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Wildlife sightings for 13th January 2013
1 redhead Smew - sheltered lagoon, showing well 61 Wigeon - marsh 1 Kestrel - female, perched on gate, then dropped onto small mammal to feed c60 Lapwing - in a large flock on the main lake c10 Siskin - wildside Recent bird highlights: Red-breasted
13 January 2013
Wildlife sightings for 12th January 2013
1 Red-head Smew - sheltered lagoon 1 Bittern - main lake 1 Peregrine - hospital 1 Kestrel 5 Common Snipe 2 Cetti's Warbler approx 20 Siskin 1 Kingfisher - car park channel Recent bird highlights: Red-breasted Merganser, Smew, Bittern, Peregrine, Woodcock,
13 January 2013
Record number of curlew on site
From just a single, solitary curlew last night; a record 1,220 are roosting on Wader Lake tonight! The island and all the fingers are literally full of birds and the noise is incredible. We think the cold snap has brought them in and they look fairly sett
12 January 2013
New year, new house.
Happy 2013 folks. I thought I would start of the posts of 2013 with news of an exciting new development within the grounds at Slimbridge. The flock of 22 Andean flamingos have started off the new year in style by being moved to a new exhibit and are reuni
12 January 2013
Today's sightings & Photos
Bittern and Common Snipes Copyright James Lees WWT The Zeiss Hide BITTERN 1 Showing very well again Water Rail 1 Teal 1600 Wigeon 900 Shoveler 30 The Holden Tower Peregrine 2 Buzzard 4 Egyptian Goose 1 Barnacle Goose 140 Curlew 30 Golden Plover 800 Th
12 January 2013
Special programme and special offer for schools to celebrate world wetlands day!
As part of our world wetlands day celebrations this year (as well as two of our staff performing magic tricks before having wet sponges thrown at them! - see http://www.wwt.org.uk/visit/llanelli/whats-on/2013/02/02/world-wetlands-day/) we are offering
12 January 2013
Today's sightings
Merganser - 1 female Goldeneye - 2 female White lapwing - 1 (in amongst the flock using the spit of land at main observatory) Sparrowhawk - 1 All hides are now open except the Reedbed hide, but wellies are essential to get to hides apart from the main obs
11 January 2013
Green-winged Teal Again
Green-winged Teal again throughout the day on Vinson's Marsh from the Ron Barker Hide with 1000+ Teal in the surrounding area. Great to hear the males whistling in their displays to females. A few Tufted Duck and Gadwall present in the deeper water from t
11 January 2013
Can TV presenter Mike Dilger feed over 500 birds at WWT Llanelli in less than an hour?
Mike Dilger Can TV presenter and naturalist Mike Dilger feed all of our collection birds, over 500 in total, the right food in less than an hour...? You are welcome to join him on his journey and find out! He will beg
11 January 2013
Todays Sightings
Wader Lake/Low Tide/Time - am Shelduck - 30 Teal - 92 Tufted Duck - 5 Mallard - 36 Gadwall - 2 Grey Heron - 10 Window on the Wear Goldeneye - 3 Grey Heron - 2 Redshank - 1 Other Birds River Wear: Black Headed Gull - 119 Great Black Backed Gull - 3 Cormor
11 January 2013
Today's sightings
The Zeiss Hide BITTERN 1 Showing very well for long periods today hunting in the sunshine in the open. Water Rail 1 Little Egret 1 Teal 1600 The Tack Piece Spotted Redshank 1 Redshank 47 Dunlin 700 Golden Plover 600 Lapwing 1800 White-fronted Goose 160 Be
11 January 2013
Wildlife sightings for 11th January 2013
1 Smew (female) - sheltered lagoon a.m. 2 Bittern - main lake N shore, resr lagoon W end 58 Wigeon - marsh and scrape 12 Greylag Geese - main lake, marsh (11 birds arrived late yesterday and roosted) 3 Waxwing - perched in resr lagoon tree block, then
11 January 2013
Local photographer wins first place in wetland wildlife photography competition
The winning photo - "Egg thief" by Wayne Davies Local photographer Wayne Davies has won first place in the national Canon/WWT photography competition in the Wetland Wildlife category for his photograph entitled “Egg thief” - congratulations Wayne
10 January 2013
Severn Barrage would cause 'massive change to the estuary'
A proposal to build a Barrage across the Severn Estuary would be "such a massive change to the estuary that we do need more information”, WWT Chief Executive Martin Spray has told MPs. The Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust (WWT), RSPB and Angling Trust told
10 January 2013
Greenland White-fronted Goose
A big influx of Pink-footed Geese on the reserve mid morning with around 6000 birds. In among them a single adult Greenland White-fronted Goose. Sometimes not easy to separate from European, which have also been present, but in general adult Greenlands ar
10 January 2013