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A cold snap
The weather has certainly been cold but it has brought the Bewick's swans in overnight, upto 29 in a night. There has been 3 seperate viewings of the bittern, but nothing this week. All the usual beauties are showing well; Bullfinch, Goldfinch, Longtailed
25 January 2013
Today's sightings-3 Bitterns
The Zeiss Hide/South Finger BITTERN 3- Showing well from all three hides feeding on the ice Water Rail 1 Cetti's Warbler 1 The Roadside Fields TUNDRA BEAN GOOSE 2 White-fronted Goose 217 The Rushy Bewick's Swan 257 Pocahrd 280 Tufted Duck 300 Pintail 210
25 January 2013
Wildlife sightings for 25th January 2013
1 Smew - sheltered lagoon 1 Bittern - main lake N shore 77 Wigeon - grazing marsh, main lake 73 Lapwing - main lake 67 Fieldfare - entrance area, carpark 9 Redwing - entrance area, carpark 9 Siskin - entrance lake 3 Redpoll - world wetlands Recent bird
25 January 2013
Today's bird sightings
British Steel hide/estuary 2 brambling, red kite, kingfisher, peregrine, sparrowhawk, 2 water rail, 15 linnet, 20 redwing, 3 greenshank, 58 lapwing, 17 black tailed godwit, 25 redshank, 28 brent goose, 43 greylag goose, 53 shelduck, 113 wigeon, 8 shoveler
24 January 2013
The thaw begins
Sunshine and some rapid thawing today. Rushy Bewicks Swan 276 Teal 226 numbers building as the thaw sets in. Pochard 180 Pochard X Feruginous 1 Tufted Duck 70 Pintail 82 Buzzard 1 Redshank 1 Grey Wagtail 1 Whitefronted and Bean Geese The flock is feeding
24 January 2013
Recent Sightings
Sightings from the 13th January have included: 212 Brent on the Estuary with 546 Shelduck. Main Lake – 178 Mallard, 16 Tufted Ducks, 4 Little Egrets, 4 Gadwalls, 5 Coot and 64 Black Headed Gulls. Saline Lagoon – 2 Little Grebes. Peninsula Saltmarsh
24 January 2013
Todays Sightings
Wader Lake/Saline Lagoon 100% Frozen Hawthorn Wood Greater Spotted Woodpecker - 1 Nuthatch - 1 Siskin - 12 Bullfinch - 19 Coal Tit - 9 Blue Tit - 17 Great Tit - 11 Long Tailed Tit - 10 Robin - 5 Dunnock - 2 Blackbird - 4 Other Birds Fieldfare (Sout
24 January 2013
Snow makes birds bolder in hunt for food
Notes and photos from a Jan 20 2013 The water near the Ramsar and Sand Martin hides is frozen over - just small areas of water remain open in the centre. Birds crowd the water here making counting difficult. Today I arrived early to see the 27 Bewick’s
24 January 2013
Latest Sightings
Whooper Pond Whooper Swan 200 Mute Swan 60 Wigeon 110 Tufted Duck 70 Teal 20 Pintail 1 (drake) Gadwall 5 Shoveler 10 Canada Goose 30 Greylag Goose 30 Pink-footed Goose 1 Folly Pond GREEN-WINGED TEAL (adult drake) Whooper Swan 4 Teal 150 Shoveler 5 Wigeon
24 January 2013
WWT welcomes lead poison review
WWT has welcomed the Government’s announcement to review the progress of the Lead Ammunition Group, of which WWT is a member. The Group was set up in 2010 in response to urgent concerns about the toxic effects of ammunition made of lead, which is a pois
24 January 2013
Wildlife sightings for 24th January 2013
1 Smew - sheltered lagoon 60 Wigeon - marsh 1 Bittern - (reported) 110 Fieldfare - on marsh and amongst sheltered lagoon trees a.m., some moving W+SW 50 Siskin - moving across whole reserve 3 Redpoll - with Siskin flock along the south route 4 Meadow
24 January 2013
Slimbridge in the snow - VIDEO
[yframe url='http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fPcXfNu4L8'] Just before the snow melts we wanted to share some of the images of our birds in the snow. More vulnerable species were moved to warmer places and others were provided with hay and extra fee
23 January 2013
Today's sightings
Fieldfare by Jane Rowe Main lagoon Bewick's swan - 8 flew on to the main lagoon at 3.10pm today and remained through the swan talk before moving on just before the swans were fed. Snipe - 2 Black-tailed godwit - 1 Rin
23 January 2013
Red-throated diver
A red-throated diver has just been spotted heading from the River Wear onto Wader Lake! They usually winter on the coast so it has most likely been forced up river by the extreme cold snap. We don't have a pic but here's a link to some nice ones we found
23 January 2013
Today's sightings- Snow Bittern
The Bittern showed well again this afternoon out in the snow. Photo copyright JSLees WWT The Zeiss Hide BITTERN 1 Showed very well this afternoon Grey Heron 1 Water Rail 2 Cetti's warbler 1 The Willow Hide Water Rail 1 Showing very well Bullfinch 2 Cha
23 January 2013