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Glaucous gull - winter visitor

Glaucous gull - winter visitor

Glaucous gull by Ray Mathias When the marsh harrier is away, the gull.....gets its lunch?  This glaucous gull is a winter visitor to the UK.  Even this youngster is huge in size, it is worth checking through the gul

26 January 2017
Interesting tail fanning behaviour in snipe

Interesting tail fanning behaviour in snipe

Snipe tail fan display Kim Tarsey Fanning in winter; surely it’s too cold for that?! Look at these snipe fanning their tails to one another on the ice. It is very unusual to see this, let alone film it, as snipe ar

25 January 2017
Dawn swan count

Dawn swan count

Sunrise over WWT Welney This morning we conducted our January swan count and found there to be 2,413 Bewick's swans and 2,385 whooper swans on the WWT section of the Ouse Washes.  This means that Bewick's swan number

17 January 2017
Main hide works Wed 4-Fri 6 January

Main hide works Wed 4-Fri 6 January

These works have now been completed to put in place new flooring to the middle section of this hide.  Swan feeds will take place as normal using the remaining space in the main hide and the two wing hides, with a commentary and birds being fed in front o

3 January 2017
Leho arrives home for Christmas

Leho arrives home for Christmas

Leho the GPS tagged Bewick's swan Earlier this month a second GPS tagged Bewick's swan, Leho, arrived back at WWT Welney.  She is the third GPS tagged Bewick's swan to arrive back in the UK after Daisy Clarke and Ma

14 December 2016
Have you been to an evening swan feed yet?

Have you been to an evening swan feed yet?

Badger at the floodlit swan feed The evening floodlit swan feeds are the best chance to see large numbers of swans at a feed, as the swans have returned from the surrounding fields where they have spent the day feedin

2 December 2016
Wader spectacle building

Wader spectacle building

Black-tailed godwit flock by Heather Lowe Over the weekend water levels have risen, bringing many of the wading birds closer to the hides, as well as more birds arriving.  This is creating a hive of activity on the i

29 November 2016
Summer review

Summer review

Cattle leaving On Friday we said goodbye to the last herd of cattle as they returned to their farm.  To give you an idea of the summer management carried out on the reserve by staff, volunteers, contractors and lives

24 November 2016
Ready for the next influx of birds

Ready for the next influx of birds

Duck flock by Georgette Taylor The reserve is looking fantastic as we head further into winter....a visitor on Monday said that they had never seen so many wigeon, and we haven't even reached peak numbers yet! We are

23 November 2016
Daisy Clarke's migration is pieced together

Daisy Clarke's migration is pieced together

Daisy Clarke by Ray Mathias. We were so pleased to see Daisy Clarke arrive back at WWT Welney two weeks ago after her gruelling migration from arctic Russia.  It has been wonderful to follow her migration thanks to

22 November 2016
Swan Count

Swan Count

Main Lagoon as the swans started to fly out Thousands of swans are back now for the winter, with a particularly high November count:- WWT Welney: Whooper swan - 4262 Bewick's swan - 305 Ouse Washes total: Whooper swan

15 November 2016
Swan numbers increasing

Swan numbers increasing

This week more swans have been arriving at WWT Welney, making the reserve very busy.  We will be counting the whooper and Bewick's swans on Tuesday 15 November, but have got over 3,000 in total.  There are still over 1,000 swans on the main lagoon each

11 November 2016
Daisy Clarke is the first GPS tagged Bewick's swan to arrive at WWT Welney

Daisy Clarke is the first GPS tagged Bewick's swan to arrive at WWT Welney

The first GPS tagged Bewick's swan has arrived back in the UK this week. Daisy Clarke touched down in the early hours of Monday morning, having flown across The North Sea from The Netherlands.  She has been roosting in front of our Lyle and Friends hides

9 November 2016
Watch a thousand swans at the floodlit feeds

Watch a thousand swans at the floodlit feeds

Swans on the main lagoon by Bob Ellis The swan flight in and evening feed are incredible at the moment.  Thousands of swans are flying in at dusk right in front of the hides, with over a thousand on the main lagoon a

8 November 2016
Winter opening times

Winter opening times

Winter opening times from today, Tuesday 1 November.... Mon-Wed 10am - 5pm Thurs-Sun 10am - 8pm That means our floodlit swan feeds start this week - hooray!! Wigeon cafe is open from 10am daily, closing at: 4.30pm Mon-Fri 6pm Sat & Sun

1 November 2016