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Close Encounters of the Fluffy, Artistic and from Behind-the-Scenes kind
On Saturday 8 and Sunday 9 June enjoy a very special exclusive behind-the-Scenes tour and discover how the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust manage their wildlife reserve and collection of ducks, geese, and swans from around the world. Grounds and Reserve Manag
Todays Sightings
Wader Lake Avocet - 10 +5 chicks Redshank - 1 Oystercatcher - 3 + 3 Chicks Little Ringed Plover - 1 Lapwing - 7 Canada Goose - 3 Greylag - 5 + 3 chicks Common Tern - 103 Shelduck - 15 Tufted Duck - 9 Saline Lagoon Shelduck - 7 + 6 chicks Tufted Duck - 9 O
Wildlife sightings for 4th June 2013
4 Redshank - wader scrape 11 Common Tern - main lake, reservoir lagoon Tern rafts 2 Shoveler - wader scrape 50 Swift - over site 1 Peregrine - on hospital across river 1 Kestrel - hunting over site 4 Blackcap - all singing in wildside, sheltered lagoon Th
Adopt a moorhen?
A very unusual event at Martin Mere: a Black-headed gull has adopted a moorhen chick and the family can currently be viewed from the in focus hide. The Black-headed gull is activley feeding all of the chicks in the nest and chasing away any adult moorhe
Today's sightings
The Zeiss Hide Greenshank 2 Redshank 4 Common Crane 3 No sign of the Red-necked Phalarope The South American Pen (Grounds) Oystercatcher 2 with 3 young The Rushy Common Tern 1 Avocet 6 (3 nesting pairs) The South Lake Black-tailed Godwit 31 The South fing
Wildlife sightings for 3rd June 2013
10 Mute Swan cygnets - 5 sheltered lagoon, 5 main lake 10 Common Tern - rafts on main lake and reservoir lagoon 1 Kestrel - hunting over entrance lake 1 Kingfisher - south route, near explore feeders 2 Chiffchaff 2 Blackcap The Sand Martin bank has
Trumpeters hatched for half term
Trumpeter pair and the new cygnets that hatched May 25. Our Trumpeter Swan eggs hatched out on May 25, just before half term week, and the fluffy cygnets were a hit with visiting families. On the wild side, o
Little Egret
A Little Egret seen from Harrier Hide in the morning was the best sighting of the day, otherwise an immature male Marsh Harrier has joined the female that has been around on and off for a while now. Other raptors included Peregrine which yet again decided
It's a BioBlitz on June 14-16
WWT Arundel Wetland Centre is holding a BioBlitz from June 14-16. BioBlitz is the latest ‘buzzword’ in native conservation – it is an intense period of biological surveying in an attempt to record all the living species within a designated area. G
First for the year: butterflies spotted
Today we have seen two butterflies spotted, the first of the year: Common blue and Small Copper. These are beautiful butterflies.
June brings sunshine and nesting Caribbeans.
There's a lot of activity going on in the Caribbena flamingo enclosure at WWT Slimbridge this week. The bad weather of late is long forgotten by the flamingos and this lovely warm spell has seen the Caribbean flamingos start to lay eggs. The flamingo bre
A fantastic Downy Duckling Week
A big thank you to everyone who came along and enjoyed Downy Duckling Week last week. We had a fantastic 9 days with 108 memberships signed up and a great 10,176 visitors in total. Everyone seemed to enjoy the event and all the talks and walks were really
Flounder for lunch
After the second hatching on Saturday things look to be going well on the osprey nest. Both chicks are being fed and the second chick is now looking stronger and easily capable of lifting it's head up to be fed tiny morsels of fish. Today our male osprey
Young crane pair loses chick
WWT staff inspect the abandoned nest. Eggshell is visible in the foreground (c) WWT The first wild crane egg in Western Britain for four centuries has hatched at Slimbridge Wetland Centre in Gloucestershire. But sadly
Out on the reserve today
Crane - 2 Hobby - 1 Red Kite - 1 Cuckoo - 2