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Raptors
Plenty of raptors in action today. Three Peregrine causing pandemonium amongst the 900+ Lapwing and 2000+ Common Teal throughout most of the day, suggesting that at least one of them hadn't eaten. [...]
21 November 2011
Todays Sightings
Folly Pond GREEN-WINGED TEAL 1 Teal 170 Wigeon 250 Whooper Swan 111 Black-tailed Godwit 34 Whooper Pond Whooper Swan 50 Wigeon 100 Tufted Duck 60 Avenue Tower Teal 200 [...]
21 November 2011
Wildlife sightings for 21st November 2011
3 redhead Smew - reservoir lagoon. The UK wintering population of these birds is around 180 individuals over the previous few winters. The threshold for national significance for a site is two birds. [...]
21 November 2011
Today's sightings
Zeiss Hide Black-tailed Godwit 65 Redshank 32 Dunlin 12 Teal 670 Water Rail 2 Pintail 12 Bewick's Swan 20 Plus Mallard, Wigeon, Greylag, Buzzard, Fieldfare and Cetti's Warble [...]
21 November 2011
White-fronts drop in
Six European White-fronted Geese dropped in at 2.15pm onto Plover Field with around 100 Pink-footed Geese. Also 4 Barnacle Geese with Pink's. An early morning count had 3,600 Pink-footed Geese [...]
20 November 2011
Today's wild bird sightings
c300 wigeon 61 gadwall teal shoveler shelduck mallard tufted duck pochard 94 greylag goose peregrine sparrowhawk buzzard 4 green [...]
20 November 2011
Todays Sightings
Whooper Pond Whooper Swan 31 Mute Swan 10 Wigeon 30 Tufted Duck 40 Teal 3 Pintail 1 Folly Pond GREEN-WINGED TEAL 1 Teal 430 Wigeon 320 Snipe 2 Shoveler 15 Pintail 3 B [...]
20 November 2011
Wildlife sightings for 20th November 2011
1 Bittern - flushed from west corner of reservoir lagoon, went E along reed edge 1 Shelduck - main lake 1 Pintail - main lake 1 Kingfisher - in coniferous forest exhibit of world wetlands [...]
20 November 2011
Today's sightings WeBS Count
WeBS (Wetland Bird Survey) count Day A full count of all the wetland birds undertaken today. Wildfowl counts below. Little Grebe 4 Great Crested Grebe 1 Cormorant 25 Little Egret 3 Gre [...]
20 November 2011
What’s the trick to counting flocks of birds?
Volunteers and staff will spend this Monday, November 21, spotting and recording the hundreds of waterbirds that migrate to WWT Arundel in winter. Staff and visitors at all nine WWT wetland reserves will be taking part in the annual Wetland Bird Sur
19 November 2011
Ho-ho-ho Huskies!
Start the festive season with a visit to see Santa and the huggable huskies during Winter Wonderland Weekend, December 3-4 at WWT Arundel Wetland Centre. Come and meet these friendly dogs of the north. These gorgeous sled dogs will give children the chanc
19 November 2011
Some familiar faces
This week we've had local media visiting, filming the swans return to Welney and the spectacle at dusk (as it is at its best at the moment). They got some good footage of hundreds and hundreds of swans, whoopers and Bewick's feeding in the arable lan
19 November 2011
Out on the reserve today
Plenty of whooper swans and a few Bewick's at this morning's swan's awake event, although the foggy conditions didn't help, but it did keep the swans in a bit longer than if it had bee [...]
19 November 2011
Todays sightings
Wader Lake AM High Tide Teal 55 Mallard 11 Shelduck 7 Widgeon 3 Gadwall 5 Shovler 3 Redshank 38 Mute Swan (River) 2 Adults 1 Juvenile Cormorant (River) 5 Goosan [...]
19 November 2011
Short-eared Owl and other birds
Another calm day packed with activity. A Short-eared Owl was hunting from 3.30pm. Three Marsh Harrier, 2 Peregrine, Kestrel, 2 Sparrowhawk and at least 4 Common Buzzard with two seen fighting with tal [...]
19 November 2011