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Today's sightings
Dumbles and Tack Piece Huge numbers of birds commuting back and forth. Lapwing 5000 Golden Plover 1000 Dunlin 700 Ruff 7 Black-tailed Godwit 48 Starling 400 Wigeon 2200 Teal 370 [...]
29 December 2011
Today's sightings
Holden Tower At high tide 0900-1000hrs the party of 15 Grey Plover were showing along with 600 Dunlin, 2000 Lapwing, 1200 Golden Plover, 45 Great Black-backed Gull, 110 Barnacle Geese, 4 'contin [...]
28 December 2011
Todays sightings and 1 January Birdwatch Morning news
Highlights The Lesser Scaup female was on the Rushy all day. 2 Bitterns showed on and off all day at the Zeiss Hide and 140+ Bewick's Swans were on the Rushy. Holden Tower At high tide a l [...]
27 December 2011
4770 Lapwings cant be wrong
Continueing wet weather has created even more flooding with wading birds especially increasing accordingly. Robbie Garnett and Holden Tower Wigeon 1200 Teal 700 Lapwing 4590 Golden Plove [...]
26 December 2011
Todays sightings
Zeiss Hide Bittern 2 Showing well up to 09.30 at least Teal 600 Pimtail 25 Lapwing 1000 Golden Plover 50 Dunlin 500 Black Tailed Godwit 1 Cettis Warbler 1 Kingfisher Hide Cur [...]
24 December 2011
Todays sightings
Rushy Leser Scaup 1 ad female. Bewick swan 138 overnight. Pintail 80 Robbie Garnett Hide Bewick Swan 40 White-fronted Goose 161 Egyptian Goose 1 Wigeon 900 Teal 620 Pochard 100 [...]
23 December 2011
Today's sightings
The Zeiss Hide BITTERN 2 They were seen fighting in the morning, and one showed execptionally well in the afternoon. ROE DEER 2 (very rare here) Teal 800 Pintail 40 Water Rail [...]
22 December 2011
Today's sigtings
One of the 2091 Wigeons that are here currently, many thanks to Michael Colquhoun for sending in this great shot. Send us your photographs If you have any good photographs of our wil [...]
21 December 2011
Today's sightings
The Zeiss Hide BITTERN 1 The Kingfisher Hide BITTERN 1 The Tack Piece Ruff 9 Redshank 23 Dunlin 257 Lapwing 1800 Golden Plover 300 Wigeon 1100 Teal 1300 The Rushy [...]
20 December 2011
Today's sights/WeBS
Today's Wetland Bird Survey results from WWT Slimbridge Mute Swan 121 Bewick's Swan 129 European White-fronted Goose 189 Greylag Goose 343 Canada Goose 478 Barnacle Goose 126 M [...]
19 December 2011
Today's sightings
Above two images of the female Lesser Scaup on the Rushy, copyright JSLeesWWT Send us your photographs If you have any good photographs of our wildlife, we would love to publish them here. sen [...]
18 December 2011
Great Birding.
The female Lesser Scaup with Tufted Ducks taken today by JSLees copyright WWT Rushy LESSER SCAUP 1 adult female and showing well Bewicks Swan 125 Some new arrivals [...]
17 December 2011
Flooded Fields at last !
It looks like the drought is finally over. All the fields on trhe reserve have started to flood creating superb feeding conditions for increasing numbers of wildfowl and waders. Holden Tower and [...]
16 December 2011
Today's sightings
One of the Bitterns at the Zeiss Hide this morning copyright JSLeesWWT Send us your photographs If you have any good photographs of our wildlife, we would love to publish them here. send them [...]
15 December 2011
Today's sightings
The Rushy LESSER SCAUP 1 female still present and showing well Pochard 270 Tufted Duck 340 Pintail 260 Bewick's Swan 118 The Tack Piece White-fronted Goose 147 Grey [...]
14 December 2011