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Todays Sightings
Rushy Common Turn 1 Mediteranean Gull 1 2nd summer Holden Tower Barnacle 28 Zeiss Hide Gadwall 18 Teal 4 Grey Heron 1 Reed Warbler 3 Sedge Wabler 2 South La [...]
22 June 2012
Today's sightings
Holden Tower Crane 4 Zeiss Hide Avocet 6 Teal 3 Shoveler 4 Gadwall 48 Tufted Duck 5 broods South Lake Mediterranean Gull 1st summer Great Crested Grebe [...]
21 June 2012
Today's sightings
Holden Tower Cranes 4 Goldcrest 1 Zeiss Hide/Top New Piece Avocet two pairs and three young (7 in total) Shoveler 3 Gadwall brood of ducklings Tufted Duck now 4 broods of ducklings [...]
20 June 2012
Today's sightings
Kingfisher Hide Avocet 5 Cuckoo 1 The Holden Tower Common Crane 4 Grey Plover 1 Breeding Plumage Curlew 47 Dunlin 6 Ringed Plover 1 Shelduck 70 Barnacle Goose 110 The Rob [...]
19 June 2012
Today's sightings-Autumn passage starts!
Here is our Avocet family that have succesfully fledged three young JSLees WWT South Lake Green Sandpiper 1 The first Autumn passage wader arrived today, should see at least 50 here in the com [...]
18 June 2012
Today's sightings
The Holden Tower Common Crane 4 (GCP) Dunlin 12 Ringed Plover 3 Curlew 27 Barnacle Goose 28 Peregrine 1 The Zeiss Hide Avocet 9 The South Finger Cuckoo 1 The Rushy [...]
17 June 2012
Todays Sightings
Holden Tower Curlew 17 G B B Gull 19 Oystercatcher 2 Lapwing 1 ad (with chicks) Crane 1 + 3 flying. Canoe Trail Gadwall brood. Tufted Duck 23 + 3 broods Great Crested Grebe 2 [...]
16 June 2012
Todays Sightings
Holden Tower Crane 3 Barnacle Geese 28 Curlew 12 Buzzard 1 Martin Smith Hide Reed Bunting 1 Sedge warbler 1 Reed warbler 1 Zeiss Hide Black Tailed Godwit 19 Avocet 4 ad [...]
15 June 2012
They have done it!
Avocet News! We are very pleased to announce that our very first breeding pair of Avocets have fledged three young. This is the first time this species has bred in Gloucestershire. They laid four [...]
14 June 2012
Today's sightings
Holden Tower Cranes 2 from the Great Crane Project Hare on the saltmarsh shelf Zeiss Hide Avocet pair Teal 3 Redshank 4 Shoveler pair Little Egret 1 South Lake M [...]
13 June 2012
Today's sightings
Holden Tower The Cranes (at least three, often four) are feeding on the Dumbles close to the scrape. They have a routine and can usually be found here. There is some commuting about the reserve bu [...]
12 June 2012
Today's sightings
The Bottom New Piece Blue-winged Teal x Shoveler 1 male Avocet 2 with their 3 well grown young Black-tailed Godwit 12 Top New Piece Avocet 2 (7 on site) Great-crested Grebe 2 Dum [...]
11 June 2012
Todays Sightings
Zeiss Hide Red Necked Phalarope 1 female Shoveler 3 Lapwing 12 Estuary High tides and strong winds have caused a lot of seabirds to be blown into the estuary. Most of the activity ha [...]
9 June 2012
Todays Sightings
Holden Tower Crane 2 (different 2 from yesterday) feeding close to the scrape Oystercatcher 2 Peregrine 1 very scruffy immature female. Shelduck 70 Curlew 16 Dinlin 32 Estuary [...]
8 June 2012
Red Necked Phalarope
Red Necked Phalarope A superb female was found on the South Lake this morning 11.00. South Lake Red Necked Phalarope 1 ad female. Black Tailed Godwit 10 Oysterc atcher 2 Holden Tow [...]
5 June 2012