Latest sightings
Cranes incubating.
Rushy Cranes still incubating well. A thermal imaging camera is revealing some interesting nocturnal behavior, The male roosted alongside the female all night who left to feed for two hours at dawn. watch from the Rushy wooden hide or Peng Observatory. A
23 May 2013
Garganey, Common Cranes and Avocets
Zeiss hide GARGANEY 1 drake black tailed godwit 27 shelduck 37 lapwing with chick South Finger/Kingfisher hide kingfisher incubating in nest reed, sedge, cettis, willow warblers and blackcap all singing and showing South Lake view from Hogarth hide AVOCET
21 May 2013
Breeding Cranes the first in the west for 400 years
Rushy Two Cranes from the Great Crane Project have built a nest and laid at least one egg in the Rushy. The pair, Monty the male and Christine the female have been the most active pair and were responsible for the earlier nest building efforts in front of
20 May 2013
Todays Sightings
Holden Tower Cranes 9 Peregrine 1 Little Egret 1 Oystercatcher 2 Summer Walkway (now open) Curlew 10 Shelduck 80 Reed Warbler 8 Zeiss Hide Black Tailed Godwit 56 Redshank 1 Garganey 1 male Little Egret 1 Sedge Warbler 3 Reed Warbler 6 Kingfisher Hide King
19 May 2013
Today's Sightings
Please Note: Black-Caps, Sedge warblers and Reed warblers can be seen and heard all over the site at the moment. Rushy Pen Avocet Black Tailed Godwit (2) Knott Hide Cetti's Warbler Shelduck (25) Holden Tower Oystercatcher (2) Shoveler (2) Shelduck (60)
17 May 2013
Todays Sightings
Holden Tower Great views again this morning of the young male Goshawk, very close to the tower. Little Grebe 2 Oystercatcher 2 Lapwing 12 Zeiss Hide Avocet 1 Black Tailed Godwit 48 Teal 10 Kingfisher Hide Little Grebe 2 Kingfisher 1 (10.00) South Lake Hid
16 May 2013
Todays Sightings
Very quiet over the last few days but picking up today. South lake Hide will be closed for the next day or to to be re-fitted. The Lake and scrape can still be viewed from the Hogarth Hide at the at the the top of the loop way path through the collectio
15 May 2013
Todays Sightings
Holden Tower Wheatear 1 lapwing 16 Crane 3 flying over. Zeiss Hide Black Tailed Godwit 2 Lapwing 12 Oystercatcher 2 Mute 2 (chicks hatching on nest under hide) South Lake Black Tailed Godwit 9 Oystercatcher 6 Black Headed Gull 70
13 May 2013
Todays sightings.
Some good movements of seabirds reported yesterday. Great, Arctic and Pomerine all recorded, also an Adult Gannet Holden Tower Tawny Owl 1 along walkway in ivy. Listen out for alarming blackbirds. Lesser Whitethroat 1 Cettis 1 Oystercatcher 2 (incubatin
11 May 2013
Todays sightings
Rushy Black headed Gull colony now very active. Common Crane 1 Holden Tower Wigeon 6 Marsh Harrier 1 female Riged Plover 4 Dunlin 2 Greenshank 1 over Tack Piece Cettis 1 Reed Warbler South Lake Great Crested Grebe 2 Black Tailed Godwit 9 Zeiss Hide Teal 2
7 May 2013
Today's sightings
Holden Tower Little Ringed Plover 1 Peregrine 1 Wigeon 4 Shoveler 5 Lesser Whitethroat 1 South Lake Arctic Tern 1 Black-tailed Godwit 21 Oystercatcher 2 Rushy Black-tailed Godwit 11 Redshank 1 Plus at least 14 Cranes from the Great Crane Project on site t
3 May 2013
Update and lack of updates!
Just popped in for a quick look around the hide and was asked several times why our sightings page had not been updated. For those of you not on Twitter (@slimbridge_wild) can’t be many of you left now with 4,064 people following us for the very latest
2 May 2013
Today's sightings
Holden Tower Wigeon 6 Black-tailed Godwit 1 Peregrine 1 Cetti's Warbler 1 Willow Hide Reed Warbler 3 Blackcap 2 Sedge Warbler 1 Reed Bunting 2 South Lake Arctic Tern 3 Black-tailed Godwit 22 Great Crested Grebe 2 Oystercatcher 6 Zeiss Hide Teal 47 Avocet
2 May 2013
Today's sightings
Holden Tower Shoveler 5 Wigeon 5 Peregrine Little Egret South Lake Arctic Tern 3 Black-tailed Godwit 43 Oystercatcher 2 Zeiss Hide Avocet 5 Little Egret Teal 28 Reed Warbler 4 Lapwing 6 Shelduck 27 Common Crane 2 (Great Crane Project birds) Kingfisher Hid
1 May 2013
Today's sightings
Car Park Great for warblers at the moment. Reed, Sedge, Blackcap, Willow, Chiffchaff, Cettis Whitethroat and Lesser Whitethroat all singing around here. Bullfinch 1 male singing. Martin Smith Cranes 2 Rushy Black tailed Godwit 1 Oystercatcher 2 Crane 1 Wi
25 April 2013