News - Caerlaverock
3 eggs for our Ospreys and the Summer Walk is open!
Our pair of Osprey have now laid 3 eggs which they are now incubating on the nest! You can watch live between 10am and 5pm here: http://www.wwt.org.uk/wetland-centres/caerlaverock/experience/ospreys/ The eggs will likely hatch around mid May. The
29 April 2017
Splashtastic Scottish Puddle Jumping!
During the February halfterm holidays we held the Scottish Puddle Jumping Championships with Dusty Duck at WWT Caerlaverock! Puddle jumpers of all ages showed us their skills at making a splash – and our volunteer judge, Andy was looking for creativity,
1 March 2017
Rafts ahoy!
The Reserve Team have been very busy over the past two days and you will see a couple of new additions on your next visit! We have floated the first of five new nesting rafts on the Teal Pond... You can see the new raft from the Teal Pond hide and fing
22 February 2017
WWT Caerlaverock – Dragonfly Hotspot
In the summer of 2016, WWT Caerlaverock was designated a Dragonfly Hotspot by the British Dragonfly Society. For more information on the British Dragonfly Society (BDS) and Dragonfly Hotspots please see their website www.british-dragonflies.org.uk/content
30 January 2017
Osprey chicks ringed and now live online!
The two Osprey chicks have now been ringed by our colleagues at the Forestry Commission for Scotland. We have a male blue PW9 and female blue PW0 in the nest. They have also been fitted with satellite trackers, so we will be able to follow them throug
14 July 2016
Autumnwatch On-site!
The set-up for Autumnwatch is in full swing today with cables being laid, trucks arriving, hay bales being moved about…….. Photo credit: James Stevens The presenters have arrived and are out and about, watching th
29 October 2015
Green-winged Teal Returns!
A Green-winged Teal has returned to Caerlaverock for the third winter in a row. We believe this to be the same bird as the past 2 years because it has very similar behaviour. It seems to have joined the Eurasian Teal population which migrate to Fennoscand
24 October 2015
Autumnwatch 2015 comes to WWT Caerlaverock
WWT Caerlaverock Wetland Centre near Dumfries will be the venue for Autumnwatch 2015 Caerlaverock Wetland Centre is on the marshy banks of the Solway Firth, the overwintering home for the entire population of 30,000 Svalbard barnacle geese. It’s also o
13 July 2015
Record Breaking Barnie!
Oldest Barnacle Goose on record seen on the Solway! WWT has been involved in a long running research project into the Svalbard breeding population of Barnacle Geese that winter on the Solway Firth. In the early 1960’s the first birds were caught at Caer
11 December 2014
Incredible Journeys? Barnies and Whoopers make theirs, as does a rarity...
It's that time again, as thousands of wildfowl make their incredible journeys from the Arctic to the UK. The first Barnacle Geese arrived back from Svalbard on the 23rd September with a flock of 85 dropping in. Since then numbers have shot up and we curre
8 October 2014
First Osprey egg hatches out Sunday 25th May 2014
The first osprey egg of the three laid this year hatched out on Sunday morning the 25th of May with the 2nd & 3rd hopefully due to hatch in the next few days at probably two day intervals. If they all hatch out successfully, this brings the grand tot
26 May 2014
Waiting for the Ospreys - live camera up and running
We have now got our new Osprey Cam up and running in the Visitor Centre, as it is around this time that we would expect the arrival of our pair of Ospreys, back from West Africa! The live feed from the nest camera will be running in the Visitor Centre ev
22 March 2014
Tidal flooding again...ready for World Wetlands Day
We have had a repeat of the tidal flooding that we got at the beginning of January, so if you missed it before, come on down tomorrow (Sun 2nd Feb) and enjoy the fantastic spectacle of thousands of wildfowl and waders taking advantage of the flooded field
1 February 2014
More big high tides!
After the tidal flooding at the beginning of January we have got a bit of work to do fixing fences in the fields and on the merse, but there's no point in doing it just yet, as we have even more big tides on the way! Today (Fri 31st Jan) is a 10 metre hig
31 January 2014
Tidal surge floods most of reserve
The reserve looks very different today after the tidal surge breached our sea wall and flooded into our fields yesterday. Most of the reserve is now under water, which made for great views of waders from the Avenue Tower after the high tide yesterday.
4 January 2014