Caerlaverock news
Todays Sightings
Avenue & Meadow Walk LESSER WHITETHROAT (unusual bird here at Caerlaverock) Common Whitethroat Sedge Warbler Blackcap Willow Warbler Chiffchaff Reed Bunting Skylark Meadow Pipi [...]
21 May 2012
May 19th 2012
Garden Warbler, Willow Warbler and Chiffchaff still singing from the Peter Scott Trail, despite the cold easterly wind. Further Willow Warblers and Blackcaps and Sedge Warblers from the two avenues an [...]
19 May 2012
Todays Sightings
Whooper Pond Oystercatcher 3 Tufted Duck 1 Teal Pond Little Grebe on nest Mute Swan on nest Folly Pond Gadwall 4 Shoveler 5 Shelduck 3 Oystercatcher 2 Teal 3 Wigeon 4 [...]
17 May 2012
Osprey eggs lost!
At the osprey nest, everything had been going well with the incubation until Saturday 12th of May when yet another intruder osprey arrived at the nest. It was a bird with a blue ring with white letters on it's left leg, butwe did not get a good enough lo
16 May 2012
Today's latest
For an update on the current Osprey situation: http://www.wwt.org.uk/news/wwt-diaries/osprey-diary/ Around the rerserve: Singing warblers include Garden (first for this season), Willow, Ch [...]
16 May 2012
Todays Sightings
Whooper Pond Oystercatcher 2 Tufted Duck 1 Folly Pond Shoveler 3 Teal 2 Wigeon 2 Gadwall 3 Black-tailed Godwit 9 Oystercatcher 3 Avenue Tower Teal 4 Lapwing 3 Sheld [...]
15 May 2012
Todays Sightings
Yellow Wagtail from last Wednesday, M.Youdale © Copyright 2012 Saltcot Merse Observatory Kittiwake 50 Great-black Backed Gull Lesser Black-backed Gull Black-headed Gull Cormorant [...]
14 May 2012
Todays Sightings
Black-tailed Godwit on the Folly Pond, M.Youdale © Copyright 2012 WWT Whooper Pond Oystercatcher 3 Tufted Duck 2 Teal Pond Mute Swan on eggs Moorhen with chicks Wigeon 1 L [...]
13 May 2012
Todays Sightings
Reed Bunting, M.Youdale © Copyright 2011 Whooper Pond Oystercatcher 4 Tufted Duck 3 Swallow 10 House Martin 12 Teal Pond Little Grebe 1 Moorhen with chicks Mute Swan on [...]
8 May 2012
Todays Sightings
Folly Pond Shelduck 12 Black-tailed Godwit 3 Shoveler 2 Teal 2 Gadwall 2 Whooper Pond Tufted Duck 1 Oystercatcher 1 Teal Pond Gadwall 1 Mute Swan on eggs Little Grebe [...]
7 May 2012
Todays Sightings
Willow Wabler in Peter Scott Trail, M.Youdale © Copyright 2012 Whooper Pond Swallow 20 House Martin 10 Tufted Duck 3 Oystercatcher 2 Mute Swan 1 Folly Pond Shoveler 4 Ga [...]
6 May 2012
Today's Sightings
Folly Pond Black-headed Gull 1 Common Sandpiper 1 Shoveler 4 Canada Goose 1 Teal 10 Oystercatcher 1 Shelduck 1 Teal Pond Gadwall 3 Little Grebe 1 Moorhen 2 + 2 chicks Mut [...]
1 May 2012
Winter Sunday
Brisk, cold easterly winds make for wintery conditions on the reserve. The early morning minimum temperature was only 1°C. Peter Scott Trail: A lone chiffchaff called from the c [...]
29 April 2012
Wind dropped today and sun shining on the nest
After the strong NE wind yesterday it has been an easier day for our ospreys on the nest today. The female has built up the sides of the nest to shelter from the wind so it has made seeing the eggs difficult and when she took off earlier today, only on
27 April 2012
Northerly Thursday
Strong northerly winds mean it is an unseasonably cold day on the reserve. Peter Scott Trail: Chiffchaff, willow warblers were the only audible species today however there was plenty of finch [...]
26 April 2012