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Todays Sightings
Wader Lake 100% frozen High Tide/AM Black Headed Gull - 190 River Wear Wigeon - 2 Tufted Duck - 46 Grey Heron - 2 Mallard - 32 Hawthorn Wood Nuthatch - 2 Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 Bullfinch - 19 Chaffinch - 10 Siskin - 14 Blue Tit - 20 Coal Tit - 10 Gr
18 January 2013
Wildlife sightings for 18th January 2013
1 Bittern - main lake between Dulverton and WWF hide 1 Caspian Gull - 2nd winter main lake 2 Mandarin - reservoir lagoon 7 Siskin - South route 2 Peregrine - over reserve, 1 hunting over sheltered lagoon Additional sightings from yesterday: 1 Pintail -
18 January 2013
Peregrine sighting
Lady Fen Peregrine falcon - 1 Buzzard - 1
18 January 2013
Cuticle arrives after 10 year absence!
It’s been a funny old winter! After months of rain which saw the swans disperse to feed and roost across newly flooded fields, dropping temperatures have now made those areas deserted ice rinks! As adaptable as ever, the Slimbridge swans have been searc
17 January 2013
TODAY'S SIGHTINGS
WADER LAKE/100% FROZEN/AM/MID TIDE Curlew (flew off east) - 360 RIVER/AM/MID TIDE Teal - 74 Mallard - 37 Coot - 4 Grey Heron - 5 OTHER BIRDS/AM Tufted Duck (Reservoir) - 60 Coot (Reservoir) - 10 Lesser Redpoll (Wader Lake footpath) - 3 Robin
17 January 2013
Today's sightings
Lots of ice about the reserve, the ice-free areas are South Lake and Rushy, both attracting large numbers of duck. This update at 1000 am so birds likely to appear during the milder part of the day or to drink. See Twitter for instant updates of bird move
17 January 2013
Wildlife sightings for 17th January 2013
2 Bittern - resr lagoon and main lake 1 Smew - sheltered lagoon 77 Wigeon - main lake 109 Shoveler - main lake mostly 1 Ruff - main lake 1 Shelduck - main lake 12 Siskin - sheltered lagoon 2 Skylark - flew SW Recent bird highlights: Red-breasted Merg
17 January 2013
Curlew roost
Our curlew numbers have dropped since the site record of 1,220 on Saturday 12 January but we still had 300 on Wader Lake this morning, which left at about 9am to go off in search of food.
17 January 2013
Cold weather flushes bitterns & water rails
Notes and photos from a walk on Jan 15 2013 The cold weather has emboldened reclusive wildfowl like bitterns and water rails, exposed by their need to feed to stay warm as temperatures drop below zero at night. For the past few days there has been bitte
17 January 2013
Common Crane apparently..
Although as far as I know nobody reported the sighting to anybody on the reserve, but via twitter and after that assorted rare bird news services, a Common Crane was reported on the reserve around 2pm. We did have a confirmed sighting on the 7th January s
16 January 2013
Today's highlights
British Steel hide/estuary 79 black tailed godwit, 7 greenshank, 110 redshank, 200 curlew, 25 snipe, 111 lapwing, 9 little egret, peregrine, sparrowhawk, kestrel, buzzard, 43 brent goose, 51 greylag goose, 57 shelduck, 45 wigeon, 27 shoveler, 2 water rail
16 January 2013
Crossbills
Four crossbills have been present in South Wood today.
16 January 2013
Today's sightings
This Water Rail has been showing very well from the Willow Hide, Photo taken by JSLees The Holden Tower Tundra Bean Goose 1 white-fronted Goose 185 Barnacle Goose 140 Egyptian Goose 1 The Tack Piece Ruff 5 Dunlin 150 Lapwing 400 The Rushy Bewick's Swan 2
16 January 2013
Wildlife sightings for 16th January 2013
4 Bittern - resr lagoon and main lake (2 extra birds flew in during the day) 1 Smew - sheltered lagoon 82 Wigeon - scrape 5 Mandarin - reservoir lagoon (4 males, 1 female) 2 Pintail - pair, main lake 1 Peregrine - perched on hospital 1 Water Pipit - main
16 January 2013
Latest Sightings
Yesterday just before dark the TODD'S CANADA GOOSE (B. c. interior) was located on the entrance road to the reserve. This bird was first seen in the county back in October 2011 where it arrive in the corner field with Barnacle Geese. It later relocated
16 January 2013