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Wildlife Sightings - 27/09/18
Wader Lake Time/AM Tide/Mid Avocet - 1 (immature) Black-tailed Godwit - 2 Curlew - 1 Lapwing - 60 Herring Gull - 26 Lesser Black-backed Gull - 2 (1st winter) Black-headed Gull - 106 Teal - 22 Jackdaw - 60 Starling - 5 Saline Lagoon
27 September 2018
Latest Sightings - Thursday 27th September - Geese and Dragonflies galore
Plenty of geese on the reserve this morning, great views from the Peter Scott Observatory. At the Avenue Tower there are good numbers of Common Darter and Common Hawker Dragonflies out in the sunshine! A male Goshawk was causing trouble around the Flood G
27 September 2018
Wildlife sightings for 27th September 2018
1 Yellow Wagtail - flew over heading South 5 Snipe - grazing marsh, main lake 16 Wigeon - main lake, wader scrape 27 Mute Swan - main lake, reservoir lagoon, wader scrape 3 Water Rail - calling from the main reedbed 2 Peregrine - perched on the hospita
27 September 2018
Wildlife sightings - 26/09/18
Wader Lake (AM, low tide): Teal 41 Avocet (immature) 1 Black-headed gull 83 Curlew 1 Lesser black-backed gull (juvenile) 3 Lapwing 20 Jackdaw 1 Saline lagoon: Wigeon 1 Teal 6 Black-headed gull 4 Curlew 1 Hawthorn Wood feeding station: Great-
26 September 2018
Todays sightings
Pallid Harrier seen at lyle hide at 10.56am Crane 30 Little Grebe Marsh Harrier Greylag Goose Teal Lapwing Grey Heron Swallow Buzzard Kestrel Little Egret Snipe Black tailed Godwit Cormorant Tree Sparrow House Sparrow Goldfinch Wigeon Whooper Swan Mute Sw
26 September 2018
Wildlife sightings for 26th September 2018
1 Little Egret - main lake 6 Water Rail - calling from the main reedbed 5 Snipe - grazing marsh, main lake 7 Meadow Pipit - 1 grazing marsh, 6 flying over heading W 3 Chiffchaff - South route, sheltered lagoon 9 Wigeon - main lake, wader scrape 1 Red Cres
26 September 2018
Wednesday's sightings
A small team from WWT Conservation and BU Global Environmental Solutions (BUG) from Bournemouth University are out on the reserve today survey our eel population and helping us understand more about them and inform what we can do to improve the reserve.
26 September 2018
c.7000 Pink-footed Geese
Pink-footed Geese on the Mere A lovely autumn day, light winds and bright sunshine early on. A roosting count of Pink-footed Geese produced just under 7000 birds. A single Barnacle Goose was picked up with Pinks from
25 September 2018
Recent sightings 22nd-25th September
Goshawk from the Kingfisher Kitchen. Photo: Nigel Williams British Steel Hide The highest number of Greenshank at the site has recently been recorded at 79, there have also been 579 Knot, 965 Black-tailed Godwit, 504
25 September 2018
Today's Highlights
Pallid harrier - see from Lyle Hide at 2:00 pm Mute swan Whooper swan (x58) Greylag Shoveler Mallard Gadwall Wigeon Garganey Teal Cormorant Moorhen Crane (x31) - Lady fen/reserve Curlew Black-tailed godwit Snipe Jack snipe - Main observatory Golden plo
25 September 2018
Wildlife sightings - 25/09/18
Wader Lake (AM, low tide): Avocet (juvenile) 1 Teal 17 Lapwing 230 Common snipe 1 Black-headed gull 165 Lesser black-backed gull (juveniles) 2 Herring gull 1 Hawthorn Wood feeding station: Great-spotted woodpecker 2 Coal tit 2 Blue tit 4 Robin 1 Ch
25 September 2018
Wildlife sightings for 25th September 2018
1 Common Sandpiper - wader scrape 5 Snipe - wader scrape, grazing marsh, main lake 2 Meadow Pipit - grazing marsh 1 Kingfisher - middle reedbed channel 2 Willow Warbler - South route 5 Chiffchaff - South route, sheltered lagoon, wildside 2 Swallow - reser
25 September 2018
Latest Sightings - Tuesday 25th September - no sign of the Bittern so far
There are plenty of geese around the reserve this morning. Pink-footed Geese flying everywhere, some still out on the mud. Barnacle Geese can be seen from the Saltcot Merse Observatory around the trig point. No sign of the Bittern as yet this morning, and
25 September 2018
Water supply update
**Important information - Monday 24 Spetember - Our water supply has come back on as of 4.45pm, so we intend to open as normal and resume normal service in the morning - we will post an update tomorrow as early as possible if this is not the case.
24 September 2018
Go-Plo's
Top New Piece from Zeiss Hide Two Golden Plover (Go-Plo's) with the Lapwing flock, 4 Black-tailed Godwit, up to 19 Ruff, Greenshank, 9 Snipe, 18 Wigeon, 24 Pintail, 700+ Teal, 2 Grey Heron and a Reed Warbler. Yellow Wagtail heard. South Lake Two Avocet, c
24 September 2018