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Todays Sightings
Wader Lake Avocet - 9 + 9 chicks Redshank - 2 Lapwing - 10 Oystercatcher - 4 Curlew- 1 Common Tern - 23 Gery Heron - 71 Swallow - 44 Sand Martin - 8 House Marti [...]
11 May 2012
Todays Sightings
Wader Lake Avocet - 8 + 9 Chicks Redshank - 2 Lapwing - 7 Oystercatcher - 4 Common Tern - 15 Gery Heron - 62 Swallow - 44 House Martin - 7 Sand Martin - 2 Gadwa [...]
10 May 2012
Today's Sightings
Wader Lake AM Avocet 8 + 9 chicks Oystercatcher 4 Shoveler 3 Teal 4 Heron 43 Tufted Duck 26 Common Tern 18 Coot 2 Mo [...]
9 May 2012
Todays Sightings
Wader Lake Avocets - 8 (11 Chicks & 4th brood hatching) Oystercatcher - 5 Lapwing - 6 Redshank - 2 Common Tern - 12 Shelduck - 10 Gadwall - 2 Tufted Duck - 7 [...]
8 May 2012
sightings Sunday 6th May
WADER LAKE Avocet - 8 adults + 10 chicks Greylag goose - 13 adults + 10 chicks Canada goose - 6 Oystercatcher - 2 Common tern - 5 Shelduck - 8 Tufted duck - 24 Grey her [...]
6 May 2012
Today's Sightings
Wader Lake - PM Avocet - 6 + 4 Juveniles Tufted Duck - 19 Shelduck - 34 Little Ringed Plover - 1 Pied Wagtail - 1 Swallow - 16 Sand Martin - 6 House Martin - 3 Oys [...]
4 May 2012
Todays Sightings
Wader Lake Avocet - 8 + 4 chicks Shelduck - 16 Greylag - 16 + 16 chicks Canada goose - 8 Lapwing - 12 Teal - 16 Heron - 36 Shoveler - 2 Moorhen - 3 Coot - 1 [...]
30 April 2012
Todays Sightings
Wader Lake Avocet - 8 + 4 Chicks Oystercatcher - 4 Redshank - 2 Lapwing - 7 Common Tern - 15 Grey Heron - 39 Swallow - 11 Shoveler - 4 Gadwall - 2 Shelduck - 11 [...]
28 April 2012
Todays Sightings
Wader Lake AM High Tide Avocet 8 + 4 chicks Oystercatcher 4 Pied Wagtail 2 Redshank 3 Lapwing 10 Common Tern 10 Swallow 15 San [...]
27 April 2012
Avocet update
Four avocet chicks have now hatched in the first nest and are making tentative forays into the lake. There are still three clutches to go and our wardens are on standby to lower the water levels via t [...]
26 April 2012
Todays sightings
Wader Lake A.M/ High tide Avocet 8 + 4 chicks Oystercatcher 5 Lapwing 9 Common Tern 5 Gadwall 2 Shoveler 4 Grey Heron 46 Sheld [...]
26 April 2012
More avocet chicks!
And then there were three! A bit hard to make out but there really is a trio of avocet chicks in this here nest. Thanks to Ian Hamilton, one of our volunteers, for donating the pic. The avocets, of co [...]
24 April 2012
Todays Sightings
Wader Lake Avocet - 8 (first chick hatched) Oystercatcher - 4 Lapwing - 10 Redshank - 5 Common Tern - - 7 Shoveler - 15 Gadwall - 15 Shelduck - 9 Tufted Duck [...]
24 April 2012
Avocet chick
Happy birthday to our first avocet chick of the season! Pics to follow and looks like mam is possibly brooding a second. [...]
24 April 2012
Bittern
A bittern has just been flushed from Top Meadow, looks like it headed down to Wader Lake! [...]
24 April 2012