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Wildlife sightings for 10th November 2011
5 Snipe - marsh and scrape a.m. 1 Peregrine - hunting over main lake and sheltered lagoon off the river 4 Siskin - wildside 2 Meadow Pipit - marsh 2 Redpoll - f [...]
10 November 2011
Today's sightings
Rushy Bewick's Swan 11 Pochard, Tufted Duck, Teal, Mallard, Gadwall Holden Tower Avocet 2 Grey Plover 5 Great blacked Gull 16 Zeiss Hide Chiffchaff 1 flew toward S Finger [...]
10 November 2011
How to recruit new members
We are always trying to come up with new ways of recruiting members to WWT as we believe it is such fantastic value for money and our membership co-ordinator has come up with great idea - she is holding a special 'become a member' day out. Basically we ar
9 November 2011
Wildlife sightings
Wader Lake Wigeon 8 Teal 92 Mallard 26 Canada goose 2 Shelduck 2 Lapwing 9 Redshank 14 Grey heron 8 River Wear Mallard 72 Cormorant 6 Curlew [...]
9 November 2011
Wigeon arrival
Three wigeon have flown in this morning and are feeding on the new wet grassland area. Fantastic result! [...]
9 November 2011
Wildlife sightings for 9th November 2011
1 Pintail - female, main lake 244 Black-headed Gull - main lake 4 Cetti's Warbler - singing main lake, wildside, sheltered lagoon, reedbeds Recent bird highlights: Bittern, [...]
9 November 2011
Today's sightings
The Holden Tower Brent Goose 13 Short-eared Owl 2 Peregrine 2 Kestrel 1 Buzzard 2 Grey Plover 15 Golden Plover 700 Lapwing 240 Dunlin 180 Ruff 2 Rock Pipit 1 Shelduck 99 [...]
9 November 2011
And now there are five!
Two new swans swooped in over the weekend to join Dario, Bridges and Humbugs for a winter at Slimbridge. The birds have grey flecks on their heads which indicate that they are yearlings. Born in June 2010, they have already made three migrations, flying o
8 November 2011
Cold weather brings an influx of waders and duck
We undertook a Brent geese count yesterday and there are just over 5000 geese still in the area but a lot have now moved further south to spend the rest of the winter. However, the recent cold weather has brought in an influx of smaller waders and duck in
8 November 2011
A lovely autumnal return
Following a few days' holiday, I've returned to work to find the site feeling very autumnal, with lots of gold and red foliage in the trees. Highlights for today's blog include a flock of 50 siskin down near the amphibian ponds and six lesser redpoll.
8 November 2011
Marbled duck seen on reserve
A Marbled Duck was found 4.15pm with Common Teal from the Ron Barker Hide yesterday. It appeared to be fully winged and the assumption is that it will be the same bird that turned up on the Ribble on the 4th of September. There has been a couple of furthe
8 November 2011
Dawn swan count
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8 November 2011
Seal spotted
Wardens have just reported a seal in the River Wear, near our Window on the Wear viewing platform. [...]
8 November 2011
Murky
Pretty murky conditions all day but plenty of activity nonetheless. Raptors in action included 3 Marsh Harrier, one with an unidentified bird (hopefully not Marbled Duck..) as prey item, was 'robb [...]
8 November 2011
Wildlife sightings for 8th November 2011
1 Bittern - south side main lake 1 Shelduck - male, main lake, 14:40 1 Pintail - female, main lake 13 Snipe - marsh, scrape, main lake 2 Jack Snipe - one left side, one right side of m [...]
8 November 2011