Latest sightings
Wednesday sightings
The Rushy Whooper Swan 1 Bewick's Swan 196 Tufted Duck 400 Pochard 280 Pintail 205 The Tack Piece Common Crane 9 Wigeon 1200 Teal 700 Pintail 80 Shoveler 25 Black-tailed Godwit 200 Curlew 50 Little Stint 1 Dunlin 600 Golden Plover 50 Lapwing 1500 Peregrin
21 January 2015
Today's sightings
Limited sightings to report due to all available staff being involved in a wildfowl catch on the Rushy Pen this morning. A number of ducks, geese and swans were caught, ringed and released back onto the lake this morning. Tack Piece Still the busiest spot
19 January 2015
Today's sightings
Holden Tower Dumbles Canada Goose 170 Shelduck 52 (afternoon) Lapwing 300 Peregrine 2 Tack Piece Lapwing 2100 Golden Plover 800 Dunlin 800 Little Stint 2 Redhank 58 Ruff 5 Black-tailed godwit 268 Peregrine 1 (3rd bird today) Teal 1100 Wigeon 1200 Pintail
18 January 2015
Morning update
Festival of Birds Jan 31st-Feb 1st Join us for our weekend Festival of Birds and enter our new Bird Race The Kingfisher Hide Barn Owl 1 Sparrowhawk 1 Buzzard 2 Lapwing 1000 Dunlin 300 Great-spotted Woodpecker 1 Treecreeper 1 Cetti's Warbler 1 The Zeiss H
17 January 2015
Sunny day & loads of birds!
The Holden Tower/Robbie Garnett Hides Lapwing 6000 Golden Plover 2800 Dunlin 1100 Little Stint 2 Black-tailed Godwit 250 Curlew 220 Redshank 35 Ruff 8 Teal 1000 Wigeon 600 Shoveler 35 Pintail 160 White-fronted Goose 156 Pink-footed Goose 1 The Rushy Whoop
16 January 2015
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