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Todays Sightings
Wader Lake Avocet - 8 + 7 chicks Wigeon - 1 Common Tern - 100 + 20 chicks Oystercatcher - 2 Shelduck - 6 + 16 duckling Lapwing - 10 Redshank - 2 Tufted Duck - 15 Bl [...]
26 June 2012
Todays Sightings
Wader Lake Avocet - 8 + 7 chicks Wigeon - 1 Common Tern - 100 + 20 chicks Oystercatcher - 2 Shelduck - 6 + 16 duckling Lapwing - 10 Redshank - 2 Tufted Duck - 15 Bl [...]
26 June 2012
Avocet latest
The soap opera that is Wader Lake continues! The oystercatcher pair that nested on Tern Island approximately three weeks ago still have two well grown chicks on East Island. Three of the four [...]
26 June 2012
Todays Sightings
Whooper Pond Mute Swan 2 + 6 cygnets Teal Pond Little Grebe Gadwall 4 Flood Ground Gadwall Heron Lapwing 18 Starling 100 Folly Pond Mallards with ducklings Shovel [...]
26 June 2012
Wildlife sightings for 26th June 2012
1 Shoveler - main lake 19 Lapwing - main lake 11 Common Tern - main lake 2 Whitethroat - reservoir lagoon, wader scrape bank 1 Chiffchaff - wildside Recent bi [...]
26 June 2012
Today's sightings
Holden Tower COAL TIT 1 very fresh juvenile calling and popped up before flying to Decoy. Scarce here. South Lake Wigeon 3 (2 males) Avocet pair nesting and another single Bla [...]
26 June 2012
Bot-any spare bathtubs? (And no, we're not having a bubble!)
Rub-a-dub-dub, can you spare WWT Washington Wetland Centre a tub!? Bathtubs already in use at the plant nursery Wardens at the Wearside nature reserve are on the sponge for some unusual donations to help their plant n
25 June 2012
Cuckoo
A Cuckoo was heard singing near the Harrier Hide this afternoon. Today's raptors included 3 Marsh Harrier, 6 Common Buzzard, 2 Kestrel and 2 Sparrowhawk. A male Ruff is the first of the return [...]
25 June 2012
Today's sightings
The gull billed tern has reappeared this morning and is best viewed from the british steel hide, although the bird is quite mobile and disappears for periods, only to return again. Other highlights sp [...]
25 June 2012
Todays Sightings
Whooper Pond Mute Swan 2 + 6 cygnets Teal Pond Little Grebe Gadwall 4 Flood Ground Gadwall Heron Lapwing 18 Starling 100 Folly Pond Shoveler 2 Oystercatcher 4 H [...]
25 June 2012
Wildlife sightings for 25th June 2012
2 Shoveler - main lake 5 Teal - scrape 12 Common Tern adults + 2 chicks - main lake 2 Peregrine - hunting over river and the scrape 2 Hobby - hunting over main lake 1 Crossbi [...]
25 June 2012
Today's sightings
Tufted Ducks are hatching in numbers, you can see them from most hides often close to cover. Pic by MJMcGill South Lake Mediterranean Gull 1st summer at 0800, five yesterday, afternoo [...]
25 June 2012
Today's sightings
A gull billed tern appeared briefly on the saltmarsh, before flying off towards the Machynys area at around 11:30am. Other highlights this morning include; spoonbill, little gull, 20 Mediterranean gul [...]
24 June 2012
Todays Sightings
Whooper Pond Mute Swan 2 + 6 cygnets Mallards with duckling Teal Pond Little Grebe Gadwall 4 Flood Ground Gadwall Heron Lapwing 18 Starling 100 Folly Pond Shovele [...]
24 June 2012
Wildlife sightings for 24th June 2012
1 Shoveler - marsh 7 Teal - main lake and scrape 2 Little Grebe chicks - 1 in channel by wildside hide, the other in the pool between the field lab and the summer route 9 Common Tern and 3 [...]
24 June 2012