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Wildlife sightings for 5th September 2017
2 Spotted Flycatcher - reservoir lagoon 1 Common Sandpiper - grazing marsh 2 Whinchat - grazing marsh 4 House Martin - main lake 1 Swift - reservoir lagoon August bird highlights: Common Sandpiper, Green Sandpiper, Dunlin, Black-tailed Godwit, Sn
5 September 2017
A dusky redshank
Zeiss Hide/Top New Piece The Teal flock numbered over 300 but they move back and forth from the Bottom New Piece and here, 60+ Shoveler and the Garganey is still with them. Some vegetation cutting work was undertaken here today in preparation for the Seve
4 September 2017
Today's Highlights
Tree sparrow x 23 Little egret Cormorant House martin Pied wagtail Goldfinch Lapwing Stock dove Little ringed plover Snipe Ruff Black-tailed godwit Green sandpiper Wigeon Teal Mallard Shelduck Shoveler Gadwall Moorhen Coot Whooper swan Bewick's swan Mute
4 September 2017
Exciting new play area launched at WWT Llanelli Wetland Centre!
An overgrown woodland, which has been closed to the public for 20 years, has been transformed into a wild trek for adventurous youngsters at the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust’s Llanelli Wetland Centre in Carmarthenshire. The Explore play area is a maze of
4 September 2017
Recent Sightings 4th September 2017
The following sightings were recorded today from the reserve at Castle Espie - good count on the Estuary this morning! Estuary - visible from the Brent Hide and the Limekiln Observatory 339 Oystercatcher, 12 Black-headed gull, 9 Cormorant, 162 Lesser blac
4 September 2017
Wildlife sightings 04/09/17
a.m. low tide Wader Lake Knot (juvenile) Redshank 27 Black tailed godwit - 4 Icelandic, 5 Limosa Curlew Eurasian teal 5 Lapwing 200 stock dove 2 Pied wagtail 2 Jay Saline lagoon Eurasian teal 7 Hawthorn Wood Blue tit 6 Greenfinch Robin 3 Coal tit 2 Other
4 September 2017
Wildlife sightings for 4th September 2017
2 Whinchat - marsh 2 Yellow Wagtail - scrape 1 Hobby - marsh 22 Chiffchaff - site count (mostly on the south side) 3 Willlow Warbler - sheltered lagoon 10 House Martin - feeding over main lake a.m. 1 Common Sandpiper - main lake 1 Green Sandpiper - sc
4 September 2017
September migrants
It was very busy with Chiffchaffs today, 120+ seen and heard around the site with Willow Warblers and Goldcrests also in evidence, this is likely to be a large undercount, who knows how many are out there? A few new waders were seen today, September is th
3 September 2017
Todays Sightings
Whooper swan Mute swan Greylag Canada goose Mallard Shoveler Shelduck Wigeon Teal Gadwall Moorhen Great white egret Little egret Grey heron Redshank Black-tailed godwit Ruff Snipe Little ringed plover Green sandpiper - 2 Greenshank Lapwing Goldfinch Tree
3 September 2017
Snipe a plenty
Great weather for Snipe. It's probably just us but when it's raining Snipe do look a little perky, celebrating the soft conditions perhaps. Difficult to accurately count the numbers but with 43 counted on the Mere alone there must be twice that number sec
3 September 2017
Wildlife sightings for 3rd September 2017
2 Common Sandpiper - wader scrape 2 Whinchat - grazing marsh 1 Kestrel - wader scrape, grazing marsh 1 Peregrine - perched on the hospital 2 Snipe - grazing marsh 8 Chiffchaff - site count 2 Willlow Warbler - sheltered lagoon, South route August b
3 September 2017
Hobby
Rushy Kingfisher 1 Coot 36 Teal 14 Green Sandpiper 1 Snipe 6 Black Tailed Godwit 1 Little Grebe 1 Holden Tower and Hides Teal 56 Gadwall 14 Shoveler 3 Green Sandpiper 1 Sparrowhawk 1 Barn Owl 1 flushed from Holden Tower first thing. Wheatear 1 on Dumbles
2 September 2017
Todays Sightings
Whooper swan Mute swan Greylag Canada goose Mallard Shoveler Shelduck Wigeon Teal Moorhen Crane (x4) Little egret Redshank Black-tailed godwit Ruff Snipe Avocet Green sandpiper Greenshank Lapwing Black-headed gull Goldfinch Tree sparrow House sparrow Yell
2 September 2017
Wildlife sightings for 2nd September 2017
1 Black-Tailed Godwit - main lake 2 Common Sandpiper - grazing marsh 1 Kingfisher - South route 2 Wheatear - grazing marsh 1 Whinchat - grazing marsh 4 Sedge Warbler - wildside, reedbeds 3 Blackcap - sheltered lagoon 1 Red Kite - flew over NW 1 Hobby - gr
2 September 2017
Recent Sightings.
British Steel Hide Recent wader counts have been slightly down, as there haven't been any high tides over 6 metres to push the waders up onto the Saline lagoons, but nonetheless Black-tailed Godwit numbers have peaked at 614, Greenshank numbers reached 81
1 September 2017