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Today's Sightings
Avocet and Chicks Lapwing Mallard Shoveler Shelduck Gadwall Redshank Little Egret Spoonbill Corn Bunting Yellow Wagtail Reed Bunting Swallow Common Tern
16 May 2017
New feathered friends at Washington Wetland Centre
In order to ensure the success of our conservation breeding programmes, one of our aims is to keep populations of birds as genetically diverse as possible. Every year we identify birds that we may need to pair, or colleagues at other centres within the WW
16 May 2017
Wildlife sightings - 16/05/17
a.m. Tide Level: High Wader Lake Avocet 29 + 9 chicks Grey heron 22 Ringed plover 2 Shoveler 2 Redshank 4 Common tern 91 Eurasian teal 2 Lesser black-backed gull 2 Black-headed gull 23 Gadwall 4 Saline Lagoon Tufted duck 7 Avocet 2 Shoveler 1 Hawthorn Woo
16 May 2017
Wildlife sightings for 16th May 2017
2 Common Tern - main lake 3 Shelduck - reservoir lagoon, wader scrape 2 Little Ringed Plover - wader scrape 3 Redshank - main lake 1 Snipe - grazing marsh 1 Peregrine - perched on hospital ledge 1 Whitethroat - singing beside entrance bridge May bird high
16 May 2017
Sightings
A wet and windy day which didn't produce much, but a Yellow Wagtail over the Mere mid afternoon was a new bird for the year. A 2nd cal year Mediterranean Gull was around mid afternoon also Common Gull and Great black-backed Gull on the Mere. Lots of Avoce
15 May 2017
Sightings update
South Lake A few Swifts and c30 House Martin feeding over the alder trees, the Black-headed Gull colony (mostly on deep lake islands) has 60-80 occupied nests. The wader scrape held a male Ruff in breeding plumage and 100+ Black-tailed Godwit as well as
15 May 2017
Recent Sightings
Mute Swan with cygnets cr. Rob Wisdom Millennium Wetlands Little Grebe 3 Mute Swan 3 + 8 cygnet Greylag 4 Shelduck 7 Gadwall 15 Mallard 17 Shoveler 7 Pochard 4 Tufted Duck 23 Sparrowhawk 1 Buzzard 1 Moorhen 4 Coot 6
15 May 2017
Wildlife sightings for 15th May 2017
1 Ringed Plover - main lake 4 Shelduck - reservoir lagoon 2 Little Ringed Plover - main lake 2 Common Tern - main lake 1 Whitethroat - entrance area 3 Redshank - grazing marsh, main lake 50+ Swift - reservoir lagoon 15+ Swallow - reservoir lagoon 10+ H
15 May 2017
Today's Sightings
Turtle Dove by Bob Ellis Turtle dove - 1 under the bird feeding station Bittern - heard booming early in the morning by Reedbed hide Cuckoo Reed bunting Tree sparrow Chaffinch Swallow Mallard Shoveler Shelduck Gadwall
15 May 2017
Wildlife sightings - 15/05/17
a.m. Tide Level: High Wader Lake Avocet 29 + 6 chicks Oystercatcher 3 Grey heron 22 Redshank 2 Ringed plover 2 Common tern 102+ Black-tailed godwit 1 Shoveler 2 Tufted duck 5 Gadwall 2 Stock dove 1 Saline Lagoon Grey heron 1 Avocet 3 Tufted duck 9 Shovel
15 May 2017
Recent sightings - 15th May
The following sightings were recorded today by Toni Castello, warden, at low tide, and under a rainy, windy day, which is keeping the most of the birds quiet, and looking for sheltered spots. Estuary Black-tailed godwit 17, Little egret 1, Black-head
15 May 2017
Today's sightings
Rushy Pen Up to five different Mediterranean Gulls, the nesting Avocets including a brood of 4 chicks and a few Lapwing. No reports of the Lapwing chicks but we hope they are hiding out there somewhere. Tack Piece A pair of Lapwing with a brood of three c
14 May 2017
Sightings Sunday 14th May
Sightings today: Mute swan Whooper swan Gadwall Mallard Red-crested pochard Plover Shelduck Shoveler Teal Wigeon Grey heron Little egret Coot Moorhen Avocet Lapwing Little ringed plover Oystercatcher Redshank Ringed plover Whimbrel Cetti's warbler Reed wa
14 May 2017
Sunday May 14th
Dry and sunny today. Two Avocets currently on The Folly Pond along with a single Common Sandpiper. The Oystercatchers on the Flood Ground have three chicks, all doing well...! Mute Swans are still sitting at two nests and three Barnacle Geese in The Loch
14 May 2017
Wildlife sightings - 14/05/17
a.m. Tide Level: High Wader Lake Avocet 21 + 6 chicks Shelduck 7 Grey heron 26 Coot 2 Shoveler 3 Black-tailed godwit 1 Tufted duck 6 Oystercatcher 2 Common tern 65 Little ringed plover 2 Lapwing 15 + 9 chicks Saline Lagoon Shelduck 15 Tufted duck 16 Avoce
14 May 2017