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Today's Sightings
Wader Lake Time/AM Tide/Mid Shelduck - 15 Canada Goose - 33 Shoveler - 3 Redshank - 35 Eurasian Teal - 40 Herring Gull - 5 Saline Lagoon Shelduck - 2 Hawthorn Wood Treecreeper - 2 Great Spotted Woodpecker - 1 Blackbird - 1 Bu
21 December 2015
Recent Sightings, Millennium Wetlands
White Fungus, Cr. Brian Briggs Herring Gull 20 Grey Heron 1 Cormorant 5 Coot 8 Mallard 54 Gadwall 16 Shoveler 6 Snipe 19 Shellduck 8 Teal 10 Tufted 21 Pochard 5 Moor Hen 2 Mute 6 Black Headed Gull 2 Water Rail
21 December 2015
Around Caerlaverock, Monday 21st December 2015
Little change from yesterday, with a lot of water lying both on the fields and unfortunately within the avenues. Wellingtons remain an essential footwear item for full access to the more outlying hides and towers. The two American ducks are at their usual
21 December 2015
Wildlife sightings for 21st December 2015
1 Shelduck - main lake 160 Teal - marsh, main lake, scrape 71 Shoveler - marsh, main lake, scrape 23 Siskin - wildside, south route 11 Redwing - entrance area 3 Redpoll - wildside 1 Chiffchaff - sheltered lagoon December bird highlights: Bittern, Shel
21 December 2015
Godwits flock to incredible wetlands
Black-tailed godwit flock by Nigel Cooke Visitors can enjoy stunning aerial displays as thousands of black-tailed godwits from Iceland make WWT Welney their winter refuge. These flocks of godwits undertake the same mi
21 December 2015
From Russia with swans: woman’s first ever paramotor ‘migration’
A champion sportswoman and conservationist will fly 4,500 miles from the Russian Arctic to Britain next autumn, using just a parachute wing and strapped to a small propeller engine, in the first ever attempt to follow Bewick’s swans on their annual migr
21 December 2015
Today's sightings
Bewick's Swans At least 83 were present at the Rushy Pen roost early this morning, all the swans went out onto the reserve and estuary during the morning. This afternoon 79 were sleeping on the Dumbles with a further 7 on the Tack Piece making the total 8
20 December 2015
Winter birding
A lovely start to the day in sunshine and a single early shower. The wind picked up early afternoon making it feel cooler before some rain at dusk. Over 70 species can be seen on and around the reserve at present. The Firecrest was seen again twice near
20 December 2015
Today's Highlights
Woodcock - 1 flew from reebeds next to the car park over to the reserve The main lagoon has a large flock of black-tailed godwits on the islands providing fantastic views everytime they take to the sky. There are providing fantastic photographic opportu
20 December 2015
Wildlife photography gallery
Hares boxing by David Featherbe Looking for that last minute gift for someone before Christmas and unsure of what to get? Why not spend a day with us enjoying a swan feed or a hare walk and take home a David Feather
20 December 2015
Today's Sightings
Wader Lake Time - AM/Tide - High Wigeon - 4 Shelduck - 24 Teal - 62 Tufted Duck - 8 Mallard - 40 Grey Heron - 5 Curlew - 10 Redshank - 18 Saline Lagoon Teal - 7 Other Birds Ferruginous Duck - Reservoir - 1 Tufted Duck - Reservoir - 42 Jay - Spring Gill -
20 December 2015
Caerlaverock wild highlights, Sunday Dec 20th
Another wild and wet night just past, with 33mm in the rain gauge, meaning that full access down the main avenue to the tower and Campbell Hide is realistically restricted to wearers of wellington boots. Visitors coming from the east/Carlisle direction sh
20 December 2015
Wildlife sightings for 20th December 2015
1 Bittern - reservoir lagoon, west end, seen from Wildside hide 1 Shelduck - main lake 4 Pintail - main lake 1 Peregrine - flew SE 20 Siskin - wildside 3 Redwing - entrance area 2 Stonechat - wader scrape Additional sightings from yesterday: 2 Ston
20 December 2015
20th December 2015
LAPWING HIDE; Teal, Pheasant, Lapwing, Wood pigeon. SAND MARTIN & RAMSAR HIDES; Canada & Greylag geese, Mallard, Teal, Shelduck, Gadwall, Wigeon, Tufted duck, Grey heron, Cormorant, Lapwing, Black headed gulls. SCRAPE HIDE; Mallard, Shelduck, Cana
20 December 2015
Home improvements = happy flamingos #2
It's nearly the festive season flamingo followers! And I hope that you are all ready for the main event. The mild weather (I really want some snow! Does anyone else?!) means that the birds have not been put to bed as much as normal, nor are having to be s
19 December 2015