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Wildlife sightings for 19th February 2012
3 Shelduck - 2 flew over reservoir lagoon, 1 on main lake 6 Pintail - main lake 84 Cormorant - main lake 2 Bittern - 1 flew from S side main lake to reedbed channel nearest Wildside hide, [...]
19 February 2012
Today's sightings
Part of the Wigeon flock on The Tack Piece today Copyright JSLees WWT The Zeiss Hide BITTERN (2) Showing very well today Cetti's Warbler 1 Water Rail 1 Wigeon 150 The Tack Piec [...]
19 February 2012
Todays Sightings
Wader Lake Grey Heron - 27 Oystercatcher - 3 Lapwing - 18 Redshank - 9 Teal - 44 Wigeon - 8 Shoveler - 3 Shelduck - 19 Curlew (Evening roost 17/2/12) - 530 Rive [...]
18 February 2012
Today's Sightings
Showery at the start, hail storm near the end, breezy but sunny in between. A good goose day with around 3,500 Pink-footed Geese coming into roost. Two European White-fronted Geese and a Tundra Bean G [...]
18 February 2012
Wildlife sightings for 18th February 2012
3 Bittern - main lake, reedbed, reservoir lagoon 3 Pintail - main lake 2 Shelduck - grazing marsh 2 Stonechat - grazing marsh 4 Siskin - waterlife 2 Peregrine - sat on grazing mars [...]
18 February 2012
Todays Sightings
Road Fields Greylag Goose 170 Lapwing 50 Ruff 2 Curlew 72 Rushy Leser Scaup 1 ad female Bewicks Swan 170 Pintail 250 Oystercatcher 2 Holden Tower and Robbie Garnett Hide [...]
18 February 2012
Judges shower praise on Danita's Poem
Susan Barley from NFU Mutual presenting the prize to the winner Danita Teemul Poetic flair and green ideas helped Danita Teemul win our Work Your Butt competition. Danita, from Gloucester, doesn’t own a water butt b
17 February 2012
Today's sightings
1250 oystercatcher, 211 lapwing, 4 grey plover, 670 knot, 230 dunlin, 71 black tailed godwit, 53 curlew, 9 little egret, water rail, 91 brent goose, 34 greylag goose, 126 shelduck, 775 pintail, 104 wi [...]
17 February 2012
Wildlife sightings for 17th February 2012
3 Bittern - reservoir lagoon, main lake 3 Shelduck - reservoir lagoon, main lake 8 Pintail - wader scrape, main lake 78 Shoveler - site count 1 Green Sandpiper - grazing marsh 14 S [...]
17 February 2012
Todays Sightings
Holden Tower and Robbie Garnett Hide Whitefronted Goose 200 Barnacle, Canada, Greylags Wigean 1400 Shelduck 134 (0n estuary) Oystercatcher 2 Lapwing 1500 Golden Plover 90 Ruff 1 Re [...]
17 February 2012
Signs of pre-migratory behaviour
As the days become noticeably longer, the swans at Slimbridge are showing strong signs that they are about to embark on their spring migration back to arctic Russia. (G. Hann) Their days are now spent stretching their
16 February 2012
Dawn Swan Count
There was no dawn swan count this week. Due to frozen conditions few birds were roosting on site. We hope to count again on 21st Feb. [...]
16 February 2012
Todays Sightings
Wader Lake Mute Swan 2 Canada Goose 2 Greylag 4 Shelduck 19 Wigeon 7 Shoveler 3 Teal 40 Mallard 52 Oystercatcher&nbs [...]
16 February 2012
Bird News
A great variety of birds on the reserve today, the undoubted highlight being a Bittern in flight over Top Mere. Wader numbers are starting to increase, with 87 Ruff, 6 Black-tailed Godwit, 2 Curlew, 2 [...]
16 February 2012
Todays Sightings
Ross's Goose, M.Youdale © Copyright 2012 WWT Ross's Goose Today with the thousands of Barnacle Geese the adult ROSS'S GOOSE was again present. This bird has only been seen one [...]
16 February 2012