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Today's Sightings
Wader Lake Time/AM Tide/Low Black-tailed Godwit - 20 Common Snipe - 4 Redshank - 12 Lapwing - 60 Dunlin - 2 Teal - 17 Shoveler - 2 Stock Dove (meadow) - 1 Saline Lagoon Time/AM Tide/Low Kingfisher - 1 male Grey Heron
6 October 2017
Recent Sightings (4th- 6th Oct)
British Steel Hide A few highlights from the hide from the past few days have included two Curlew Sandpipers, a Turnstone, two Grey Plovers, two Bar-tailed Godwits, a Spotted Redshank and the return of the Black-tailed Godwits, with the highest count b
6 October 2017
Wildlife sightings for 6th October 2017
2 Water Rail - sheltered lagoon, main lake 1 Little Egret - wader scrape 140+ Wood Pigeon - migrants feeding on the marsh 7 Song Thrush - South route 3 Meadow Pipit - grazing marsh 2 Swallow - main lake 1 Grey Wagtail - grazing marsh 1 Siskin - South rou
6 October 2017
Latest Sightings - 6th October - Influx overnight!
A massive influx of birds overnight means we now have 63 Whooper Swans split between the Whooper Pond and the Folly Pond. A few families of Whoopers have already made the trip down from Iceland. There are also hundreds of Pink-footed Geese resting on the
6 October 2017
Wildlife sightings - 5/10/17
(AM low tide) Wader Lake: Black-tailed godwit 6 Common snipe 4 Lapwing 14 Redshank 10 Teal 12 Saline lagoon: Curlew 15 Wigeon 3 Black-headed gull 16 Redshank 5 Hawthorn Wood: Bullfinch 10 Goldfinch 4 Greenfinch 6 Willow tit 2 Coal tit
5 October 2017
Today's Sightings
Cranes-27 (Lyle hide) Ruff Black-tailed godwit Shoveler Teal Wigeon Pied wagtail Tree sparrow Greylag goose Whooper swan Linnet Kestrel Marsh harrier Peregrine Little egret Little grebe Snipe Lapwing Stonechat Green sandpiper
5 October 2017
Wildlife sightings for 5th October 2017
1 Dunlin - wader scrape 6 Redpoll - over SW 4 Swallow - over S 1 Wheatear - grazing marsh 2 Stonechat - grazing marsh 16 Meadow Pipit - over SW/S 4 Linnet - grazing marsh 4 Snipe - marsh 6 Chiffchaff - wildside, world wetlands 1 Peregrine - hunting ov
5 October 2017
High tide waders
A reasonably high tide this morning pushed birds off the river and on to the scrapes around the reserve. Highlights included 10 Little Stint and 4 Curlew Sandpiper from the Zeiss Hide and 3 Avocet amongst the Black-headed Gulls on the South Lake. South
5 October 2017
Wet and Windy
The migration door was well and truely shut today with blustery wind and showers throughout the day. Whooper Swan numbers edged up to 38 birds including the first family party with 3 juveniles and ~ 5000 Pink-footed Geese roosted on the reserve.
4 October 2017
Todays sightings
Mute swan Whooper swan Mallard Shoveler Gadwall Teal Wigeon Crane (x31) Grey heron Little egret Avocet Black-tailed godwit Ruff Snipe Moorhen Green sandpiper Lapwing Black-headed gull Kingfisher Tree sparrow House sparrow Goldfinch Linnet Blue tit Great t
4 October 2017
Reserve Update Wednesday 4th October
Whooper Swan numbers are starting to creep up a little, with four birds joining us for the 2pm feed yesterday. This morning there are fifteen Whoopers around the reserve with best views from the Avenue Tower first thing. Hopefully they may join us for
4 October 2017
Wildlife sightings for 4th October 2017
2 Siskin - flew over heading SW 1 Redpoll - flew over south route 13 Meadow Pipit - flew over heading S 7 Snipe - grazing marsh, wader scrape, main lake 1 Kestrel - South route 8 Chiffchaff - South route, sheltered lagoon 5 Blackcap - South route, shelt
4 October 2017
Child 'architects' check on new wetlands
School pupils turned construction managers last week when they dropped in on a new wetland project that they helped design. More than 500 pupils from Prince of Wales Primary School visited the site of the new Prince of Wales community wetlands, which are
4 October 2017
Recent Sightings (30th Sep- 3rd Oct)
British Steel Hide Wader numbers have been relatively low because of low tides, the most noticeable drop being Black-tailed Godwits. A few weeks ago numbers were in the thousands, but the highest count recently was around the 50 mark on the 30th Sep. In
3 October 2017
First Whooper Swan groups and Pink-footed Geese
True to form the weather for Iceland and the North Atlantic provided good condition for an exodus of Pink-footed Geese and the seasons first groups of Whooper Swan. At the time of writing 23 Whooper and c.6000 Pink-footed Geese had arrived although some o
3 October 2017