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Wildlife sightings for 28th August 2012
62 Shoveler - main lake, wader scrape, reservoir lagoon 1 Wigeon - grazing marsh 1 Green Sandpiper - grazing marsh 1 Common Sandpiper - wader scrape 4 Snipe - wader scrape, main lake 1 Common Tern - main lake 1 Kingfisher - wader scrape 2 Peregrine - 1 a
28 August 2012
Spotted Crake viewing attempts this evening and tommorow morning (WWT Members only and free)
Meet in the car park at 6.50pm for a 7.00pm-8.00pm search for this bird. Spotted Crakes tend to show at dawn and dusk or in the rain. Early opening for WWT members 0730am to South Lake Observatory-Holden Tower-Robbie Garnett and Rushy Hides only, the res
28 August 2012
Latest sightings - spotted crake
Spotted Crake on the South lake JSLees The South Lake SPOTTED CRAKE 1 1st winter showed several time this am feeding at the back of the scrape. LONG-BILLED DOWITCHER 1 Adult in winter plumage Black-tailed Godwit 230 Redshank 75 Lapwing 110 Shoveler 78
28 August 2012
Beaver camera
The beavers have been up to no good over the weekend! We came in on Monday morning to find that they had knocked over the webcam. The webcam is on a metal pole and you can see the tracks all around it where they have been curious about it. This is the f
28 August 2012
Good Weather for Ducks...
Pretty much solid rain for the first half of the day, certainly the massed ranks of eclipsed plumaged Mallard and Teal seemed happy enough. A small flock of Shoveler dropped in and a single Tufted Duck appeared out of the gloom. Female Red-crested Pochard
27 August 2012
Todays Sightings
Wader Lake/am/Mid tide Redshank - 29 Black Tailed Godwit - 1 Lapwing - 192 Tufted Duck - 10 Canada Goose - 16 Gadwall - 11 Mallard - 55 Black Head Gull - 16 Grey Heron - 2 Curlew - 1 Saline Lagoon Mallard - 16 Black Headed Gull - 28 Wood Pigeon - 12 Dunno
27 August 2012
Latest Sightings
Please note, from today for the next two weeks (approx) the Flood Ground area is going to be heavily disturbed due to habitat work being carried out in the field. We hope that this new management work will provide both great habitat for wintering wildfowl
27 August 2012
Flamingos from above.
The good weather (don't blink as you'll miss it) that has been around over this weekend has been excellent for flamingo watching, and a really good way to get a view of the Caribbean flamingos to see what they are up to from a bird's-eye-view is to pop up
27 August 2012
Today's sightings
Holden Tower Large flock of 72 Arctic Terns, a dark and intermediate phase Arctic Skua and two Common Terns all downriver this morning between 0740 and 0900. A large flock of Dunlin and Ringed Plover are feeding out on the flats. A Whimbrel remains among
27 August 2012
Wildlife sightings for 27th August 2012
55 Shoveler - scrape and main lake 51 Teal - scrape and main lake 4 Snipe - scrape and main lake 1 Green Sandpiper - scrape 1 Common Tern - main lake Additional sightings from yesterday: 1 Marsh Harrier - juvenile, flew over grazing marsh A 5th Bu
27 August 2012
Junior Wetland Warden Log 2
Guest blog by WWT London Wetland Centre Learning Manager Shayna Barby Making minibeast refugia The second week of junior warden activity has seen us continue our habitat restoration work on the South Route of the Lond
27 August 2012
Butterflies and dragons
Good numbers of dragonflies at last with Emperor, Blacktailed skimmer, Common Darter, Brown, Southern and Migrant hawkers, Blue tailed, Common and Azure damselflies. The main butterflies at the moment are Comma, Peacock, Red Admiral, Small Tortoiseshell,
26 August 2012
Swallow chicks
You can curerntly see three swallow chicks nesting in the roof of our building and they are proving quite an attraction for our visitors as you can watch their parents swoop in to feed them on a regular basis. The nest is in the top of the roof as you wa
26 August 2012
Raptor Day
First Merlin of the autumn, a juvenile, showed well perched on a five bar gate. Four Marsh Harrier, 4 Common Buzzard, adult and juvenile Peregrine, 2 Kestrel and 2 Sparrowhawk. Lots of Common Snipe activity in the rain this morning with at least 60 birds
26 August 2012
Roundup for the morning
South Lake Long-billed Dowitcher 1 Black-tailed Godwit 260 Redshank 70 Teal 110 Zeiss Hide Teal 160 Wigeon 3 Ruff 1 Green Sanpiper 3 Shoveler 30 Lapwing 50 Dunlin 1 Ringed Plover 1 Holden Tower Estuary Ringed Plover 80 Dunlin 150 If you would like to wal
26 August 2012