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Pinkfeet and Harriers
Some wildfowl counts on site revealed 980 Whooper Swan, 4190 Pink footed Geese, 344 Greylag Geese, 1610 Wigeon, 2490 Teal and 20 Tufted Duck. No reports of the Bittern today but the best hide to look from should be the Harrier Hide. The imm male Marsh Har
8 January 2014
Today's Sightings
Wader Lake Time/AM Tide/High Shelduck - 8 Teal - 47 Mallard - 82 Greylag - 1 Canada Goose - 2 Tufted Duck - 36 Redshank - 30 Saline Lagoon Time/AM Tide/High Teal - 20 Curlew - 1 Hawthorn Wood Lesser Redpoll -
8 January 2014
Latest Sightings
Whooper Pond Whooper Swan 150 Tufted Duck 82 Wigeon 103 Shoveler 6 Mute Swan 52 Canada Goose 170 Gadwall 2 ♂ Oystercatcher 2 Curlew 1 Folly Pond Green-winged Teal 1 ♂ Teal 100 Wigeon 150 Shoveler 14 Avenue Tower Teal 1591 Wigeon 263 Pintail 11 Goosa
8 January 2014
Today's sightings
The Tack Piece Shoveler 146 Pintail 280 Wigeon 1900 Teal 2200 Pochard 150 Ruff 7 Redshank 14 Dunlin 400 Black-tailed Godwit 190 Golden Plover 3,500 The Holden Tower Brent Goose 1 Barnacle Goose 160 Dunlin 2400 Lapwing 2800 Curlew 200 The South Lake Kingfi
8 January 2014
Wildlife sightings for 8th January 2014
1 Bittern - main lake north side 114 Shoveler - main lake, marsh, scrape 2 Pintail - main lake Several large flocks of Woodpigeon flew N, perhaps 500 birds. Additional sightings from yesterday: 1 Brambling - on feeders Late December/early Ja
8 January 2014
Bittern
Bird of the day has to go to the Bittern flushed while strimming back some of the reedbed in front of Harrier Hide late morning, it flew and dropped back into the quite extensive reedbed here, hopefully with some of the reeds being strimmed there may be s
7 January 2014
Festival of Birds Historic Hotel Offer
Our Friends at Stonehouse Court Hotel are offering a great deal to visitors for the weekend of the Festival of Birds (Feb 1 & 2) Rooms at the Hotel are normally priced from £95, but anyone who rings and books for that weekend an
7 January 2014
Dawn swan count
WWT Welney Bewick's swan - 1073 Whooper swan - 2989 Ouse washes total Bewick's swan - 1073 Whooper swan - 4481
7 January 2014
Today's sightings
Holden Tower High tide around midday RAZORBILL- one floated up on the tide Peregrine hunting over estuary and Dumbles Curlew 174 Lapwing, Golden Plover and Dunlin in thousands Barnacle Geese 160 Dark-bellied Brent Goose 1 Little Stint 1 around the scrape
7 January 2014
Today's Sightings
Wader Lake/Tide - High/Time - AM Mallard - 126 Teal - 54 Shelduck - 8 Tufted Duck - 12 Greylag - 1 Redshank - 72 Saline Lagoon Mallard - 10 Other Birds Goosander - River Wear - 1 Jackdaw - Site count - 800 Curlew - Site count - 8 Jay - River path - 1 Haw
7 January 2014
Wildlife sightings for 7th January 2014
102 Shoveler - main lake, grazing marsh 1 Jack Snipe - grazing marsh 8 Snipe - 4 flew W, grazing marsh 54 Lapwing - main lake 13 Fieldfare - wildside 1 Peregrine - over main lake Late December/early January bird highlights: Goosander, Brent Goose, Bittern
7 January 2014
Latest Sightings
Whooper Pond Whooper Swan 114 Tufted Duck 72 Wigeon 130 Shoveler 14 Mute Swan 52 Canada Goose 93 Gadwall 2 ♂ Oystercatcher 2 Little Egret flew over 8.30am Folly Pond Green-winged Teal 1 ♂ Teal 100 Wigeon 150 Shoveler 14 Avenue Tower Teal 800 Wigeon
7 January 2014
''Yellow legged Gull''
A 'Yellow legged Gull' that has been around on and off for a few years was seen again today, although at times it looks very like a michahellis Yellow legged Gull there a number of features that aren't quite right, the upperpart grey is a little too dark
6 January 2014
Recent Sightings
The spoonbill has been sighted on both the Peninsula Saltmarsh and the Wader Marsh. Along with 44 oystercatchers, 4 redshank, 2 turnstone, 16 linnet, 1 merlin, little egret, greenshank Main Lake 41 gadwall, cormorant, 25 tufted ducks, 320 mallard, 7 pinta
6 January 2014
Today's sightings
* Second highest reserve count of Shoveler ever! - 265 noted today * Highest count of Gadwall so far this winter- 98 Holden Tower The Dumbles (area of salt pasture and saltmarsh) Lapwing 4000+ Dunlin 2000+ Golden Plover 1200+ Barnacle Goose 160 Raven 1 o
6 January 2014