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Wildlight sightings - 25/01/17
a.m. Tide Level: Low Wader Lake Shelduck 26 Greylag 1 Saline Lagoon Common snipe 1 Hawthorn Wood Great spotted woodpecker 1 Blue tit 1 Chaffinch 6 Robin 2 Other birds Goldcrest - 2 - Window on the Wear 2 Curlew - 6 - River Wear Black-headed gull - 15 - Ri
25 January 2017
Today's sightings
A great variety of notable species this morning including Goshawk, White-fronted Geese, Little Stint and our star Bitterns! South Lake Hides The scrape and duck marsh are completely frozen, but around 600 Lapwing and 8 Dunlin were braving the ice. The d
25 January 2017
Reserve Update Wednesday 25th January
The sunny morning is really lighting up the large flocks of Golden Plover, Lapwing, Wigeon and Teal down on the Flood Ground today. It is also making it far easier to pick out the American Wigeon in the mob than has been the case the past two days. Sm
25 January 2017
Wildlife sightings for 25th January 2017
6 Bittern - main lake, resr lagoon 1 Green Sandpiper - flew N over sheltered lagoon 4 Pintail - main lake 20 Fieldfare - sheltered lagoon 8 Redwing - sheltered lagoon Additional sighting from yesterday: 6 Waxwing - behind South route feeder tree
25 January 2017
Foggy dawn, sunny day.
Once the fog cleared from the site we were left with a day of sunshine. Zeiss Hide Snipe flocks were feeding in the cut rush, image below was taken this morning. Yesterday Water Rail and Cetti's Warbler also showing well here. Van de Bovenkamp Hide At
24 January 2017
Recent Sightings
Treecreeper cr. Russ Myners Millennium Wetlands 1 x Hen Harrier (male) on 21/1 5 x Bullfinch 4 x Song Thrush 1 x Mistle Thrush 3 x Water Rail 2 x Cetti`s warbler 1 x Snipe 1 x Buzzard 46 x Tufted duck 12 x Teal
24 January 2017
Bird News
Mammals have been drawing more attention than over the last couple of days, with 3 Roe Deer, Weasel, and Stoat on top of last week's Otter sighting. Still lots of birds around though, with Marsh Harrier, Sparrowhawk, Common Buzzard, Little Egret, Water Ra
24 January 2017
Wildlife sightings for 24th January 2017
4 Bittern - main lake south shore, reservoir lagoon 6 Waxwing - behind South route feeder tree block, then landed in Cypress tree tops at 15:50 before flying S 1 Jack Snipe - grazing marsh 1 Kingfisher - South route 1 Water Pipit - grazing marsh 50+ Fiel
24 January 2017
Quick update, Tuesday Jan 24th
Fewer swans this morning, about 140 Whoopers at the early feed, where the pond had relatively few duck to begin with - otter activity again? Visibility is much better today - the fog has gone, replaced with a sharp SW wind. Green-winged Teal is of course
24 January 2017
Reserve update, Monday Jan 23rd
Despite the foggy conditions today we've had quite an exciting morning. Three otters (female and two slightly smaller cubs) emptied the Whooper Pond of birds first thing, but once everything had settled down and the otters moved off we had a good count of
23 January 2017
Wildlife sightings - 23/01/17
a.m. Tide Level: Low Wader Lake Shoveler 8 Eurasian shelduck 10 Greylag goose 1 Jay 4 Eurasian teal 7 Herring gull 2 Redshank 2 Black-headed gull 82 Northern lapwing 50 Saline Lagoon Grey heron 1 Curlew 9 Hawthorn Wood Robin 4 Chaffinch 5 Great tit 2 Grea
23 January 2017
Wildlife sightings for 23rd January 2017
1 Bittern - main lake 1 Jack Snipe - main lake from Headley Hide - showing down to within 3m of hide windows 1 Bearded Tit - calling from reeds NE of Headley Hide 133 Shoveler - main lake 1 Kingfisher - south route 5 Meadow Pipit - marsh 20 Redwing -
23 January 2017
New insights for January
Happy New Year flamingo followers. Unfortunately I cannot really say much about flamingo behaviour at WWT for this first month of the year as the flocks are currently shut away in their houses, safe and warm, until environmental conditions improve and t
22 January 2017
Cold snap continues
Another cold night with frost meant many areas remained frozen all day, a thaw after midday did open up feeding opportunities for some species. Water Rails were very much out on the open today. Birds were seen from Kingfisher Hide, Zeiss Hide (2) and W
22 January 2017
Festival of Swans - Sunday sightings
A glorious start to the day with our swans awake an amazing experience watching thousands of swans on the washes wake up preen and some flew out. Many have remained infront of the hides due to the ice so come down and see them. Highlights Glaucous gull
22 January 2017