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Todays sightings
Summer walk sunset Each day the flight in of the swans between sunset and dusk is an unmissable spectacle. Tonight from Reedbed hide hundreds of swans flew back from the arable land in front of an orange and red sky
20 December 2014
Today's Sightings
Wader Lake Time/AM Tide/Low Shelduck - 9 Heron - 1 Hawthorn Wood Nuthatch - 1 Great Tit - 14 Bullfinch - 8 Jay - 1 Blue Tit - 2 Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 Chaffinch - 4 Robin - 3 Coal Tit - 1 Other Birds Redshank (river) -
20 December 2014
Latest Sightings
Barnacle Geese: 6,000 around the reserve. Whooper Swans: 135 High tide: 10:45 8.8m Whooper Pond Whooper Swan 135 Mute Swan 46 Mallard 160 Tufted Duck 42 Wigeon 133 Gadwall 1 ♂ Teal 15 Greylag Geese 5 Canada Geese 112 Folly Pond Green-winged Tea
20 December 2014
Great birding
Whooper Swan on the Rushy at 8am today The Rushy Whooper Swan till 8.15 (Then spent the day feeding in the roadside fields) Bewick's Swan 78 Pintail 150 Pochard 220 The Zeiss Hide Avocet 1 Black-tailed Godwit 280 Teal 700 The South Lake Ruddy Shelduck 1
20 December 2014
Christmas flamingos 2014
A final post before the New Year. The Slimbridge flamingos have been benefitting from the milder weather this past week or so, with all flocks being able to out and about rather than confined to their indoor houses. Much activity in the greater and Caribb
20 December 2014
Today's sightings
The Holden Tower Little Stint 2 Dunlin 900 Lapwing 2200 Golden Plover 800 Barnacle Goose 197 Pink-footed Goose 1 White-fronted Goose 91 Peregrine 1 Buzzard 4 Marsh Harrier 1 The Tack Piece Ruff 8 Redshank 27 Curlew 80 Wigeon 300 Teal 600 Crane 3 Water Rai
19 December 2014
Sigrunn the Swan Scientist
Like many of our named whooper swans, Sigrunn has been a regular visitor to Martin Mere over the years. He was first caught in December 2002, as an adult, and was given a plastic darvic ring on his right leg with the number LP7, to enable him to be spotte
19 December 2014
Wildlife sightings for 19th December 2014
95 Wigeon - grazing marsh 2 Pintail - grazing marsh 6 Mandarin - 3 Redwing - 2 Peregrine - sat on the grazing marsh December bird highlights: Brent Goose, Woodcock, Bittern, Jack Snipe, Caspian Gull, Little Owl, Stonechat, Bearded Tit. Good numbers of w
19 December 2014
Wildlife sightings for 18th December 2014
1 Bittern - SE corner of the main lake 9 Snipe - grazing marsh, main lake 2 Stonechat - grazing marsh December bird highlights: Brent Goose, Woodcock, Bittern, Jack Snipe, Caspian Gull, Little Owl, Stonechat, Bearded Tit. Good numbers of wintering wildfo
19 December 2014
Hope for swans - thank you
This year we introduced you to Hope, a Bewick's swan fitted with a GPS tag that lets us track her remarkable migratory journeys. Hope and her companions are at risk. Research has revealed an alarming trend: Bewick's swan numbers plummeted from 29,000 to 1
19 December 2014
Communities left with flood risk after nine out of 10 developments exempted from SuDS
Communities have been left to face ever increasing risk from flooding, according to the Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust (WWT), after Communities Secretary Eric Pickles yesterday announced big exemptions allowing developers to continue directing rain water t
19 December 2014
Latest Sightings
Barnacle Geese: 6,000 around the reserve. Whooper Swans: 97 High tide: 10:00 8.3m Whooper Pond Whooper Swan 97 Mute Swan 46 Mallard 160 Tufted Duck 42 Wigeon 133 Gadwall 1 ♂ Teal 15 Greylag Geese 5 Canada Geese 112 Folly Pond Green-winged Teal
19 December 2014
Conservation partnership urges Minister to rethink risky goose cull
Responding to Scottish Natural Heritage’s announcement on a goose management strategy for the island of Islay, the Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust and the RSPB have issued the following statement: “This Scottish Government and NFUS scheme proposes to
18 December 2014
Today's Sightings
Wader Lake Time/AM Tide/Low Shelduck - 8 Teal - 42 Mallard - 62 White Mallard (domestic drake) - 1 Tufted Duck - 14 Canada Goose - 11 Greylag - 1 Redshank - 30 Curlew - 2 Stock Dove - 2 Saline Lagoon Shelduck - 2 Hawthorn Woo
18 December 2014
Latest Sightings
Barnacle Geese: 11,000 around the reserve. Whooper Swans: 152 High tide: 09:10 7.9m Whooper Pond Whooper Swan 152 Mute Swan 45 Mallard 290 Tufted Duck 41 Wigeon 197 Gadwall 3 ♂ Teal 40 Greylag Geese 1 Canada Geese 112 Folly Pond Green-winged Te
18 December 2014