Latest sightings
Todays sightings
Golden plover Black-tailed godwits - 1200+ Dunlin - 40 Ruff Redshank Snipe Curlew Wigeon Teal Shoveler Pintail Tufted duck Pochard Whooper swan Mute swan Shelduck - 2 (Friends hide) Marsh harrier - 2 Buzzard - 1 (Friends hide) Peregrine - 1 (Friends hide)
20 November 2014
Todays sightings
Water rail being ringed Bird ringing station: Water rail - 1 Great tit - 8 Blue tit - 11 Goldcrest - 2 Wren - 2 Robin - 1 House sparrow - 2 Blackbird - 2 Dunnock - 3 Chaffinch - 2 Goldfinch - 3 (BTO are back again tom
15 November 2014
Todays sightings
A beautiful sunset for the 3:30 feed a fantastic sight seeing the swans fly in after their feed on the fields during the day. Great views of a barn owl gliding around the reedbed to the right of the main observatory hunting for voles 8 cranes flew over
14 November 2014
Todays sightings
9 cranes flew infront of the main observatory and landed infront of Lyle hide
13 November 2014
Wetland bird count
Today Louise the warden went out on a 13 mile hike around the washes to record how many wildfowl and waders are onsite. Redwing 102 Fieldfare 135 Mistle Thrush 1 Mute swan 74 Heron 8 Mallard 991 Wigeon 4563 Shelduck 2 Cormorant 52 Pintail 14 Greylag geese
12 November 2014
Dawn swan count
This morning we went out at the crack of dawn to count how many swans were roosting on the reserve. We need to get there before they fly off to the surrounding fields to feed on potatoes and sugar beet tops. Whooper swans 3253 Bewick's swans 99 Mute swa
11 November 2014
Rough-legged buzzard and more
Rough-legged buzzard - 1 (to the back of Lady Fen) Whooper swan - 2000+ Bewick's swan - 20+
7 November 2014
Today's sightings
Lady Fen Bewick's swans - 5 (2 adults with 3 cygnets) Main observatory Dunlin - 18 Ruff - 3 Black-tailed godwit - 300 Pintail - 7 Gadwall - 4 Shoveler Pochard Wigeon Teal Mallard Whooper swan Lyle & Friends hides Great crested grebe - 1 Tufted duck -
6 November 2014
Rough-legged buzzard
Highlights for today include a Rough-legged buzzard showing well on lady fen perched in a tree best seen from the café verandah. Swan dawn count 1662 Whooper swans 10 Bewick's swan - Friends hide
2 November 2014
Todays sightings
Goldeneye female at main obs Otter prints from foot bridge Snipe
1 November 2014
Todays sightings - Rough-legged buzzard
Rough-legged buzzard Great white egret
31 October 2014
Todays sightings
Rough-legged buzzard Great white egret - 1 (Lady Fen) Plenty of whooper swans coming in for the feeds each day now. The reserve is looking great with just a splash of winter flooding on the washes at the back of the reserve, still plenty of ground above
30 October 2014
Todays sightings
Great white egret - Lady fen Merlin
29 October 2014
Todays sightings
Great white egret - 1 Golden plover 3000+ Marsh harriers - 5 Nelson-lyle hide Lapwing Kestrel Green sandpiper - Friends hide Kingfisher
28 October 2014
Todays sightings
Little grebe - 2 Pintail - lyle hide Bearded tit - 6
26 October 2014