Latest Sightings - 17th October - another big tide!

The recent high tides have flooded the merses and provided great feeding areas for Pintail, Wigeon and Teal.

The Great Egret is on the eastern merse from Avenue Tower this morning.

A Yellow-browed Warbler was heard halfway down the Avenue first thing, but hasn't been relocated yet...

Today's high tide 13:42, 10m


Around the reserve today:

Barnacle Geese: 7,500 inc 4 leucistics

Whooper Swans: 27 - at the road end in stubble field

Whooper Pond
Mute Swan 5 + 7 cygnets
Mallard 130
Wigeon 40
Tufted Duck 25
Moorhen 3
Little grebe 1
Gadwall 1♂

Folly Pond
Green-winged Teal 1♂
Mute Swan 8
Teal 50
Wigeon 40
Shoveler 9
Snipe 3
Black-tailed Godwit 40

Teal Pond
Mute Swan 1
Wigeon 11

Avenue Tower
Great Egret 1
Wigeon 100+
Teal 200+
Pintail 500+
Mute Swan 17
Snipe 1
Canada Goose 1
Greylag Goose 1
Longhorn Cattle 3

Saltcot Merse Observatory
Barnacle Geese 6000+
Mute Swan 12
Pink footed Geese 100+
Greylag Geese 20
Canada Goose 300
Wigeon 200
Peregrine 1
Merlin 1
Hebridean Sheep 12

Avenues & Feeders
(notable species)
Yellow-browed Warbler
Redwing
Reed Bunting
Sparrowhawk
Coal Tit
Long-tailed Tit
Goldcrest
Chiffchaff
Goldfinch
Greenfinch
Linnet
Redpoll
House Sparrow
Tree Sparrow
Treecreeper
Song Thrush
Great-spotted Woodpecker

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Osprey Webcam

The winter webcam is now showing the Whooper Pond. The first few Whooper Swans have already shown up and later in the winter we enjoy the superb spectacle of up to 300 of them along with a variety of wild ducks and geese at feed times - 11:00 and 14:00 daily

joe.bilous@wwt.org.uk

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