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Wildlife sightings for 5th December 2012
93 Shoveler - main lake, scrape 53 Gadwall - sheltered lagoon 46 Wigeon - sheltered lagoon, marsh 2 Peregrine - perched on hospital Additional sighting from yesterday: 1 Pintail - marsh 1 Jack Snipe - marsh Recent bird highlights: Great Whit
5 December 2012
Migratory wildfowl and flamingo travellers?
I thought I would run a topical flamingo post for this time of the year as Slimbridge, and other WWT centres, are filling up with migrant wildfowl flocking to the UK to escape the worst of the Northern Hemisphere's winter weather. Much is known about t
4 December 2012
Todays sightings
Curlew - 25 on Bank farm feeding around the closest pool to the visitor centre Barn owl - 1 hunting around the visitor centre
4 December 2012
Local Waxwings
If you are visiting the reserve in the next few days it's worth checking for Waxwings as there is 30+ birds feeding on Rowan along Red Cat Lane which is the road leading to Martin Mere from Burscough from the A59. The Mere has been looking very busy over
4 December 2012
Fantastic PR from our Whooper swan numbers
We have received some great PR from the story of us having a record number of Whooper swans. We are in the Daily Mail and Daily Telegraph today - plus we have had a call from BBC Breakfast so fingers crossed we will be on there tomorrow morning. It does m
4 December 2012
Latest Sightings
Although some of the ice is starting to thaw here, all of the ponds except the whooper pond remains frozen solid. Whooper Pond Whooper Swan 130 Mute Swan 50 Wigeon 114 Tufted Duck 70 Teal 40 Gadwall 2 Canada Goose 70 Greylga Goose 2 Tawny Owl still in the
4 December 2012
Wildlife sightings for 4th December 2012
8 Redwing - 4 in wildside 4 flew SW 5 Siskin - south route 3 Redpoll - south route 1 Chiffchaff - calling in wildside 1 Stonechat - grazing marsh Recent bird highlights: Great White Egret, Bittern, Little Egret, Peregrine, Oystercatcher, Caspian Gull, R
4 December 2012
Today's sightings
South Lake Long-billed Dowitcher 1 Black-tailed Godwit 283 Lapwing 230 Goldeneye female on deep part of lake Pochard 30 Teal 90 Tack Piece Stephen Kirk, Robbie Garnett and Martin Smith Hides Dunlin 1073 Lapwing 670 Golden Plover 300 Ruff 6 Redshank 32 Bla
4 December 2012
WeBS count
Highlights from the Wetland Birds Survey which was conducted on Monday 3 December, most duck and wader numbers were down due to the extremely high water levels on the Ouse washes. Wigeon - 6232 Mallard - 1061 Tyfted duck - 549 Pochard - 228 Pintail - 22 S
3 December 2012
Cold weather prompts late swanfall at Slimbridge
The sudden change in the weather has prompted an overdue influx of endangered Bewick’s swans to the WWT Slimbridge Wetland Centre in Gloucestershire. The swans migrate from arctic Russia each year to spend the winter at Slimbridge, the former home of co
3 December 2012
Today's sightings
Holden Tower E White-fronted Goose 59 on the Dumbles Raven 1 Barnacle Goose 140 Egyptian Goose 1 Tack Piece View from Holden Tower, Stephen Kirk, Robbie Garnett or Martin Smith Hides Long-billed Dowitcher 1 Black-tailed Godwit 120 Golden Plover 300 Lapwin
3 December 2012
Record numbers of Whooper swans at WWT Martin Mere
A dusk count yesterday morning of Whooper Swan produced a record number of 2480 birds at WWT Martin Mere Wetland Centre. Centre Manager, Andy Wooldridge, said: “We usually get peak numbers of Whooper swans in mid to late December so I still think number
3 December 2012
Wildlife sightings for 3rd December 2012
1 Bittern - main lake N shore a.m. 1 Peregrine - charing cross hospital ledge 11 Redpoll - sheltered lagoon, south route + 2 flew E over the river 28 Redwing - entrance lake + flew SW,W 1 Linnet - flew NW Recent bird highlights: Great White Egret, Bitte
3 December 2012
Latest Sightings
With the overnight snow fall, most of the water bodies are not just ice covered but also snow covered. Due to this all the wildfowl, bar the birds on the Whooper Pond, have moved into the free flowing rivers and estuaries around the reserve such as the Ri
3 December 2012
TODAYS SIGHTINGS
WADER LAKE/AM/MID TIDE/ 100% FROZEN Moorhen - 1 HAWTHORN WOOD/AM Nuthatch - 1 Bullfinch - 3 Coal Tit - 7 Blue Tit - 7 Blue Tit - 6 Great Tit - 3 Robin - 3 OTHER BIRDS/AM Goosander (Window on the Wear) - 1 Grey Heron (Window on the Wear) - 2
3 December 2012