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Wildlife sightings for 23rd December 2011
2 Pintail - wader scrape 2 Mandarin - main lake 12 Snipe - main lake, grazing marsh 3 Stonechat - grazing marsh 5 Siskin - waterlife 1 Peregrine - on hospital accross river &nb [...]
23 December 2011
Todays sightings
Rushy Leser Scaup 1 ad female. Bewick swan 138 overnight. Pintail 80 Robbie Garnett Hide Bewick Swan 40 White-fronted Goose 161 Egyptian Goose 1 Wigeon 900 Teal 620 Pochard 100 [...]
23 December 2011
State of Birds in Wales 2011
The State of Birds in Wales report published yesterday charts the fortunes of Welsh birdlife, and the successes of, and challenges for, conservation action. The curlew has seen a 49% decline since 1994 For more than a
22 December 2011
Record number of White-fronts.
Another good day weather-wise, with all the birds present yesterday again in evidence around the reserve, and in similar numbers. A couple of extra counts were received on top of those from yesterday, [...]
22 December 2011
Todays Sightings
Bewick's Swan Yesterday we had a small family of Bewick's Swans drop in for about 20 minutes. The group consisted of two adults and two juveniles. Usually here at Caerlaverock we only tend [...]
22 December 2011
Wildlife sightings for 22nd December 2011
1 Jack Snipe - main lake infront of Dulverton hide 15 Snipe - grazing marsh, main lake 49 Lapwing - main lake, sheltered lagoon 2 Stonechat - grazing marsh 3 Siskin - entrance lake [...]
22 December 2011
Today's sightings
The Zeiss Hide BITTERN 2 They were seen fighting in the morning, and one showed execptionally well in the afternoon. ROE DEER 2 (very rare here) Teal 800 Pintail 40 Water Rail [...]
22 December 2011
Rare bird rescue hits new milestone
The Spoon-billed Sandpiper conservation breeding programme is a collaboration between WWT, Birds Russia, Moscow Zoo and the RSPB working with colleagues from the BTO, BirdLife International, ArcCona and the Spoon-billed Sandpiper Task Force. Efforts to sa
21 December 2011
Todays sightings
Wader Lake - Tide: Mid /Time: AM Starting to melt. Teal - 23 Shelduck - 7 Black-headed gull - 36 Lesser black backed gull - 1 Yesterday PM Curlew - evening roost - 600 [...]
21 December 2011
Some Counts
Much milder today and another excellent selection of birds. Some wildfowl and wader counts produced; 1340 Whooper Swan, 5200 Pink-footed Geese (mostly roosting), 680 Greylag, 4 Mute Swan, 40 Barnacle [...]
21 December 2011
Todays Sightings
Green-winged Teal For the last few month we have had a drake American Green-winged Teal residing on the Folly Pond. hen the bird was first seen one thing stood out on the bird and that was the ext [...]
21 December 2011
Wildlife sightings for 21st December 2011
253 Teal - grazing marsh, wader scrape 69 Wigeon - grazing marsh 1 Pintail - grazing marsh 2 Water Rail - grazing marsh 4 Cetti's Warbler - wildside, reedbed, main lake, sheltered [...]
21 December 2011
Today's sigtings
One of the 2091 Wigeons that are here currently, many thanks to Michael Colquhoun for sending in this great shot. Send us your photographs If you have any good photographs of our wil [...]
21 December 2011
Starling update
Since the end of November huge numbers of starlings have staged a series of very spectacular roosting displays over the Millennium Wetlands. Every evening birds, estimated on some occasions as up to 100,000, have flown in from fields around where they’v
20 December 2011
Predator and prey
Wow! That is what I was saying last night! I was watching the starlings coming into roost in the reedbed. What a fantastic spectacle and no matter how many times you watch them, there are always surprises. It was around 3.45pm and about two thousand sta
20 December 2011