Latest sightings
Out on the reserve today
Crane - 13 (seen from Friends hide) Whooper swan - up to 200 coming in to roost from Friends hide towards the back of the reserve Kingfisher - 1 (becoming fairly regular) Yesterday - Barn owl late afternoon
10 October 2012
Out on the reserve today
Crane (up to eight birds in recent days) Wheatear (2) Gannet (a juvenile bird flew along the washes yesterday) Jay (8 birds in one flock) Peregrine (1)
2 October 2012
Out on the reserve today
Crane - 5 (moving between reserve and arable fields near the visitor centre) Green sandpiper - 4 (far side of reserve from main observatory) Teal - 3000, numbers of other wildfowl now building as well Peregrine falcon - 1
28 September 2012
Out on the reserve today
Crane - 3 (Friends hide) Avocet - 1, on the main lagoon along with increasing numbers of wildfowl. Lapwing are starting to flock up on the washes as well and today these are using the pools of water at the back of the reserve. Yesterdays sightings: Marsh
27 September 2012
Out on the reserve today
Crane - 5 (from friends hide this morning) Marsh harrier - 3 Peregrine falcon - 1
25 September 2012
Out on the reserve today
Spoonbill - 1 (main lagoon) Along with good numbers of wildfowl, wigeon, teal, shoveler and gadwall. Black-tailed godwit (Friends hide)
24 September 2012
Out on the reserve today
Crane - 3 (Lady Fen) Pectoral sandpiper - at least 1 (accessable via the summer walk) Dunlin - 1 Ringed plover
23 September 2012
Today's sightings
Pectoral sandpiper - 2 Curlew sandpiper - 2 Dunlin - 5 Ruff - 2 Snipe - 3 Ringed plover -10 Black-tailed godwit - 12 Water rail - 1(Lyle hide) Marsh harrier - 3 Buzzard - 2 Hobby - 1 Kingfisher - 2
22 September 2012
Today's sightings
Pectoral sandpiper - 2 Curlew sandpiper - 8 Dunlin - 6 Ringed plover - 42 Spoonbill - 3
21 September 2012
Yesterdays sightings
Pectoral sandpiper - 3 by the end of the day Black-tailed godwit Ruff Dunlin Ringed plover - 20 Teal - over 300 Shoveler - over 50 Pintail Marsh harrier - 2
20 September 2012
Pectoral sandpiper
Pectoral sandpiper - 1 (Far side of reserve from main observatory) Greensandpiper - 1 Spoonbill - 3 (Lyle hide) Little egret - 20 (Lyle hide) Good numebrs of teal, shoveler and some gadwall in the pools in front of the hides as well as lots of dragonflie
19 September 2012
Pectoral sandpipers
There are still 2 Pectoral sandpipers on the reserve and we are opening an extra section of the summer walk to allow closer access. This terrain will be wet and muddy and we ask visitors that they keep to the signposted route.
18 September 2012
Pectoral sandpiper and sightings
Pectoral sandpiper - 1 (far side of the reserve - ask in centre for best viewing spots) Spoonbill - 3 (Lyle hide) Greensandpiper - 3 Common sandpiper - 1 Black-tailed godwit - 12 Little egret - 8 Ringed plover - 12
18 September 2012
Out on the reserve today
Pectoral sandpiper - 2 Spoonbill - 3 Both the sandpipers and the spoonbill are on the pools of water tyo the far side of the reserve as seen from the main observatory. Crane - 1
17 September 2012
Cranes
Eurasian crane - 5 (moving between Lady Fen and the next field with straw bales)
16 September 2012