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Todays Sightings
Wader Lake Time/AM Tide/Mid Avocet - 6 + 3 chicks Oystercatcher - 2 + 2 chicks Common tern - 80 + 16 chicks Tufted duck - 10 S [...]
1 July 2012
Waders
A good day for waders with 11 species being recorded on site, the best being a Greenshank, other species were 2 Green Sandpiper, 2 Common Sandpiper, at least 188 Black tailed Godwit, 4 Ruff, Oystercat [...]
1 July 2012
Wildlife sightings for 1st July 2012
7 Teal - main lake 2 Pochard ducklings - first reedbed channel 2 Gadwall ducklings - wildside 3 Common Tern chicks - main lake rafts 1 Green Woodpecker juvenile - entrance area with ad [...]
1 July 2012
Today's sightings
Holden Tower Estuary Yellow Legged Gull adult among the Lesser Black-backed and Herring Gulls. Curlew 60 Pied Wagtail juvenile Dumbles Skylark 20+ Redstart 1 along fence to Middle [...]
1 July 2012
Squacco heron
Squacco heron seen from the Reedbed hide this afternoon. [...]
30 June 2012
Out on the reserve today
A few sightings from the reserve this morning along with a few highlights from the moth trap set out last night. Moth trap highlights: Eyed hawk moth Burnished brass Cinnabar Angle s [...]
30 June 2012
Todays Sightings
Wader Lake Avocet - 5 + 3 chicks Oystercatcher - 2 + 2 chicks Common Tern - 63 + 21 chicks Green Sandpiper - 1 Shelduck - 9 + 12 juvinile Long Tailed Tit - 12 Whitethroat - [...]
30 June 2012
Pectoral Sandpiper?
A report of a Pectoral Sandpiper today would be the bird of the day but no further details on the sighting. Other waders today included up to 80 Black tailed Godwit, 2 Green Sandpiper and a single Cur [...]
30 June 2012
June 30th
Things pretty much as yesterday, though the weather is improving by the minute. Several Great Spotted Woodpeckers in The Avenue this morning and a Common Sandpiper on the Folly Pond are the only notab [...]
30 June 2012
Wildlife sightings for 30th June 2012
4 Teal - main lake 3 Gadwall broods - resr lagoon, scrape 1 Peregrine - hunting Pigeon and Starling over entrance lake and main lake 9 Common Tern + 3 juvs - main lake 50 Black-headed [...]
30 June 2012
Todays Sightings
Holden Tower Two Common Terns were over the estuary this morning and there was a scattering of Curlew, Oystercatcher and Shelduck. The tide will be high in the afternoon so watch out for Gulls [...]
30 June 2012
Today's sightings
Today’s highlights include spoonbill, 7 Mediterranean gull, common tern, 53 black tailed godwit, 17 little egret, 11 redshank, cetti’s warbler and a peregrine. [...]
29 June 2012
June 29th
Yet another wet one overnight, strong blustery south-westerlies this morning. A few hardy warblers (Blackcap, Garden and Whitethroat) continue to sing despite the conditions. 200 Lapwings and twice as [...]
29 June 2012
Wildlife sightings for 29th June 2012
3 Teal - main lake, wader scrape 18 Lapwing - main lake, grazing marsh 3 Common Tern chicks - main lake 40+ Swift - site count 7 House Martin - reservoir lagoon Re [...]
29 June 2012
Bad weather blows rare gull-billed tern off course to WWT Llanelli!
Gull-billed tern (Image credit: Mark Hipkin) Birders are flocking to WWT Llanelli this week to see an extremely rare gull-billed tern who has taken up residence. It is thought the recent squally weather has blown the
28 June 2012