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Great White Egret Cranes x 3 Marsh Harrier White Wagtail Snipe Wigeon Teal Shoveler Shelduck Tufted Duck Great Skua- Fly-over
21 September 2016
Overnight arrivals
** Update **: Spotted Crake showing well on and off from Van de Bovenkamp Hide. Volunteers on site to help. An obvious increase in Wigeon overnight on the Top New Piece with at least 520 birds present this morning from the Zeiss Hide. A Wood Sandpipe
21 September 2016
Latest Sightings - 21st September - Pink-feet and a Fox
240 Pink-footed Geese are feeding in the Corner Field this morning, including two leucistic (pale) individuals. Great views from upstairs in the Peter Scott Observatory. 36 Barnacle Geese are still out on the merse, a Fox running around them. Today's hig
21 September 2016
Wildlife sightings for 21st September 2016
1 Pintail - Wader Scrape 3 Water Rail - Wildside 2 Peregrine - Perched on the hospital 1 Grey Wagtail - Otter enclosure 1 Yellow Wagtail - Flew SE 5+ Meadow Pipit - Flew SE/S 7 Swallow - Flew SE 2 Song Thrush - Flew high SE 5+ Blackcap - Wildside, Shelter
21 September 2016
Further arrivals
Pink-footed Geese numbers continue to build with 6170 birds counted this afternoon. Some blocking weather fronts over Iceland are likely to slow the progress of birds leaving this week, so it will be interesting to see how the numbers change.
20 September 2016
Wild birds make the most of warmer weather
Moorhens are building nests and raising families of chicks at WWT’s wetland centres, four months after their peak breeding season in the spring.
20 September 2016
A new Spotted Redshank...
Zeiss Hide/Top New Piece We have dropped the levels of the flood to coincide with the high tides, over 1000 Teal were roosting and wader interest was good as usual. An adult Spotted Redshank has arrived, it was fishing in the shallows. The two juvenile Li
20 September 2016
Latest Sightings - 20th September - Barnies and Egret still
33 Barnacle Geese are on the merse this morning, visible at a distance from the Farmhouse Tower and Saltcot Merse Observatory. The Great Egret is also out on the merse. 8 Pintail are currently on the Folly Pond, the males still in eclipse plumage, they bl
20 September 2016
Wildlife sightings for 20th September 2016
1 Dunlin - Main Lake 3 Water Rail - Wildside 1 Common Gull - Main Lake 150+ Shoveler - Main Lake, Reservoir Lagoon, Wader Scrape 30+ Wigeon - Main Lake 30+ Lapwing - Main Lake 5 Chiffchaff - Sheltered Lagoon, Wildside September bird highlights: Wh
20 September 2016
Sightings
Another excellent couple of days, yesterday a Crake specie was reported from United Utilities Hide, no sign today but it could well reappear, here's hoping! Also yesterday a Curlew Sandpiper was seen but no reports today. The highlights today included the
19 September 2016
Sand martins, a green sandpiper and a hungry hobby.
A convolvulus hawk moth on the boat jetty. Photo by Jon Boon. Wilidfe Sightings for week of Sept 12-18 by Paul Stevens. OVER ONE THOUSAND sand martins and house martins were hawking insects low over the reserve on
19 September 2016
Recent Sightings
High tide cr. Rob Werran British Steel Hide and Grounds Curlew Sandpiper 12 Ruff 2 Spotted Redshank 3 Turnstone 1 Dunlin 90 Greenshank 59 Redshank 39 Black-tailed Godwit c560 Lapwing 34 Wigeon 241 Pintail 12 Teal 130 Greylag 137 Little Egret 13 Gr
19 September 2016
More high tide waders
We're currently having a short run of high tides around the 9 to 10 metre mark, pushing birds off the river and on to the reserve, particularly the Top New Piece as seen from the Zeiss Hide. Today's highlights included 2 Little Stint amongst 135 Dunlin,
19 September 2016
Today's Sightings
Cranes-2 ad +1 juv flew west, joined by 2 more adults who then flew to Lyle hide Ruff-20 Dunlin-1 Ringed plover-2 Lapwing-60 Grey plover-1 Green sandpiper Snipe-8 Greylag goose-1 Marsh harrier-4 females Buzzard-3 Kingfisher on pool by café Tree sparrow j
19 September 2016
Swan woman takes off
Early this morning, conservationist and adventurer Sacha Dench took to the air above the Russian tundra in her paramotor at the start of her 4,500 mile journey following the migration of endangered Bewick’s swans.
19 September 2016