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Today's sightings
The Zeiss Hide Bittern 1- Showing well Cetti's Warbler 1 Water Rail 1 Teal 550 The Holden Tower Tundra Bean Gooose 3 White-fronted Goose 220 Barnacle Goose 140 Egyptian Goose 1 Golden Plover 700 Dunlin 500 Curlew 60 Lapwing 1600 Reserve Short-eared Owl 1
19 February 2013
Today's sightings
Holden Tower Tundra Bean Goose 3 E White-fronted Goose 221 Peregrine 1 Crane 4 (GCP) seen dancing and feeding on seawall from Holden Tower. Tack Piece Lapwing 900 Dunlin 400 Golden Plover 200 Ruff 3 Redshank 20 Teal 340 Wigeon 800 Pochard 90 Pintail 100 C
18 February 2013
Today's sightings
Holden Tower The 200+ E White-fronted Geese and three Tundra Bean Geese showed all day on the Dumbles along with 140 Barnacle Geese, 1 Egyptian Goose, Peregrine, 400 Dunlin, 1000 Lapwing and 400 Golden Plover. A Knot was on the estuary at high tide. Two L
17 February 2013
Today's sightings-Yet more Wigeons!
Hybrid drake American Wigeon X Eurasian Wigeon on the Tack Piece JSLees Amazingly we now have a new drake American Wigeon x Eurasian Wigeon hybrid to go with a female American Wigeon, 2500 Eursian Wigeon and one leucistic Eurasian Wigeon! The Holden Tow
16 February 2013
Today's sightings-Wigeons!
Leucistic Wigeon top and American wigeon bottom JSLees The Holden Tower AMERICAN WIGEON 1 Female feeding with 300 Eurasian Wigeons including a leucistic female bird that was half white. Wigeon 300 Shelduck 80 Tundra Bean Goose 3 White-fronted Go
15 February 2013
Today's sightings
Holden Tower E. White-fronted Goose 207 Tundra Bean Goose 3 (2 adults and a 1st winter) Egyptian Goose 1 Barnacle Goose 134 Wigeon 300 Oystercatcher 3 flew down channel at high tide, 2 on Knott Pool. Gadwall 4 over the estuary Tack Piece Golden Plover 120
14 February 2013
Today's sightings
The Zeiss Hide Bittern 1 Showing very well feeding very close to the hide again. Grey Heron 1 Black-tailed Godwit 93 Lapwing 450 Wigeon 400 Teal 700 The Holden Tower Tundra Bean Goose 3 White-fronted Goose 208 Barnacle Goose 103 Peregrine 1 Buzzard 6 Wige
13 February 2013
Today's sightings
The Bittern was showing well again this morning and was photographed catching a Roach Copyright JSLees The Zeiss Hide Bittern 1 Showing very well Grey Heron 1 Teal 600 Wigeon 500 Shoveler 30 Buzzard 2 The Holden Tower Merlin 1 First winter female Peregr
12 February 2013
Today's sightings
WeBS count The monthly count revealed 11,300 wetland birds present. Including 2460 Lapwing (see below) Image-MJMcGill Holden Tower 0900 ish. Immature (appears to be a juvenile/1st winter) Glaucous Gull- flew in from south and landed with Great-blacked Gu
11 February 2013
Today's sightings
Holden Tower White-fronted Geese 21 (the main flock, c200 appear to have been in a remote field to NE, another party fed in the 50 Acre to the N and had a single Tundra Bean Goose among them) Tundra Bean Goose a single adult fed in the pools with 50 Bewi
10 February 2013
Today's sightings
The Holden Tower Tundra Bean Goose 3 White-fronted Goose 207 Egyptian Goose 1 Branacle Goose 140 Curlew 80 Wigeon 500 Peregrine 1 Buzzard 3 Yellow-legged Gull 1 The Zeiss Hide Bittern 1 Grey Heron 1 Black-tailed Godwit 83 Snipe 1 Lapwing 800 Teal 950 Wige
9 February 2013
Today's sightings
The Rushy Bewick's swan 294 At dawn The Tack Piece Golden plover 500 Dunlin 300 Lapwing 1800 Oystercatcher 1 Redshank 45 Pintail 300 Wigeon 1000 Teal 450 The Holden Tower Tundra Bean Goose 3 ( Adult female, Adult male, first winter female) White-fronted G
8 February 2013
Today's sightings
A cold night left a thin covering of ice around the shallow waters and quieter parts of the reserve. Holden Tower/Tack Piece Short-eared Owl hunting at 0830. Cranes-4 (GCP) feeding in the Winter bird survival crop-Goose House Ground. E White-fronted Goose
7 February 2013
Today's sightings
White-fronted Geese flying over the Tack Piece Copyright JSLees The Tack Piece Common Crane 4 (GCP) Then flew to maize field behind. Golden Plover 180 Dunlin 350 Redshank 50 Ruff 8 Snipe 3 Lapwing 1700 Curlew 15 pintail 300 Wigeon 1000 Teal 500 Peregrine
6 February 2013
Today's sightings
The Rushy Bewick's Swan 237 The Tack Piece Common Crane 4 (GCP) Pintail 306 Wigeon 700 Teal 500 Shoveler 40 Dunlin 500 Redshank 50 The Holden Tower Tundra Bean Goose 3 White-fronted Goose 180 Barnacle Goose 140 Peregrine 1 Dunlin 300 Golden Plover 500 Th
5 February 2013