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Egrets bring a plus 1
Early opening this morning at 7:30am to see the Cattle Egret at roost, but the birds didn't arrive until just before 8am so they must be roosting elsewhere on site and then arriving at the South Lake for a bit of a stretch and freshen up before heading ou
28 October 2016
Wildlife sightings for 28th October 2016
2 Water Pipit - grazing marsh 5 Skylark - flew W+SW 3 Meadow Pipit - grazing marsh 2 Snipe - grazing marsh 4 Stonechat - grazing marsh 28 Redwing - sheltered lagoon, and some flew SW 2 Fieldfare - flew SW 3 Siskin - South route 1 Redpoll - wildside Octob
28 October 2016
Recent Sightings - British Steel Hide
Hen Harrier cr. Andreas Trepte/WWT British Steel Hide Hen Harrier 1 Barnacle Goose 1 Black Tailed Godwit 18 Redshank 14 Lapwing 36 Little Egret 3 Dunlin 1 Pintail 1 Wigeon 72 Canada Goose 8 Teal 1 Pochard 2 Tuf
28 October 2016
Latest Sightings - 28th October - back to sunshine
The sun is back today and the wind has dropped, making a lovely morning on the reserve. Over 100 Whooper Swans were at the 2pm feed yesterday, numbers are slowly increasing as they filter down from Iceland. Highlights at the moment are still the Green-win
28 October 2016
70 Years of WWT Slimbridge Wetland Centre
We are celebrating 70 years of WWT Slimbridge on Thursday 10th November! WWT Slimbridge Wetland Centre was founded on 10th November 1946 by Sir Peter Scott, son of Captain Scott of the Antarctic, who left instructions to Peter’s mother to “make the b
27 October 2016
Today's Highlights
Marsh harrier Snipe Wigeon Teal Mallard Whooper swans Pochard Tree sparrow Kingfisher Peregrine Great egret-Friends hide Sparrowhawk Egyptian goose Black-tailed godwit Dunlin Green woodpecker Lapwing Golden plover
27 October 2016
A nice wader day
The Cattle Egrets roosted again last night on the South Lake and then flew out to the fields opposite the Primary School in Slimbridge village by 8:30am. We've also seen a nice selection of waders on the pools and scrapes today, including a Little Stint
27 October 2016
Wildlife sightings - 27/10/16
a.m. Tide level: Low Wader Lake Water rail 1 (in front of Diageo Hide) Lapwing 42 Curlew 18 Redshank 9 Teal 36 Black-tailed godwit 5 Saline Lagoon Curlew 22 Grey heron 2 Teal 16 Hawthorn Wood Bullfinch 10 Chaffinch 6 Goldfinch 11 Willow tit 1 Coal tit 7 G
27 October 2016
Latest Sightings - 27th October - change in the weather
Despite a change in the weather, all the usual suspects this morning. Plenty of Whooper Swans, Barnacle Geese and Pink-footed Geese going over the site. The morning and evening flights of Pink-feet have been spectacular the past few days, with around 10,0
27 October 2016
Wildlife sightings for 27th October 2016
1 Mealy Redpoll - flew NW 35 Redwing - flew SW 8 Fieldfare - flew SW 2 Stonechat - grazing marsh 1 Pintail - wader scrape 4 Snipe - grazing marsh, wader scrape 6 Meadow Pipit - grazing marsh, flew S 1 Kingfisher - sheltered lagoon October bi
27 October 2016
Geese and Raptors
Very active across the reserve today with 10-15000 Pink-footed Geese back on the reserve by early afternoon and more roosting. In with the Pink-footed Geese singles of Greenland and European White-fronted Geese and two Barnacle Geese. Three Marsh Harrier
26 October 2016
Reserve Update 26th October - water rail, whoopers and wigeon!
The water rail has once again re-appeared in the Peter Scott Trail underneath the bird feeder area. Seen yesterday and again first thing this morning. Another Whooper Swan family has turned up on the Whooper Pond with five cygnets just to confuse matt
26 October 2016
A 3 Egret Day!
The clock hadn't even struck 8:30am and staff and volunteers had clocked up all three species of egret on site! The 5 Cattle Egret from yesterday were found on South Lake first thing with a Little Egret, which left at 8:04am and flew towards the canal.
26 October 2016
Recent Sightings
Long-tailed Tit cr. Russ Myners British Steel Hide (thank you Martin Lewis) Merlin 1 Barnacle Goose 1 Meadow Pipit 3 Snipe 3 Kingfisher 1 Sparrowhawk. f 1 Peregrine. juv 1 Greenshank 2 Little Egret 4 Knot on lagoon 15, c150 on estuary Mil
26 October 2016
Wildlife sightings for 26th October 2016
1 Pintail - wader scrape 5 Meadow Pipit - grazing marsh 24 Redwing - flew SW 1 Skylark - flew SW 1 Peregrine - hunting over the grazing marsh/wader scrape 2 Stonechat - grazing marsh 2 Grey Wagtail - main lake October bird highlights: Wheatear,
26 October 2016