Sunday Jan 1st
We'd like to wish all our readers a Happy New Year and apologise for the lateness of the post. Today we held the bird race, and the highest visitor was 53 species for the day. This faile narrowly to beat the warden's total of 60, though he (that's me!) missed some pretty obvious ones and should have totalled about 70. No sign of the Mandarin though The Green-winged Teal and American Wigeon are both present on Folly Pond and the Water Rail has shown well too. Same tomorrow with any luck; weather forecast is reasonable too.
Todays high tide is at 14:04, 9.2m
Around the reserve today:
Barnacle Geese: 5000
Whooper Swans: 130
Whooper Pond
Whooper Swan 109
Mute Swan 47
Mallard 41
Wigeon 70
Tufted Duck 16
Moorhen 9
Gadwall 1
Teal 3
Canada Geese 90
Oystercatcher 1
Little Egret 1
Folly Pond
Green-winged Teal 1♂
American Wigeon 1♂
Teal 100+
Wigeon 500+
Shoveler 25
Black-tailed Godwit 120
Redshank 20
Lapwing 100+
Moorhen 3
Mallard 17
Teal Pond
Teal 4
Mallard 17
Shoveler 1
Wigeon 3
Avenue Tower
Wigeon 800
Hen Harrier 2
Merlin 1
Teal 500+
Shoveler 7
Pintail 3
Lapwing 117
Golden Plover 300
Barnacle Geese 500+
Longhorn Cattle 3
Saltcot Merse Observatory
Peregrine 2
Merlin 1
Sparrowhawk 1
Kestrel 1
Pink footed Geese
Greylag Geese
Canada Goose
Pintail
Wigeon
Red-breasted Merganser 2
Dunlin
Golden Plover
Grey Plover
Knot
Hebridean Sheep 12
Avenues & Feeders
(notable species)
Redwing
Fieldfare
Reed Bunting
Sparrowhawk
Coal Tit
Long-tailed Tit
Goldcrest
Goldfinch
Greenfinch
Linnet
Redpoll
House Sparrow
Tree Sparrow
Treecreeper
Great-spotted Woodpecker
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Webcam
The winter webcam is now showing the Whooper Pond during the day and the badger feeding area from 5pm onwards.
http://www.wwt.org.uk/wetland-centres/caerlaverock/experience/webcam/
The Whooper Swans now regularly number around 150 at feed times - 11:00 and 14:00 daily
steven.cooper@wwt.org.uk
