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Wildlife sightings for 20th October 2018
4 Water Rail - main reedbed & filter beds 1 Wheatear - grazing marsh 7 Snipe - main lake, grazing marsh 28 Redwing - flew over South West 1 Stonechat - wader scrape 2 Siskin - sheltered lagoon 1 Peregrine - perched on hospital 1 Buzzard - over reserv
20 October 2018
Early Fog later sunshine?
Heavy fog first thing hope it lifts later Rushy Black Tailed Godwit 3 Redshank 1 Little Grebe Mallard 150 Pintail 2 Teal 110 Martin Smith Snipe 3 Jack Snipe 1 Water Rail 2 Cettis Warbler 1 South Lake Pochard 6 Passing over Redpoll 1 Redwing 1
20 October 2018
Latest Sightings
A noticeable build up in numbers of many of our Winter visitors is taking place at the moment with a fantastic combination of large numbers of birds and nice weather. Whoopers in the mist Wildfowl are, as always, the
19 October 2018
Today's Highlights
Ruff-20 Black-tailed godwit-5 Lapwing-400 Dunlin Snipe-4 Coot Moorhen Common crane-1 Cormorant Shelduck Wigeon Teal Gadwall Pochard Shoveler Tufted duck Mallard Whooper swan Mute swan Greylag geese Canada geese Barnacle goose-1 Marsh harrier-4 Kestrel Spa
19 October 2018
Recent sightings 17th-19th October
British Steel Hide Good numbers of waders have been seen from the Steel Hide, with 534 Black-tailed Godwit, 313 Knot, as well as Redshank, Curlew, Greenshank and Spotted redshank. Grey wagtail are making good use of our new Dafen scrapes. 3 Swallow
19 October 2018
Wildlife sightings - 19/10/2018
a.m. Tide Level: low Wader Lake Teal 23 Redshank 1 Lapwing 9 Black headed gull 30 Saline Lagoon Wood pigeon 20 Hawthorn Wood Nuthatch 2 Coal tit 3 Willow tit 2 Chaffinch 4 Goldfinch 2 Bullfinch 3 Great tit 5 Blue tit 3 Other birds noted around site Cormor
19 October 2018
Wildlife sightings - 18/10/18
a.m. Tide Level: Mid Wader Lake Teal 12 Lapwing 51 Black-headed gull 162 Redshank 5 Curlew 1 Black-tailed godwit 3 Saline Lagoon Curlew 1 Redshank 2 Hawthorn Wood Great tit 5 Blue tit 5 Coal tit 3 Willow tit 2 Bullfinch 6 (2 male + 4 female) Nuthatch 1 Ro
19 October 2018
Latest Sightings - Friday 19th October - Whooper Swan families arrive
Plenty of Barnacle Geese around the reserve this morning and an influx of Whooper Swans overnight. We now have 58 on the reserve. This includes 3 family groups; with two cygnets, five cygnets & a massive family with eight cygnets. Well done those par
19 October 2018
Wildlife sightings for 19th October 2018
8 Snipe - main lake, grazing marsh, wader scrape 3 Water Rail - main reedbeds 1 Stonechat - wader scrape 24 Redwing - flew over heading South 7 Meadow Pipit - 3 on grazing marsh 4 flew over heading West 6 Siskin - South route 4 Chiffchaff - South route, s
19 October 2018
Today's sightings
Mute swan Whooper swan Greylag Canada goose Shoveler Mallard Gadwall Teal Wigeon Moorhen Cormorant Grey heron Little egret Black-tailed godwit Ruff Snipe Lapwing Black-headed gull Common gull Starling Cetti's warbler Meadow pipit Pied wagtail House sparro
18 October 2018
Wildlife sightings for 18th October 2018
1 Caspian Gull 1st winter - main lake 1 Buzzard - roosted in wildside, flew off N a.m. 2 Jack Snipe - main lake 1 Red-crested Pochard - main lake 6 Skylark - feeding in front of headley hide a.m. (1), others flying NW/W (5) 1 Stonechat - wader scrape 4 Me
18 October 2018
Reserve Update Thursday 18th October - Redwing
Wigeon are moulting back into their breeding plumage with the males looking stunning with their yellow head stripe back. We keep scanning through the flocks in case the recent storms have blown in any American visitors to join them and the Teal, but no
18 October 2018
Thursday's sightings
South Lake Hides Greenshank, 27 Redshank, 21 Ruff, 2 Crane, 158 Lapwing, 254 Teal, Wigeon, 6 Pintail, 91 Shoveler, 18 Black-tailed Godwit, 14 Pochard, 16 Shelduck, 9 Snipe. . Zeiss Hide Digger work continuing today but still 5 Dunlin, Redshank, 9 Ruff on
18 October 2018
Spoonbill and Fieldfare....
More calm weather making for great viewing around the reserve. The forecast looks good into the weekend. A Spoonbill flew over the Mere around 4.30pm before heading off towards Woodend Marsh, an unusual autumn visitor but one that is increasing in number
17 October 2018
Sightings for Wednesday 17th October
Damp start to the day but started to dry out and brighten up by mid afternoon. Sightings today: Mute swan Whooper swan Greylag goose Canada goose Mallard Shoveler Teal Wigeon Great egret Little egret Moorhen Kingfisher Black-tailed godwit Golden pl
17 October 2018