Caerlaverock blog
Todays Sightings
Whooper Pond Mute Swans with 6 cygnets Mallard with ducklings Gadwall 2 House Martins, Swallows and Sand Martin all feeding Folly Pond Gadwall 3 Shelduck 3 Black-headed  [...]
31 May 2012
Todays Sightings
Whooper Pond Mute Swans with 6 cygnets Mallard with ducklings Gadwall 2 Folly Pond Greylag Goose 4 Starling 350 Shelduck 9 Shoveler 2 House Martin 30 Sand Martin 25 Avenu [...]
30 May 2012
Todays Sightings
Badger cub yesterday on the Meadow Walk, M.Youdale, © Copyright 2012 WWT A stunning looking drake GARGANEY again today on the Folly Pond . Such beautiful looking birds! at exactly the sa [...]
29 May 2012
Todays Sightings
Drake Garganey on Whooper Pond this morning, M.Youdale © Copyright 2012 WWT A stunning looking drake GARGANEY today on the Whooper Pond then it lifted and as I type this is swimming around in [...]
28 May 2012
Today's Sightings
Whooper Pond Mute Swan 2 with 6 cygnets Wigeon 2 Gadwall 2 Tufted Duck 1 Folly Pond Black-tailed Godwit 2 Shoveler 3 Flood Ground Wigeon 2 Heron 1 Avenue's Co [...]
27 May 2012
26th May 2012
Another bright cloudless day with a stiff easterly breeze. Yesterday's Black-tailed Godwits have disappeared, replaced by 2 Greenshanks on the Floodground with a pair of Wigeon lingering ther [...]
26 May 2012
25th May 2012
Another scorcher. 12 Black-tailed Godwits on the Folly Pond, several Common Whitethroats singing with a pair quite prominent near the Avenue Tower, where sadly no sign today of both the earlier L [...]
25 May 2012
Todays Sightings
Whooper Pond Mute Swan and 6 Cygnets Pied Wagtail 1 Teal Pond Little Grebe on nest Oystercatcher on nest Flood Ground Wigeon 2 Pied Wagtail 1 Lapwing 2 with 1 chick Stock [...]
24 May 2012
Todays Sightings
Whooper Pond Mutes 2+6 cygnets Mallard 25 Moorhen 4 Pied Wagtail 2 Folly pond Pied Wagtail 2 Black tailed Godwits 7 Sheldck 7 Mallard&nbs [...]
23 May 2012
Not looking good for a second replacement clutch for the Caerlaverock ospreys
It is not looking good for a second replacement clutch for the Caerlaverock ospreys. Although our female and her mate, yellow 08 are still around the nest site we didn't see them on the nest yesterday or so far today. Time is marching on and being realist
22 May 2012
Todays Sightings
Avenue's SPOTTED FLYCATCHER 1 Common Whitethroat Sedge Warbler Willow Warbler Chiffchaff Blackcap Reed Bunting Skylark Meadow pipit Lots of fledged young again such as Great [...]
22 May 2012
Todays Sightings
Avenue & Meadow Walk LESSER WHITETHROAT (unusual bird here at Caerlaverock) Common Whitethroat Sedge Warbler Blackcap Willow Warbler Chiffchaff Reed Bunting Skylark Meadow Pipi [...]
21 May 2012
May 19th 2012
Garden Warbler, Willow Warbler and Chiffchaff still singing from the Peter Scott Trail, despite the cold easterly wind. Further Willow Warblers and Blackcaps and Sedge Warblers from the two avenues an [...]
19 May 2012
Todays Sightings
Whooper Pond Oystercatcher 3 Tufted Duck 1 Teal Pond Little Grebe on nest Mute Swan on nest Folly Pond Gadwall 4 Shoveler 5 Shelduck 3 Oystercatcher 2 Teal 3 Wigeon 4 [...]
17 May 2012
Osprey eggs lost!
At the osprey nest, everything had been going well with the incubation until Saturday 12th of May when yet another intruder osprey arrived at the nest. It was a bird with a blue ring with white letters on it's left leg, butwe did not get a good enough lo
16 May 2012