from its box overlooking the Whooper Po
Windy but no rain!
The cold/warm front divide pushed further north meaning we were spared more rain, instead we had a very mild but very windy Sunday. It's not always easy to pick up the birds in these conditions but some excellent sightings were had! A six species of rapto
Today's sightings and news
Winter visitor departures are much in evidence, the largest Wigeon flock viewable today favoured the Dumbles scrape and pool adjacent to the Holden Tower. The Tack Piece was much quieter for waders and duck, the majority of the former preferring the Dumbl
Wildlife sightings for 21st February 2016
1 Bittern - reservoir lagoon 4 Pintail - main lake, marsh, scrape 86 Teal - site count 137 Shoveler - site count, mostly on marsh 157 Tufted Duck - site count 74 Cormorant - main lake 71 Lapwing - main lake 213 Black-headed Gull February bird highl
Sunday 21st February 2016
Good afternoon all, hope you are having a lovely Sunday. This mornings sightings are as follows; WETLANDS DISCOVERY: 2 Pochard, Tufted duck, Little Grebe, Kingfisher. LAPWING HIDE: 4 Lapwing, Teal, Gadwall, Pheasant, Wood pigeon. RAMSAR & SANDMARTIN
Today's Sightings
Wader Lake Time - AM/Tide - Low Lapwing - 25 Shelduck - 26 Redshank - 1 Oystercatcher - 2 Grey Heron - 25 Canada Goose - 36 Jay - 1 Song Thrush - 1 Saline Lagoon Oystercatcher - 2 Shelduck - 3 Stock Dove - 1 Other Birds Song Thrush - Duckery - 1 Redshank
Scaup and Short-eared Owl
Apologies for the lack of updates caused by a computer problem on Wednesday. This is a bit of a compilation of sightings. Today's bird(s) of the day were two female Scaup which were picked up on the Mere early afternoon before flying towards the Ron Barke
Todays Sightings
All of the hides are open the water levels are slowly coming up again so now we have had to close the dragonfly ponds. The Welney Wash Road section of the A1101 is open The bird feeders are very active today lots of tree sparrows and reed buntings Fantast
Saturdays sightings
Male Eurasian Teal with reflection at Slimbridge by James Lees (Archive Picture) The Zeiss Hide Avocet 15 The Rushy Bewick's Swan 75 at dawn Ferruginous x Pochard 1 male Greater Scaup 2 first year females Pochard 120