News - Welney
Reserve access
Wellies by Nick Cottrell Wellies are now needed to access Lyle and Nelson-Lyle hides. We have had to close Friends and Reedbed hides today due to increasing water levels on the footpaths leading to them. Water level
18 January 2015
Help us document a year on the Great Ouse Wetland
Call to the public to film, present, comment on and get involved with Great Ouse Wetland's amazing animal life Volunteers filming The Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust via its wetland centre in Welney, Norfolk is launchin
17 January 2015
A Year in the Life of the Great Ouse Wetlands
Journey into the lives of the animals and the people of the Great Ouse Wetlands WWT Welney is launching a brand new project to capture and document a year in the life of this spectacular region. We want to record the highs and lows, from the spectacular t
11 December 2014
Floodlit swan feeds
Wimble the whooper swan The floodlit swans feeds are particularly good at the moment with water levels creeping up. The birds are now favouring the islands and shallow water nearest the main hide. Details of the f
26 November 2014
WWT Welney opens new wetland
Lady Fen visitor interpretation The completion of a new wetland habitat area next to the WWT Welney Wetland Centre was celebrated on 13 November. The creation of this additional wetland habitat, called Lady Fen, was m
25 November 2014
Reserve access
Wellies by Nick Cottrell Wellies are now needed to access the Reedbed hide. The summer walk and dragonfly ponds have been closed due to water levels increasing. There are still plenty of birds to see, with the incre
22 November 2014
Festival of swans
Water rail at ringing demonstration Our Festival of swans weekend is here and we were a bit worried about the fog this morning but it did encourage lots of our whooper swans to stay a bit longer on the lagoon than nor
15 November 2014
Rarest swan suffers alarming crash in numbers, new figures reveal
The UK’s smallest and rarest swan has suffered an alarming crash in numbers, according to new figures released today by the Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust (WWT). In some winters, the Ouse Washes receives up to 25-33% of the whole of the Northwest Europea
28 October 2014
Swan numbers building
Whooper swan numbers are building on the Ouse Washes with over 800 swans this morning counted at our Swan's awake event. These events are a fantastic chance to see the reserve in the early morning as the swans are waking up on the washes, the next dates
25 October 2014
Don't miss nature's most 'incredible journeys' this Autumn
Get closer to the action with wild bird feeds and special events Bewick's swans by James Lees Every year as the seasons change and the leaves turn red and yellow, animals are saving up their strength for one of the gr
20 October 2014
Bumblebee hive
Honey bees This summer we have had a lot of activity on the reserve with bees! We have had a honey bee swarm decide that the main hide was their favourite area on the reserve and take up residence. Thankfully they
8 August 2014
Bovine pedicures
The first customer If we humans need our nails trimmed we would normally head off to the spa but for our cattle that's not really an option. Yesterday some of our cows needed their feet trimming, so a very specialised
25 July 2014
Help us break butterfly count record says David Attenborough
Brimstone, Matt Berry, Butterfly Conservation Sir David Attenborough launched the 2014 Big Butterfly count at WWT’s London Wetland Centre last week and your local WWT Welney Wetland Centre is inviting you to come al
21 July 2014
Swallow chicks fledging
Swallow fledglings huddled together The next wave of young birds have just flown the nest. Our brood of swallows from the North Wing Hide finally ventured outside this weekend and have begun to line up along the han
30 June 2014
What makes a good nest site?
Duckling being rescued People are always interested in the quirky nesting sites some birds choose to lay their eggs and a couple of weeks back we had one of the weirdest. A robin had chosen to nest in a motorcycle h
14 May 2014