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Out on the reserve today
Our Tick & Twitch day is gathering steam - we're up to our 64th species for the day - a few highlights below. [...]
1 January 2012
Today's Sightings
Wader Lake - AM - Tide Level: Mid Lapwing - 21 Teal - 72 Shelduck - 17 Mallard - 100 Grey Heron - 1 Redshank - 14 Black-Headed Gull - 12 Hawthorn Wood Gr [...]
1 January 2012
Wildlife sightings for 1st January 2012
2 Pintail - male and female, marsh 1 Bittern - between Dulverton and WWF hides on south side of main lake, best seen from Peacock Tower 1 Peregrine - seen on two separate occasions fast and lo [...]
1 January 2012
Today's sightings
One of the very showy Bitterns taken by JSLeesWWT Send us your photographs If you have any good photographs of our wildlife, we would love to publish them here. send them to james.lees@wwt.org [...]
1 January 2012
Out on the reserve today
Water levels on the reserve are providing an ideal opportunity to witness thousands of grazing and dabbling wildfowl from our Reedbed and Lyle hides. Waders today have been seen mainly from Lyle [...]
31 December 2011
Marsh Harriers
The Marsh Harriers continue to show well at times with up to 5 birds still in the wider area, at least 4 were seen today along with a Hen harrier (prob imm male) which has been seen regularly now for [...]
31 December 2011
Today's bird sightings
Two Slavonian grebes were seen on the estuary at high tide. Other sightings include 125 lapwing, 8 greenshank, 37 curlew, 9 snipe, 3 sparrowhawk, peregrine, 4 little grebe, 2 great crested grebe, 54 s [...]
31 December 2011
Wildlife sightings for 31st December 2011
4 Pintail - 3 male, 1 female, marsh and reservoir lagoon 1 Peregrine - over site 1 Bittern - flew SW 2 Stonechat - marsh Recent bird highlights: Bittern, Peregrine, Jack Sni [...]
31 December 2011
Tack Piece back to its very best
Holden Tower and Robbie Garnett Hide. If you have never seen the Tack Piece at its very best now is a great time to put that right. Two very dry winters and some wet and mild weather over the pa [...]
31 December 2011
Castle Espie 'Here Comes Santa' Prize Winner
Castle Espie Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust (WWT), were delighted to host Santa and his team of helpers last weekend with over 250 children from across the province eagerly waiting to meet the man himself. Families enjoyed a day of magical storytelling,
30 December 2011
New species bring a touch of the exotic this New Year
Sleeping ducks by Mandy Byatt WWT Washington Wetland Centre’s waterbird collection has been given a New Year boost by the arrival of some exotic new species. Colourful paradise shelduck from New Zealand, Northern pi
30 December 2011
Today's Sightings
Wader Lake/AM/Mid Tide Lapwing - 15 Teal - 84 Mallard - 57 Shelduck - 8 Wigeon - 4 Grey Heron - 3 Black Headed Gull - 77 Goosesander - 1 (River) Hawthorn Wood G [...]
30 December 2011
Today's wildbird sightings
A Slavonian grebe was seen on the estuary at high tide. Starlings are continuing to roost nightly in the bittern reedbed and are still around 100,000 in number. Other highlights include 455 lapwing, 2 [...]
30 December 2011
Todays Sightings
Folly Pond GREEN-WINGED TEAL 1 Teal 300 Wigeon 200 Black-tailed Godwit 1 Snipe 3 Shoveler 20 Whooper Pond Whooper Swan 210 Wigeon 140 Pintail 1 Shoveler 10 Canada Goose 7 [...]
30 December 2011
Wildlife sightings for 30th December 2011
62 Wigeon - marsh 1 Pintail - marsh 1 Bittern - main lake 2 Peregrine - main lake, long shingle island in front of observatory 1 Jack Snipe - main lake 3 Stonechat - marsh 16 L [...]
30 December 2011