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Today's Highlights
Tree sparrows Great white egret-3-Reedbed/Lady Fen/Friends hides Little egret-4 on Lady Fen Black-tailed godwit Avocet Redshank Lapwing Little ringed plover Chiffchaff Blackcap Willow warbler Cetti's warbler Sedge warbler Moorhen and chicks-below café wi
13 April 2017
Wildlife sightings - 13/04/17
a.m. Tide Level: Mid Wader Lake Avocet 18 Black-tailed godwit 26 Lapwing 26 Oystercatcher 4 Ringed plover 2 Common snipe 6 Redshank 5 Saline Lagoon Avocet 4 Lapwing 2 Hawthorn Wood Great-spotted woodpecker 2 Nuthatch 1 Bullfinch 10 Greenfinch 4 Goldfinch
13 April 2017
Update, Thursday April13th
Last year's pair of Ospreys are now established on their usual nest; we are privileged to have good quality live images beamed to to the screen in our visitor centre. One overflew the reserve yesterday, presumably having been fishing offshore. Marsh Harr
13 April 2017
Wildlife sightings for 13th April 2017
1 Curlew - main lake 2 Ringed Plover - main lake 2 Little Ringed Plover - main lake 2 Jack Snipe - grazing marsh 4 Redshank - grazing marsh, reservoir lagoon 1 Glaucous Gull - grazing marsh 4 Yellow Wagtail - grazing marsh 60c Sand Martin - 9 Willow War
13 April 2017
Sightings
The Med Gull bonanza continues with at least 10 birds in the last 2 days, including the 'polish' ringed male and female which are looking increasingly like they are getting ready to nest which would be a first for the reserve and possibly a first for any
12 April 2017
Simon Barnes visit WWT Steart Marshes
Alys Laver, WWT Steart Marshes Site Manager, today hosted a visit from the well-known Author and Journalist Simon Barnes who was visiting the site as research for an article on Working Wetlands that Simon is writing for a piece in the Sunday Times due to
12 April 2017
Today's Highlights
Avocet Oystercatcher Shelduck Lapwing Greylag goose Little egret Moorhen Coot Redshank White wagtail Pied wagtail Kingfisher Marsh harrier Cetti's warbler Ringed plover Pintail Black-tailed godwit Gadwall Shoveler Pochard Black-headed gull
12 April 2017
Recent Sightings - 9th April 2017
The following sightings were recorded today at Castle Espie. As spring approaches we are seeing more and more of our summer visitors returning. A blackcap has returned to the woodland in full voice and the first swallows of spring were spotted flyi
12 April 2017
Wildlife sightings - 12/04/17
AM, mid tide Wader Lake: Ringed plover 3 Avocet 21 Common snipe 5 Redshank 6 Oystercatcher 2 Pied wagtail 1 Black-tailed godwit 31 Kestrel 1 Northern lapwing 25 Stock dove 2 Saline lagoon: Black-tailed godwit 1 Avocet 4 Shoveler 2 Oystercatc
12 April 2017
Wildlife sightings for 12th April 2017
8 Yellow Wagtail - grazing marsh 1 Wheatear - grazing marsh 2 Swallow - main lake 2 Little Ringed Plover - grazing marsh 5 Redshank - grazing marsh, main lake 2 Snipe - grazing marsh 3 Willow Warbler - South route, wildside 10+ Blackcap - entrance l
12 April 2017
Kingfisher news and our latest arrivals
Holden Tower A 'new in' Greenshank dropped in mid morning and then toured the scrapes. Over the high tide a Whimbrel and 8 Curlew arrived on the foreshore. A male Wheatear was on the Dumbles as was 12 Lapwing, a Buzzard and Peregrine. 35+ Sand Martin and
11 April 2017
Sightings Tuesday 11th April
All hides remain open apart from Allport hide, Summer walk is closed. Sightings today: Mute swan Whooper swan Egyptian Goose Gadwall Pintail Shelduck Shoveler Tufted duck Great white egret Grey heron Little egret Kingfisher Avocet Black-tailed godwit Lapw
11 April 2017
Recent Sightings
Blackcap Cr. Russ Myners Millennium Wetlands Little Grebe 1 Cormorant 2 Little Egret 1 Grey Heron 1 Mute Swan 9 Greylag 2 Canada Goose 4 Shelduck 5 Gadwall 19 Pintail 2 Teal 4 Shoveler 3 Pochard 4 Tufted Duck 37 Buzza
11 April 2017
Wildlife sightings - 11/04/17
a.m. Wader Lake Black-tailed godwit 28 Avocet 23 Northern lapwing 25 Oystercatcher 4 Northern shoveller 4 Common snipe 2 Gadwall 2 Shelduck 16 Redshank 3 Kestrel 1 Saline Lagoon Northern lapwing 3 Oystercatcher 2 Avocet 2 Eurasian curlew 1 3rd winter he
11 April 2017
Autism-friendly LEGO® workshops
We’re pleased to be able to offer 2 awesome autism-friendly LEGO® brick workshops on Wednesday 19 April, 11am – 12noon and Saturday 22 April 11am - 12noon. The workshops feature lots of building, including your very own model to make and take home wi
11 April 2017