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Great teaching in the great outdoors is being offered to a school near you!
Fresh from being awarded top marks for its outdoor education, WWT Slimbridge Wetland Centre is offering disadvantaged schools in Gloucestershire and Herefordshire free school trips to connect children with nature. Staff at the Centre were delighted when t
28 September 2012
Fungal Foray - Part One
Guest blog by WWT London Wetland Centre Chief Ecologist Richard Bullock Blackening Waxcap - Richard Bullock If you go down to the woods today, you could be in for a big surprise. As our summer (.....‘What summer?’
28 September 2012
Sheep set sail for pastures new
[yframe url='http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eu01i4jO1g8&feature=g-upl'] It’s not something you would normally expect to see just 10 minutes from Hammersmith; seven Hebridean sheep on a boat heading to an island in the middle of a lake... Hebr
28 September 2012
Great Autumn Birding
The Holden Tower RED-NECKED PHALAROPE 1 (juvenile on floods) Curlew Sandpiper 6 Little Stint 3 Dunlin 250 Ringed Plover 85 Sanderling 4 Knot 24 Grey Plover 36 Golden Plover 60 Curlew 260 Merlin 1 Kestrel 1 Peregrine 1 The Zeiss Hide PECTORAL SANDPIPER 1
28 September 2012
Out on the reserve today
Crane - 5 (moving between reserve and arable fields near the visitor centre) Green sandpiper - 4 (far side of reserve from main observatory) Teal - 3000, numbers of other wildfowl now building as well Peregrine falcon - 1
28 September 2012
Kingfisher gems
Although Kingfishers have been showing well around most of the reserve, for those who can be prepared to wait, there is the chance of seeing an individual which has been using the perches in front of the sand martin hide. Morning and late afternoon seem t
27 September 2012
Photographers get closer to nature to win prizes
Keen photographers have each won a prize in five categories of the prestigious WWT Photography Competition. Their photographs of a common lizard, a soldier beetle, a little grebe eating a fish, a spider and a pair of hungry swallows have respectively won
27 September 2012
Recent Sightings
Sightings from the 22nd September have included: 26,100 Brent Geese have returned to the Lough to date, with 5,000 spotted on the Estuary. Main Lake – 67 Greylag Geese, 2 Kingfishers, 5 Little Egrets, 1 Greenshank, 14 Gadwalls, 12 Black Tailed Godwits
27 September 2012
Wildlife sightings for 27th September 2012
13 Wigeon - reservoir lagoon, wader scrape 136 Teal - wader scrape, main lake 7 Snipe - wader scrape, grazing marsh 3 Peregrine - on hospital across river 3 Buzzard - flew SW 18 Meadow Pipit - flew SW with a few dropping onto the marsh 1 Yellow Wagtail
27 September 2012
Out on the reserve today
Crane - 3 (Friends hide) Avocet - 1, on the main lagoon along with increasing numbers of wildfowl. Lapwing are starting to flock up on the washes as well and today these are using the pools of water at the back of the reserve. Yesterdays sightings: Marsh
27 September 2012
Todays Sightings
WADER LAKE/AM/LOW TIDE Common Snipe - 6 Redshank - 24 Kingfisher - 1 Teal - 25 Shoveler - 6 Mallard - 18 Coot - 2 Moorhen - 4 SALINE LAGOON/AM/LOW TIDE Jay - 4 Mallard - 5 OTHER BIRDS/AM Wader Lake path: Redwing -3 Blackbird - 11 Wren - 3 Ch
27 September 2012
Another Red-necked Phalarope
Red-necked Phalarope-Image MJMcGill Zeiss Hide Red-necked Phalarope- 1st winter dropped in from high calling continously at 0900. Black-tailed Godwit 308 Ruff 3 Red Knot 4 Redshank 30 Snipe 12 It is likely that the dowitcher is hidden amongst the godwits
27 September 2012
Bring your wellies.
Amazing coming into work this morning to see just how much the water levels had risen over night. The two pictures below represent the difference in 24 hours. &nb
26 September 2012
VIDEO...baby magpie geese (hatched Friday 21 September)
Meet our first baby magpie geese! Hatched on Friday 21 September, the fluffy duo will soon be on show up at the duckery for visitors to admire :-) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTXUwuMXxZU
26 September 2012
Latest Sightings
Whooper Pond Tufted Duck 20 Shoveler 1 Whooper Swan 6 (flew over heading east) Folly Pond Teal 400 Shoveler 20 Wigeon 30 Mute Swan 2 + 6 juveniles Teal Pond Little Grebe 1 Gadwall 2 Avenue Tower Shoveler 10 Wigeon 20 Teal 30 Kestrel 1 Peregrine 1 Corner F
26 September 2012