Greater Flamingo on the River Severn
A second calendar year greater flamingo has been sighted on the River Severn close to WWT Slimbridge Wetland Centre. Identified by her green ring ‘LHH’, the young female flamingo belongs to Birdland Park and Gardens, in Bourton-on-the-Water, from where she has recently taken flight and become separated from her flock. Working closely with our colleagues at Birdland, we are monitoring her movements and keeping them updated. She currently appears healthy, coping well and not causing a disturbance to other birds.
Wednesday 4 November
Big Pen
A Drake Scaup was on the South Lake deep lake first thing this morning; it has now joined the Tufted Ducks on the Big Pen.
350 Golden Plover, 400 Lapwing, Sparrowhawk, 2 Little Grebe and a Marsh Harrier.
Top New Piece
Two Spoonbills, Great White Egret, 8 Ruff, 26 Dunlin, Snipe, 193 Lapwing, 28 Black tailed godwit, 90 Golden Plover, 16 cranes (12 unringed, Oakie, Sherbert, Kia, Pepe) 2 Marsh Harrier and a Buzzard.
South Lake
Fifty-four Black-tailed Godwit, 25 Tufted Duck, 18 Pochard, Pintail, 56 Shoveler and 273 Lapwing.
Tack Piece
237 Teal, 191 Wigeon, 12 Shoveler, 15 Pintail, 3 Shelduck, 7 White-fronted Geese, 4 Pink-footed Geese on the scrape, Bar-headed Goose, Snow Goose, 58 Barnacle Geese, 87 Greylag Geese, 194 Canada geese, 2 Egyptian Geese, 70 Starling, 23 Lapwing and a Marsh Harrier.
Lower Dumbles
Ross’s Goose with approximately 100 Barnacle Geese and 150 Canada Geese.
Dumbles
Peregrine, 38 Canada Geese, 4 Greylag Geese, 87 Rooks, Skylark, Lapwing, 15 Goldfinch, Marsh harrier and a Fox on the seawall.
Pill Box Pool
Eight Teal.
Long ground pool
Nineteen Teal.
Tuesday 3 November
Martin Smith Hide
Peregrine sat on Tack Piece.
Tin Shed Ground
Eight Cattle Egrets were feeding amongst the longhorn cattle.
South Finger Reedbed
Approximately thirty Redwing with two Fieldfare flew over and a Cetti's Warbler was calling first thing this morning.
South Finger Extension
Two Little Grebe, Shoveler, 5 Gadwall, 3 Wigeon, 2 Water Rail, 10 Redwing, 3 Chaffinch, 3 Blue Tit and a Great Tit were on the feeders.
Bottom New Piece
63 Greylag, 169 Lapwing, 500+ Golden Plover, 58 Starling and 2 Roe Deer.
Top New Piece
A Bittern was seen again in the recently cut rides, 14 Teal, 7 Shoveler, 2 Snipe and a hunting juvenile Marsh Harrier flushed the majority of Teal.
Kia, Pepe and a juvenile, Ruby and her mate, Evie and her mate, Oakie & Sherbert plus 11 unringed cranes.
South Lake
A Male Goldeneye was visible briefly before flying towards the Ziess Hide, 236 Tufted Duck, 32 Pochard, 76 Shoveler, 78 Teal, 9 Pintail, 3 Gadwall, Shelduck, 98 Black-tailed Godwit, 5 Lapwing,11 Black-headed Gull, Common Gull, Great Black-backed Gull, 8 Cormorant, Snipe and 60 Greylag Geese.
Monday 2 November
South Finger Extension
Six Gadwall and 4 Shoveler.
Bottom New Piece
Thirteen Graylag and 20 Starling.
Top New Piece
Eighteen Ruff, 5 Dunlin, 35 Lapwing, 2 Herring Gull, Snipe, Grey Heron, 32 Starling, 4 Cranes and a Bittern.
South Lake
89 Black-tailed Godwit, 2 Spotted Redshank, 253 Lapwing, 56 Shoveler, 4 Pochard, 25 Tufted Duck, 3 Pintail, 4 Common Gull and a Kingfisher shot past.
Tack Piece
Large numbers of Wigeon and Tea, 2 Egyptian Geese, 26 Whitefronts and 8 Pink-footed Geese.
Martin Smith Pool
A single Snipe and a female Marsh Harrier flew over.
Dumbles
A Kestrel, 15 Great Black-backed Gull on the river Severn and Fox hunting.
Rushy
33 Teal, 19 Pintail, 19 Pochard,90 Tufted Duck, 52 Lapwing, a Redshank and 15 Shelduck.
