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Today's sightings
The South Lake Pink-footed Goose 1 first winter Greylag Goose 100 Redshank 3 Great-crested Grebe 1 The Rushy Bewick's Swan 160 The Tack Piece Little Stint 1 Dunlin 400 Lapwing 1400 Golden Plover 600 Ruff 7 Black-tailed Godwit 220 Curlew 70 Wigeon 600 Teal
8 January 2015
Today's highlights & new Bird Race!
Bird Race & Festival of Birds Join us for our weekend Festival of Birds and enter our new Bird Race The Rushy Bewick's Swan 170 The Tack Piece Little Stint 1 Common Crane 7 The Holden Tower White-fronted Goose 140 Peregrine 1 Marsh Harrier 1 The Zeis
7 January 2015
Today's sightings
A rapid hide round between 0815 and 0945 produced.... Asian pen Female Ferruginous Duck among the Baer's Pochard at 0930 Willow Hide Water Rail under the feeders Holden Tower Marsh Harrier-2 hunting over the Dumbles and around the reserve Peregrine 2 Gold
6 January 2015
Today's sightings-interesting Wigeon
Ferruginous Duck- female seen from c0940-1030am in the Asian Pen. It flew off shortly after a female Tufted Duck spooked and left the pen, it headed east toward South Lake. A brief search of South Lake subsequently never re-located it but it may have go
5 January 2015
Today's sightings
Ferruginous Duck-the female was again in the Asian pen today. Holden Tower Marsh Harrier-2 seen on and off all day hunting over the whole area Peregrine-2 Buzzard 2 Kestrel 1 Golden Plover 250 Dunlin 800 (also feeding on the estuary and Tack Piece) Lap
4 January 2015
New flooding = lots of birds
Rushy Bewicks Swan 190 Whooper Swan 1 (flew out 08.30) now viewable from Sloane Tower 1 km to N.E. Pochard 60 Teal 30 Redshank 1 Robbie Garnett Hide Wigeon 1350 Teal 860 Lapwing 1600 Ruff 8 Redshank 21 Dunlin 170 Crane 5 Marsh Harrier 2 great views both
3 January 2015
Ferruginous Duck and Bittern
Rushy Bewicks Swan 176 overnight 196 on site Redshank Dunlin 12 Robbie Garnett Hide Crane great display here this morning all 9 bird present. Wigeon 450 Teal 340 Lapwing 600 Golden Plover 70 Ruff 4 Redshank 6 Dunlin 170 Water Rail 1 showing well at Willo
2 January 2015
New Year Day sightings
The Rushy Pen Bewick's Swans- not many in this morning with the flock seeming nervous, the firework displays last night may well have spooked them. A flock of over a 100 were in fields NE of the centre and c50 on the Tack Piece. Whooper Swan was not seen
1 January 2015
Today's sightings-New Year's Eve
After three nights of cold and clear conditions we are now thawing out, the cold snap has encouraged some species to make their way to Slimbridge but has also thinned out the vast wader flocks. This is typical behaviour during such a weather event. The t
31 December 2014
Today's sightings-Ferruginous Duck still here
Ferruginous Duck- the female was finally tracked down among a quartet of the closely related captive Baer's Pochard in the Asian Pen. A similar species both being in the 'white-eye' clan. Both species are threatened in the wild, Baer's Pochard appear t
30 December 2014
Today's sightings
South Lake Female Ferruginous Duck (I did not have long to study it but it appears pure, we have had a couple of very convincing hybrids in the recent past as well as one previous genuine bird in 2002) It was present from 3pm to dusk, was initially sleepi
29 December 2014
Swanfall!
After a very slow start to the season we have at last had a good arrival of Bewick’s Swans. We may have missed out on the snowfall up north but we did get a Swanfall overnight, with 50 new birds arriving. It has been a very mild winter so far right acr
28 December 2014
Swan fall & more sun!
The Rushy Bewick's Swan 143 Whooper Swan 1 Pintail 200 Pochard 220 The Willow Hide Water Rail 1 Reed Bunting 1 The Zeiss Hide Avocet 1 Black-tailed Godwit 300 Dunlin 200 Lapwing 500 Teal 700 The Holden Tower Marsh Harrier 1 Peregrine 2 Buzzard 5 Golden Pl
28 December 2014
Sunshine & and thousands of birds
The Willow Hide Water Rail 2 Showing very well Sparrowhawk 1 Reed Bunting 2 The Holden Tower Peregrine 2 Buzzard 2 Golden Plover 700 Lapwing 1400 Dunlin 300 Wigeon 700 Barnacle Goose 200 The Tack Piece White-fronted Goose 117 Pink-footed Goose 1 Dunlin
27 December 2014
Boxing day birding
The kingfisher Hide BITTERN 1 Ruff 13 Lapwing 800 Dunlin 200 Kestrel 1 Buzzard 2 The Zeiss Hide Black-tailed Godwit 312 Avocet 1 Dunlin 300 Lapwing 500 Teal 700 Wigeon 300 Pintail 60 The Rushy Whooper Swan 1 Bewick's Swan 87 The Tack Piece Crane 8 Dunlin
26 December 2014