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Welcome to the world Little Squeak
Little Squeak gets a health check Meet the latest furry addition to the WWT Washington Wetland Centre family - an Asian short-clawed otter cub! Little Squeak – as the female cub has been affectionately nicknamed bec
5 June 2015
40th Anniversary Photograph Competition Winners Announced
WWT Martin Mere Wetland Centre has revealed the winners of the 40th Anniversary Photograph competition, with each winner being awarded state of the art camera equipment courtesy of London Camera Exchange. The photography competition was launched at WWT Ma
5 June 2015
Latest Sightings
A little taste of warmer weather and still some waders moving through. Yesterday 9 Sanderling briefly touched down on the reserve beating the previous highest count of 7 birds from May 1986! A female Gadwall had 8 ducklings in tow in front of the Harrier
5 June 2015
Today's Sightings
Wader Lake Time/AM Tide/Low Avocet - 12 & 2 chicks Redshank - 4 & 4 chicks Oystercatcher - 4 & 4 chicks Lapwing - 8 & 6 chicks Little Ringed Plover - 1 Black-tailed Godwit - 3 Mute Swan - 2 Wigeon - 2 Shoveler - 5 Gadwall
5 June 2015
WWT Llanelli shortlisted for prestigious tourism award
View of one of the lakes at Llanelli Wetland Centre WWT Llanelli Wetland Centre has been shortlisted for the Best Tourist Attraction Award in Carmarthenshire in the Swansea Bay Awards 2015, beating off competition fro
5 June 2015
Baby boom in Flamingo Lagoon!
There are currently several grey fluffy bundles wandering around the nesting areas in Flamingo Lagoon, and many more either hatching or about to hatch under protective parents. The nesting colony of greater flamingos is quite obliging in that some of them
5 June 2015
Wildlife sightings for 5th June 2015
5 Common Tern - main lake, reservoir lagoon 2 Little Ringed Plover - wader scrape, grazing marsh 2 Redshank - grazing marsh 6 Blackcap - sheltered lagoon, wildside 2 Chiffchaff - wildside, sheltered lagoon 1 Whitethroat - entrance lake 1 Hobby - flew over
5 June 2015
Sandwich Terns!
The Zeiss Hide SANDWICH TERN 2 sat on one of the small islands with a few gulls. Gadwall 14 Black-tailed Godwit 2 Lapwing 27 The Holden Tower Little-ringed Plover 1 Avocet 17 Lapwing pair with young Crane 2 The Tack Piece Crane 1 The Rushy Avocet 19 Oyste
5 June 2015
Latest Sightings
High Tide 14:55 9.0m Whooper Pond Mute Swan 2 - with 5 cygnets (often on the Back Pond) Mallard 17 Folly Pond Mallard 9 - 6 ducklings Gadwall 2 Shelduck 4 Oystercatcher 2 Lapwing 3 Moorhen 2 - with 2 chicks Teal Pond Swallows nesting in hide Little
5 June 2015
Todays highlights
An early start for Warden Louise surveying the breeding birds at WWT Welney. A fantastic start with 2 singing quail one outside the dragonfly ponds and one to the right of Friends hide. Plenty of Corn buntings singing by friends hide, and lots of bree
4 June 2015
Waterbirds listed at risk of extinction
Bewick's swans (c) James Lees WWT Waterbirds including the Bewick’s swan that features in WWT’s logo appeared on a new list of endangered European wildlife this week. The sad news follows hot on the heels of anoth
4 June 2015
Wildlife sightings for 4th June 2015
1 Kingfisher - wildside 2 Shoveler - scrape 2 Little Ringed Plover - scrape, marsh 1 Redshank - marsh 7 Common Tern - reservoir lagoon, main lake May bird highlights: Bittern, Wood Sandpiper, Little Egret, Ring-necked Duck, Garganey, Hobby, Oyst
4 June 2015
Latest Sightings
Whooper Pond Oystercatcher 2 Tree Sparrow 1 (feeding around banking) Mute Swan 1 Folly Pond Shelduck 2 Gadwall 2 Oystercatcher 1 Teal Pond Little Grebe 1 Black-headed Gull Moorhen Mute Swan Avenue Tower Lapwing 4 Mute Swan 2 Oystercatcher (on nest) Black-
4 June 2015
Some freshly-hatched fluff-balls.
We've almost become accustomed to the cuteness overload that is the "nest coop" at the WWT Slimbridge duckery come June... We've had weeks and weeks of "oohs and aahs" but the babes just keep on hatching. I thought I'd feature for you today three of the v
3 June 2015
Today's Highlights
Crane- 3 in front of main observatory Marsh harrier
3 June 2015