Monday update, October 3rd
12 Whooper Swans are just off the reserve to the north and just visible with binoculars/telescope, to the north at Newmains Pond from The Farmhouse Tower. No real change in the Barnacle Goose situation, with 4 birds alongside the above-mentioned Whoopers and over 40 on the merse from Saltcot Tower. This is a really quite unprecedented late arrival scenario. Folly Pond still looks good with a selection of duck species and the Black-tailed Godwits
Today's high tide 14:26, 9.2m
Around the reserve today:
Whooper Pond
Mute Swan 4 + 7 cygnets
Mallard 170
Canada Goose 200
Wigeon 20
Tufted Duck 11
Moorhen 2
Little grebe 1
Folly Pond
Teal 100
Wigeon 100
Mallard 10
Snipe 1
Shoveler 25
Black-tailed Godwit 52
Redshank 3
Lapwing 4
Moorhen 5
Teal Pond
Mallard 5
Teal 2
Gadwall 3
Coot 1
Moorhen 5
Avenue Tower
Whooper Swan 0
Wigeon 40
Mallard 2
Teal 5
Shoveler 3
Mute Swan 1
Golden Plover 150
Peregrine 1
Longhorn Cattle 3
Saltcot Merse Observatory
Great Egret 1
Barnacle Geese 40+
Mute Swan 12
Pink footed Geese 450+
Greylag Geese 20
Canada Goose 300
Wigeon 156
Peregrine 1
Hebridean Sheep 12
Avenues & Feeders
(notable species)
Swallow
House Martin
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
steven.cooper@wwt.org.uk
