Latest sightings

Still largely frozen but helping birds through it

The cold spell continues with night temperatures set to drop lower before the week is out. A thaw begins this weekend.As we've reported on our Twitter news feed https://twitter.com/slimbridge_wild the majority of the birds are to be found on South Lake, R

14 December 2022

Snow and ice disperses wildfowl and waders plus WeBS count for yesterday

It snowed all day yesterday, a slight thaw followed by a re-freeze led to some path closures and diversions today, we scraped and gritted to open access to Discovery Hide and Estuary Tower. The cold weather has meant that 75% of our freshwater is frozen w

12 December 2022

Sub-zero birding, and the Scaup remains

The temperatures have plunged to end the week, down as low as -5oC overnight leaving much of the reserve's shallower water bodies frozen.

9 December 2022

Greater Scaup with the diving ducks

Late yesterday afternoon at the Wild Bird feed a juvenile-first winter drake Greater Scaup was spotted on the Rushy

5 December 2022

Merlin on the lookout

The reserve typically hosts at least one wintering Merlin, a few sightings of males were made earlier in the autumn but recent encounters suggest that a female has settled to winter

28 November 2022

Largest gathering of Bewick's Swans in the UK at the moment?

We noted 33 Bewick's Swans on Sunday 20th, and 43 on Monday 21 November, the majority of the birds have been favouring the Rushy or Tack Piece

21 November 2022

More arrivals

We've seen another eight Bewick's Swans arrive this morning, bringing us to 21 birds on the pond

19 November 2022

Numbers building

The numbers of our winter birds have been building this week, especially Lapwing, Golden Plover, several duck and a record count of Black-tailed Godwit

18 November 2022