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Today's sightings
Holden Tower Little Stint 2 feeding around the scrape. Merlin- female resting on the foreshore driftwood. Peregrine female on the fence at south end. E White-fronted Geese- 232. Greenland White-fronted Goose 1- dark bird with long bill. Avocet 4 roosting
21 January 2014
Today's sightings
Holden Tower- The Dumbles and Tack Piece Little Stint 3 (two seen together on Tack Piece and scrape) Dunlin 2000 Lapwing 5000+ Golden Plover 2000+ Wigeon 800 Teal 350 Pintail 120 Black-tailed Godwit 142- Tack Piece only Crane- 2 GCP birds mating Dark-bell
19 January 2014
Today's sightings-Waders
Some of the 12,000 waders on the reserve today by James Lees WWT The Tack Piece Golden Plover 3000 Lapwing 5000 (7000 on site) Black-tailed Godwit 120 Dunlin 309 (2000 on site) Ruff 8 Snipe 1 Wigeon 1800 Teal 600 Pintail 180 Shoveler 50 Bewick's Swan 87
18 January 2014
Today's sightings
The Holden Tower Little Stint 1 Dunlin 600 Curlew 280 Golden Plover 3500 Lapwing 4800 Brent Goose 1 Barnacle Goose 160 Peregrine 1 Buzzard 4 The Zeiss Hide Teal 700 Grey Heron 1 The Tack Piece Common Crane 3 (GCP) Bewick's Swan 85 Black-tailed Godwit
17 January 2014
Today's sightings
The Holden Tower Little Stint 1 Dunlin 700 Curlew 401 Golden Plover 3500 Lapwing 4800 Brent Goose 1 Barnacle Goose 160 Peregrine 2 Buzzard 3 The Rushy Bewick's Swan 136 Pochard 240 Pintail 185 The Tack Piece Common Crane 1 (GCP) Black-tailed Godwit 80 Red
16 January 2014
Today's sightings
Tack Piece Peregrine 2 Little Stint 1 (3 on site) Dunlin 300 Golden Plover 3000 Lapwing 2800 Black-tailed Godwit 80 Ruff 1 Redshank 36 Shoveler 80 Wigeon 1300 The Rushy Med Gull 1 adult Kingfisher 1 Bewick's Swan 105 The kingfisher Hide Kingfisher 1 The S
15 January 2014
Today's sightings
Holden Tower Male Goosander floated down on the ebb tide among a raft of Wigeon and Pintail. It took flight and headed N upriver. Little Stint- 1 feeding on pools among Dunlin and Lapwing, it visited the scrape. Dark-bellied Brent Goose-1 on the Dumbles B
14 January 2014
Today's sightings
Holden Tower Merlin-female resting on fences at S end of the Dumbles Peregrine-female on lookout from fence Little Stint-1 seen feeding in pools and around scrape edge on Dumbles E. White-fronted Geese-193 Dark-bellied Brent Goose- 1 among the Barnacle Ge
13 January 2014
Today's sightings
An overnight frost left many shallow water areas frozen but this thawed rapidly with the onset of a front from the SW. The colder conditions and resultant drier few days has allowed water levels to subside slightly. The vast wader flocks have dispersed to
12 January 2014
Today's sightings
The Tack Piece Little Stint 2 Adult and juvenile Dunlin 200 Ruff 5 Redshank 42 Black-tailed Godwit 80 Golden Plover 3500 Lapwing 2800 Shoveler 40 Wigeon 1600 The Zeiss Hide Water Rail 1 Avocet 4 Black-tailed Godwit 140 Brent Goose 1 Shoveler 164 Teal 16
11 January 2014
Today's sightings
The Zeiss Hide Avocet 4 Teal 1700 Shoveler 50 The Holden Tower Merlin 1 Female Buzzard 4 Dunlin 2000 Little Stint 1 Lapwing 2600 Curlew 80 Brent Goose 1 The Tack Piece Peregrine 1 Buzzard 2 Black-tailed Godwit 180 Redshank 34 Ruff 5 Dunlin 500 Lapwing 300
10 January 2014
Today's sightings-New record!
Some of the thousands of waders on the Tack Piece currently taken by James Lees WWT New Reserve Record! Our reserve wardens counted a new site record of 323 Shovelers today. The Zeiss Hide Shoveler 60 Gadwall 8 Teal 1900 Avocet 4 The Tack Piece Shoveler
9 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
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
* 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