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Wildlife sightings - 19/07/16
a.m. Tide Level: Low Wader Lake Avocet 20 + 2 chicks Shelduck 5 Lapwing 7 Grey heron 3 Curlew 3 Common sandpiper 1 Black-headed gull 4 Chiffchaff 1 Common tern 300+ Saline Lagoon Common sandpiper 5 Redshank 12 Lapwing 22 Grey heron 3 Hawthorn hide Robin 5
19 July 2016
Wildlife sightings for 19th July 2016
14 Teal - scrape 5 Shoveler - scrape 1 Redshank - flew E over main lake 1 Peregrine - perched on hospital 4 Common Tern - main lake, resr lagoon 1 Kingfisher - reedbed middle channel 35 Swift 1 Swallow 45 Goldfinch - a flock of mostly juveniles moving aro
19 July 2016
Caerlaverock reserve update Tues 19th July
Plenty of damsel and dragonfly action around the meadow pools in the (very) warm sunshine today, just watch out for those clegs!! Still birdsong going on as yesterday, with Whitethroat, Blackcap and Sedge Warbler particularly. Little Grebes currently invi
19 July 2016
Today's sightings and late news of another White Stork
White Stork Late news for yesterday was of a ringed White Stork that arrived on the chimney pot of the Keeper's Cottage (Peter Scott's first home, excepting a barge on the canal in this area). It spent and hour preening and crowd gathering before spending
19 July 2016
Opposition parties challenge new PM and Environment Secretary, following WWT report
Green Party MP Caroline Lucas, WWT CEO Martin Spray and Labour Shadow Environment Secretary Rachael Maskell Liberal Democrat peer, The Baroness Parminter Opposition parties have
19 July 2016
New WWT report: PM and Environment Secretary urged to plan ahead
Children learning how wetlands help to reduce flooding, pollution and drought Families and businesses will be worse off if a Government manifesto commitment to the environment falls due to Brexit, says the Wildfowl &a
19 July 2016
Latest Sightings
Warm weather setting in for the next couple of days. Generally this tends to produce a 'doldrum' in terms of sightings reports although it might be some encouragement for local Hobbies to visit the reserve? The warmth should be good for sightings of butte
18 July 2016
Recent Sightings
White-letter Hairstreak, Cr. Wayne Davies Millennium Wetlands Kingfisher 1 Reed Warbler 5 Chiffchaff 8 Blackcap 4 Lesser Whitethroat 1 Whitethroat 1 Sedge Warbler 1 Cetti's Warbler 2 Goldcrest 3 Treecreeper 3 Reed Bu
18 July 2016
Wildlife sightings 18/07/2016
a.m. Tide Level: Low Wader Lake Grey heron 6 Avocet 24 Lapwing 5 Willow warbler 6 Little ringed plover 5 Black-headed gull 4 Shoveler 1 + 6 ducklings Common tern 300+ Whitethroat 2 Shelduck 9 Saline Lagoon Common sandpiper 4 Grey heron 1 Lapwing 25 Redsha
18 July 2016
Get closer to nature - get more from your summer. Be a Nature Explorer!
For budding explorers, adventure seekers and those looking to get more from the summer holidays this year, become a Nature Explorer at WWT Llanelli Wetland Centre! Visit between 21 July – 4 September and armed with your very own passport of discovery,
18 July 2016
Flight of the Swans superhero Sacha Dench arrives at WWT Llanelli Wetland Centre today
The Wildfowl and Wetland Trust’s (WWT) Sacha Dench, leader of the first ever lone female paramotor expedition to follow Europe’s smallest swan on migration, has arrived at Llanelli Wetland Centre in Carmarthenshire today with her paramotor to chat ab
18 July 2016
Cute names for cheeky otter babies
The four cheeky cubs (from left) Ash, Tod, Pip and Sam © Ian Greneholt Although it seems like just yesterday these cheeky Asian short-clawed otter quadruplets were born, they’re now 4 months old and are positively
18 July 2016
Today's highlights
Quail - 3 Little egret - 40+ on Lady Fen
18 July 2016
Wildlife sightings for 18th July 2016
10 Teal - main lake, scrape 1 Peregrine - perched on hospital 4 Common Tern - main lake 1 Kingfisher - wildside 1 Garden Warbler - wildside 2 Blackcap juvenile - wildside 1 Whitethroat - singing from scrape bank Additional sightings from yesterday
18 July 2016
Reserve update Monday July 18th
Little Grebe chicks from The Teal Pond have relocated to The Flood Ground, with a single older chick now established on The Back Pond. A few passerines still in song periodically, notably Blackcap, Sedge Warbler and Whitethroat Today's high tide is at 12
18 July 2016