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Wood sandpiper Main observatory Wood sandpiper - 1 Greenshank - 1
29 June 2015
Today's Highlights
Quail- singing by Nelson-Lyle hide Greenshank
28 June 2015
Wood Sandpiper
An adult Wood Sandpiper from Ron Barker was the best new sighting of the day, showing well near the hide, also 2 Ruff from here and 4+ Little ringed Plover. An imm female Marsh Harrier is present and touring the reserve, also good numbers of Black-tailed
28 June 2015
Today's sightings
South Lake Pectoral Sandpiper still present Digiscoped images-M.J.McGill. Black-tailed Godwit 30+ Redshank 30+ Ruff male Great Crested Grebe pair + chick Teal 2 Gadwall 10 Mandarin 1 Holden Tower/Middle Point Estuary Shelduck 175 + 10 ducklings (2 broo
28 June 2015
Cuckoo activity.
Last week there was a sighting from the wetlands discovery boat safari of a female Cuckoo leaving the reeds with an egg in her beak. This was the brief moment when a cuckoo female lays her egg in the host nest (in this case a Reed warbler) and removes one
28 June 2015
Today's Sightings
Wader Lake/Time - AM/Tide - Mid Avocet - 22 + 8 chicks Little Ringed Plover - 2 Black tailed Godwit - 1 Curlew - 1 Redshank - 4 Lapwing - 17 Common Tern - 79 Black Headed Gull - 62 Grey Heron - 29 Teal - 1 Shoveler - 4 Sedge Warbler - 1 Swallow - 16 Stock
28 June 2015
Wildlife sightings for 28th June 2015
1 Little Egret - marsh 3 Gadwall broods 5 Shoveler 1 Grey Wagtail - flew high NW June bird highlights: Garganey, Little Egret, Hobby, Red Kite, Kestrel, Green Sandpiper, Curlew, Oystercatcher, Little Ringed Plover, Redshank, Mediterranean Gull, Cas
28 June 2015
Latest Sightings
Click to enlarge A pleasant summers day and the return of the first 'autumn' Ruff, a male, just starting to moult out of it's breeding plumage. It was a little distant on Sunley's Marsh feeding with Black-tailed Godwi
27 June 2015
Today's Highlights
Quail- singing by Friends hide Greenshank Marsh harrier
27 June 2015
TODAYS SIGHTINGS
Wader Lake/Tide - Mid/Time - AM Avocet - 14 + 9 chicks Redshank - 2 + 4 fledged young Black tailed Godwit - 1 Curlew - 1 Little Ringed Plover - 1 Lapwing - 7 Black headed Gull - 52 + 1 chick Common Tern - 77 + 5 chicks Grey Heron - 15 + 20 juvenile
27 June 2015
Wildlife sightings for 27th June 2015
3 Tufted Duck broods - wildside, wader scrape 1 Gadwall brood - wader scrape 1 Pochard brood - reservoir lagoon 1 Red Kite - circled high above site before flying off SW 1 Hobby - flew over heading W 150 Swift - over site and river June bird highlights: G
27 June 2015
Latest Sightings
A Kingfisher was seen yesterday from the Back Pond Hide. High Tide 09:11 7.4m Whooper Pond Tufted Duck 2 Mallard 58 - moulting into eclipse plumage + 5 ducklings Folly Pond Mallard 12 Gadwall 2 Teal 5 Lapwing 48 Black-headed Gull 25 including 4 juve
27 June 2015
PECTORAL SANDPIPER!
The South Lake PECTORAL SANDPIPER 1 adult this morning! Black-tailed Godwit 45 Redshank 37 Kingfisher 1 The Rushy Coal Tit 1 juvenile in the lane Green Sandpiper 1 Avocet 27 The Zeiss Hide Avocet 47 Redshank 4 Teal 50 Gadwall 45 The South Finger Common Cr
27 June 2015
Common Tern chicks still alive!
Yes, 10 days on from our first Common Terns hatching young, we can report that the chicks are still alive! It's a difficult struggle for any of the young of anything breeding on the reserve, as everything finds itself on a lower rung of the food chain lad
26 June 2015
Wildlife celebs back nature law campaign
Miranda K shoots our Nature Directives video - watch it here TV presenters Kate Humble and Miranda Krestovnikoff are backing the Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust’s (WWT) call to protect the laws that protect the UK’s
26 June 2015