Latest sightings
Todays sightings
Wader Lake A.M/ High tide Avocet 8 + 4 chicks Oystercatcher 5 Lapwing 9 Common Tern 5 Gadwall 2 Shoveler 4 Grey Heron 46 Sheld [...]
26 April 2012
Avocet update
Four avocet chicks have now hatched in the first nest and are making tentative forays into the lake. There are still three clutches to go and our wardens are on standby to lower the water levels via t [...]
26 April 2012
Bittern
A bittern has just been flushed from Top Meadow, looks like it headed down to Wader Lake! [...]
24 April 2012
Avocet chick
Happy birthday to our first avocet chick of the season! Pics to follow and looks like mam is possibly brooding a second. [...]
24 April 2012
Todays Sightings
Wader Lake Avocet - 8 (first chick hatched) Oystercatcher - 4 Lapwing - 10 Redshank - 5 Common Tern - - 7 Shoveler - 15 Gadwall - 15 Shelduck - 9 Tufted Duck [...]
24 April 2012
More avocet chicks!
And then there were three! A bit hard to make out but there really is a trio of avocet chicks in this here nest. Thanks to Ian Hamilton, one of our volunteers, for donating the pic. The avocets, of co [...]
24 April 2012
Todays Sightings
Wader Lake AM Avocet - 8 Oystercatcher - 5 Common Tern - 1 Teal - 26 Lapwing - 16 Shelduck 24 Shoveler - 2 Swallow - 8 Grey Heron - 41 Tufted Du [...]
23 April 2012
Todays Sightings
Wader Lake Avocet - 8 Oystercatcher - 5 Lapwing - 10 Redshank - 10 Common Tern - 2 Grey Heron - 46 + 15 Chicks Gadwall - 4 Shoveler - 2 Swallow - 5 Stock Dove - [...]
21 April 2012
Latest Sightings
19.04.12 Wader Lake Avocet 8 Lapwing 14 Tern 1 Oystercatcher 5 Shelduck 22 Teal 5 Black Headed Gull 6 Shoveler 4 [...]
20 April 2012
Todays Sightings
Wader Lake AM Low Tide Avocet 8 Oystercatcher 5 Lapwing 10 Redshank 15 Shelduck 16 Tufted Duck 10 Gadwall 2 Shoveler 3 [...]
20 April 2012
Wheatear
A wheatear has been spotted down at the saline lagoon - a first for our site since the 1980s. [...]
20 April 2012
Todays Sightings
Wader Lake Avocet - 8 Black Tailed Godwit - 1 Redshank - 36 Lapwing - 21 Oystercatcher - 1 Curlew - 1 Shoveler - 4 Teal - 25 Shelduck - 18 Swallow - 1 Grey [...]
14 April 2012
Todays Sightings
Wader Lake - AM - Tide Level: High Avocet - 8 Black-Tailed Godwit - 1 Redshank - 18 Lapwing - 20 Oystercatcher - 6 Shelduck - 14 Grey Heron - 42 Adults & 13 [...]
13 April 2012
Todays Sightings
Wader Lake Avocet - 8 Curlew - 2 Black Tailed Godwit - 1 Common Snipe - 5 Redshank - 18 Lapwing - 15 Oystercatcher - 14 Shelduck - 14 Gadwall - 2 Shoveler - 4 [...]
12 April 2012
Todays Sightings
Wader lake AM High Tide Avocet - 8 Common Snipe - 10 Redshank - 27 Lapwing - 15 Grey Heron - 46 Shelduck - 20 Barn Owl - 2 [...]
11 April 2012