Latest sightings
Floods of water & birds
Festival of Birds Jan 31st-Feb 1st Join us for our weekend Festival of Birds and enter our new Bird Race The Tack Piece Whooper Swan 2 Bewick's Swan 173 Pintail 150 Wigeon 600 Teal 1200 Shoveler 40 Little Stint 1 Dunlin 700 Black-tailed Godwit 250 Lapwin
15 January 2015
2 Whoopers now!
A new unringed Whooper Swan on the Tack Piece this morning. Festival of Birds Jan 31st-Feb 1st Join us for our weekend Festival of Birds and enter our new Bird Race The Tack Piece Whooper Swan 1 new unringed individual Bewick's Swan 60 Golden Plover 280
13 January 2015
Today's sightings
The Rushy Pen Bewick’s Swan 170+ (most spending the day on Tack Piece or Ox Piece) Whooper Swan left roost at 0820am Pintail Pochard Tufted Duck Shelduck Mallard Gadwall Teal Lapwing Holden Tower Golden Plover 1000 Lapwing 2800 Dunlin 800 Barnacle Goo
12 January 2015
Today's sightings-busy Tack Piece
This Greylag Goose was using its powerful bill to grate a tuber that it had successfully dug up beneath the Robbie Garnett Hide. The serrated edge of the lower mandible (lower section of beak) was used to scrape off the juicy bits, it could then eat the m
11 January 2015
A day of two halves
The Kingfisher Hide Barn Owl 1 showed well The Tack Piece Little Stint 2 Ruff 14 Lapwing 1400 Dunlin 300 Black-tailed Godwit 250 Curlew 60 Redshank 35 Common Crane 9 Wigeon 900 Teal 500 Buzzard 2 Peregrine 1 Marsh Harrier 2 The Rushy Whooper Swan 1 Bewic
10 January 2015
Waders everywhere
Join us for our weekend Festival of Birds and enter our new Bird Race The Holden Tower/Robbie Garnett Hide Marsh Harrier 1 Buzzard 5 Peregrine 2 Lapwing 4500 Golden Plover 2500 Dunlin 1000 Curlew 250 Black-tailed Godwit 200 Little Stint 1 Common Crane 6
9 January 2015
Today's sightings
The South Lake Pink-footed Goose 1 first winter Greylag Goose 100 Redshank 3 Great-crested Grebe 1 The Rushy Bewick's Swan 160 The Tack Piece Little Stint 1 Dunlin 400 Lapwing 1400 Golden Plover 600 Ruff 7 Black-tailed Godwit 220 Curlew 70 Wigeon 600 Teal
8 January 2015
Today's highlights & new Bird Race!
Bird Race & Festival of Birds Join us for our weekend Festival of Birds and enter our new Bird Race The Rushy Bewick's Swan 170 The Tack Piece Little Stint 1 Common Crane 7 The Holden Tower White-fronted Goose 140 Peregrine 1 Marsh Harrier 1 The Zeis
7 January 2015
Today's sightings
A rapid hide round between 0815 and 0945 produced.... Asian pen Female Ferruginous Duck among the Baer's Pochard at 0930 Willow Hide Water Rail under the feeders Holden Tower Marsh Harrier-2 hunting over the Dumbles and around the reserve Peregrine 2 Gold
6 January 2015
Today's sightings-interesting Wigeon
Ferruginous Duck- female seen from c0940-1030am in the Asian Pen. It flew off shortly after a female Tufted Duck spooked and left the pen, it headed east toward South Lake. A brief search of South Lake subsequently never re-located it but it may have go
5 January 2015
Today's sightings
Ferruginous Duck-the female was again in the Asian pen today. Holden Tower Marsh Harrier-2 seen on and off all day hunting over the whole area Peregrine-2 Buzzard 2 Kestrel 1 Golden Plover 250 Dunlin 800 (also feeding on the estuary and Tack Piece) Lap
4 January 2015
New flooding = lots of birds
Rushy Bewicks Swan 190 Whooper Swan 1 (flew out 08.30) now viewable from Sloane Tower 1 km to N.E. Pochard 60 Teal 30 Redshank 1 Robbie Garnett Hide Wigeon 1350 Teal 860 Lapwing 1600 Ruff 8 Redshank 21 Dunlin 170 Crane 5 Marsh Harrier 2 great views both
3 January 2015
Ferruginous Duck and Bittern
Rushy Bewicks Swan 176 overnight 196 on site Redshank Dunlin 12 Robbie Garnett Hide Crane great display here this morning all 9 bird present. Wigeon 450 Teal 340 Lapwing 600 Golden Plover 70 Ruff 4 Redshank 6 Dunlin 170 Water Rail 1 showing well at Willo
2 January 2015
New Year Day sightings
The Rushy Pen Bewick's Swans- not many in this morning with the flock seeming nervous, the firework displays last night may well have spooked them. A flock of over a 100 were in fields NE of the centre and c50 on the Tack Piece. Whooper Swan was not seen
1 January 2015
Today's sightings-New Year's Eve
After three nights of cold and clear conditions we are now thawing out, the cold snap has encouraged some species to make their way to Slimbridge but has also thinned out the vast wader flocks. This is typical behaviour during such a weather event. The t
31 December 2014