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First flamingo chicks hatch!
Caribbean flamingo chick - Simon Ellison-Burns Two Caribbean flamingo chicks hatched in the early hours of Wednesday 25th July. This is fifteen days later than the first hatching in 2011, due to the confusing w
26 July 2012
Out on the reserve today
Looks like with another bright, warm day we'll have a good amount of dragonflies and damselflies out today as well as more house martins fledging from infront of the main observatory and under the [...]
26 July 2012
Out on the reserve today
Plenty of common and ruddy darters patrolling the ditches in these sunny conditions, along with black-tailed skimmer, southern and brown hawkers. The warm conditions have encouraged the first sma [...]
26 July 2012
26th of July Sightings
Wader Lake Time/AM Tide/High Avocet - 1 + 2 Juvenile Lapwing - 125 Redshank - 98 Curlew - 1 Common Tern - 14 + 25 yo [...]
26 July 2012
New Ruff
Though the morning started promisingly with low cloud and drizzle nothing really of note was reported despite a few observers being out on the reserve today. Wader passage was noted with an increase i [...]
26 July 2012
Today's sightings
British Steel hide/estuary spoonbill 168 black tailed godwit 1080 curlew 460 oystercatcher 110 redshank 17 dunlin 16 greenshank 16 lapwing 28 little egret Medit [...]
26 July 2012
Todays Sightings
Folly Pond Curlew 20 Oystercatcher 4 Lapwing 1 Teal 4 Whooper Pond Mute Swan 2 + 6 cygnets Tufted Duck 3 Shoveler 1 Teal Pond Little Grebe still with one chick Young M [...]
26 July 2012
Insects galore!
The hot weather has at last brought out the insects in force. Most notable sighting was a White Admiral butterfly which probably wandered from the woodland areas to the north. Other butterflies includ [...]
26 July 2012
Wildlife sightings for 26th July 2012
1 new Little Grebe brood (5 chicks) - wildside 1 new Pochard brood (the 4th brood) - reedbed 2 Gadwall broods (well grown young) - resr lagoon 4 Common Tern juvs + 7 adults - main lak [...]
26 July 2012
Today's sightings
Moulting adult Curlew Sandpiper (the smaller one) with Black-tailed Godwit MJMcGill Zeiss Hide/Top New Piece LONG-BILLED DOWITCHER 1 breeding plumage CURLEW SANDPIPER 1 partial breeding [...]
26 July 2012
Recent sightings
Sightings from the 22nd July have included Main Lake - 3 shelducks, 1 little grebes, 30 tufted ducks, 3 wigeon ducks, 9 greylags, 190 mallards, 1 kingfisher. Estuary - 140 curlews, 150 black headed gulls, 2 common gulls, 1 common tern, 1 knot, 70 oysterca
25 July 2012
Moths!
These moths were released from our moth trap this morning: Poplar Hawkmoth - 5 Coxcomb Prominent - 1 Brimstone Moth - 4 Swallow-tailed Moth -2 July Highf [...]
25 July 2012
25th of July Sightings
Weather: Overcast with white cloud but warm and humid. Wader Lake Am - Tide Level: High Avocet - 2 + 2 young Redshank - 39 Lapwing - 94 Common Tern - 24 + 25 young [...]
25 July 2012
Sandwich Tern new for the year.
Low cloud and misty rain alway promise something interest and almost the first bird seen while scanning the Mere this morning was Sandwich Tern. They never hang around for longer than a day and in the [...]
25 July 2012
Recent Sightings
Sightings from the 22nd July have included Main Lake - 3 shelducks, 1 little grebes, 30 tufted ducks, 3 wigeon ducks, 9 greylags, 190 mallards, 1 kingfisher. Estuary - 140 curlews, 150 black h [...]
25 July 2012