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Help us name a baby otter
We have joined forces with the Champion newspaper to run a competition to name one of our baby otters after your favourite olympian. The otter we are naming is a little girl. The prize is to win a behind the scenes day at Martin Mere, working with Alex wh
22 August 2012
Todays Moth Counts
Svenssons Copper Underwing - 1 Dun-bar - 2 Dark Arches - 2 Broad-bordered Yellow Underwing - 3 Large Yellow Underwing - 9 Common Rustic - 15 Rosy Rustic - 2 Flame Carpet - 1 Willow Beauty - 3
22 August 2012
Today's wildlife sightings
At least 20 small red eyed damselflies have been seen from the Peter Scott hide and the fishing platforms around the millennium wetlands. Other sightings include: spoonbill 3 garganey 49 greenshank 2 ruff green sandpiper 375 black tailed godwit 28 little
22 August 2012
Todays Sightings
Wader Lake/AM/High Tide Curlew - 7 Redshank - 64 Lapwing - 107 Tufted Duck - 13 + 3 young ducklings Gadwall - 4 Shoveler - 1 Mallard - 40 Saline Lagoon/AM Black Headed Gull - 44 Cormorant - 1 Common Sandpiper - 2 Hawthorn Wood/AM Nuthatch
22 August 2012
Latest Sightings
Black-tailed Godwit (not taken today), M.Youdale © Copyright 2012 WWT Whooper Pond Mute Swan with cygnets Black-tailed Godwit 3 Tufted Duck 1 Teal Pond Little Grebe (juv) Teal 4 Avenue Tower Marsh Harrier Gargan
22 August 2012
Wildlife sightings for 22nd August 2012
40 Shoveler - scrape and main lake 80 Teal - scrape and main lake 3 Green Sandpiper - scrape 1 Little Ringed Plover - main lake 36 Lapwing - main lake 1 Wheatear - perched on grazing marsh bridge Recent bird highlights: Garganey, Peregrine, Common
22 August 2012
Today's sightings
Long-Billed Dowitcher on the South lake today JSLees WWT The Tack Piece MARSH HARRIER 1 Juvenile Wood Sandpiper 1 Common Sandpiper 1 Green Sandpiper 6 The Holden Tower Little Stint 1 juvenile Turnstone 5 Sanderling 3
22 August 2012
A few birds and a bit of mothing.
We had time to run the moth trap last night and caught 49 species including the migrant Dark Sword-grass. A few more Black-tailed Godwit with 25 birds on the Mere including a few juveniles. Also 8 Ruff with one juvenile present, 20+ Common Snipe, 300+ Lap
21 August 2012
Wildlife sightings for 21 August 2012
59 Shoveler – main lake, scrape 54 Teal – scrape, main lake 1 Garganey – scrape, resr lagoon 3 Green Sandpiper – scrape 1 Snipe – marsh 2 Common Tern – main lake, sheltered lagoon 4 Swallow – flew SW 4 Willow Warbler – south route, shelter
21 August 2012
Latest Sightings
Whooper Pond Mute Swan with cygnets Tufted Duck 1 Coot 1 Folly Pond Black-tailed Godwit 14 Teal 314 Shoveler 7 Teal Pond Young Little Grebe Avenue Tower Lapwing 560 Teal 30 Golden Plover 10 Buzzard 1 Saltmarsh Osprey 1 Kittwake 1 Osprey & Badger Cam
21 August 2012
Latest Sightings
Wader Lake/20.08.12/PM Canada Goose - 120+ Curlew - 500+ Barnacle Goose - 1 Wader Lake/21.08.12/AM/Mid Tide Lapwing - 110 Redshank - 9 Teal - 6 Black Headed Gull - 7 Mallard - 43 Grey Heron - 1 Moorhen - 6 Coot - 2 Saline Lagoon/AM/Mide Tide/21.08
21 August 2012
Out on the reserve today
Crane - 3 on Lady Fen and Bank farm Common sandpiper - 2 Little egret - large numbers
21 August 2012
Today's sightings
The South Lake LONG-BILLED DOWITCHER 1 Spotted Redshank 1 Redshank 67 Black-tailed Godwit 201 Lapwing 157 Teal 45 The Holden Tower Curlew 356 Whimbrel 4 Bar-tailed Godwit 1 Black-tailed Godwit 8 Common Sandpiper 4 Spotted Redshank 1 Knot 2 Sanderling 2 Du
21 August 2012
Grasshopper warbler
A grasshopper warbler has just been spotted down at the amphibian ponds - quite a rarity for us and usually seen in spring :-)
21 August 2012
A Gardener’s Friend – It’s Much Less Bother with a Hover
Guest blog by London Wetland Centre’s Chief Ecologist Richard Bullock Hoverfly Volucella inanis - Richard Bullock Many hoverflies mimic wasp colouration to avoid being attacked by predators such as birds. This is an
21 August 2012