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Recent Sightings - 16/2/14
19th February RECENT SIGHTINGS ‘Endangered’ - half term week Main Lake Spoonbill - Mike Caiden • 1 Cormorant • 3 Litle Egrets • 1 Little Grebe • 100 Black headed gulls Wader marsh • 1 Spoonbill • 1 Lit
19 February 2014
Recent Sightings
Recent Sightings from 9 February include: Spoonbill is still around reserve, often appearing on the Wader Marsh A sparrowhawk was seen at the Fresh Water Lagoon where the Kingfisher also made an appearance Main Lake – 2 Cormorants, 12 Gadwall and 4 Tuf
12 February 2014
Recent Sightings
Estuary From the brent hide 3 great crested grebes, 18 shelduck, 46 eider, 3 cormorants, 1 shag, 280 oystercatchers on roost island with 700 dunlin Limekiln Observatory 71 shelduck, 8 great crested grebes, 53 eider, 14 redshanks, 18 dunlin, 6 knot and 85
3 February 2014
Recent Sightings
Estuary 6 great crested grebes, 33 grey plover, 45 widgeon, 8 shoveler, golden eye, heron, 385 dunlin, 83 curlew, 333 oystercatchers, 65 black tailed godwit, 16 bar tailed godwit General Kingfisher spotted on Saline Lagoon along side little grebe Main
20 January 2014
Recent Sightings
Main Lake 335 Mallard, 23 Tufted Ducks, 4 Coots, 1 Cormorant, 1 Little Grebe, 1 Gadwall, 21 Black Headed Gulls Wader Marsh 1 Curlew, 1 Shelduck, 4 Redshanks 25 Oystercatchers at brickworks, Spoonbill at Brent Hide alongside a high number of Shelduck f
17 January 2014
Recent Sightings
The spoonbill has been sighted on both the Peninsula Saltmarsh and the Wader Marsh. Along with 44 oystercatchers, 4 redshank, 2 turnstone, 16 linnet, 1 merlin, little egret, greenshank Main Lake 41 gadwall, cormorant, 25 tufted ducks, 320 mallard, 7 pinta
6 January 2014
Recent Sightings
Main Lake 12 tufted ducks, 21 gadwalls, 37 black headed gulls, 1 heron, 1 cormorant, 327 mallard, 1 pintail, Saline Lagoon 2 greenshank, little egret Wader Marsh Curlew and 5 redshank King fisher was spotted on the Limestone Lake Spoonbill is still about
17 December 2013
Recent Sightings
200 Brent Outside the Brent Hide and Limekiln Observatory with Shelduck further out. Redshank forging both on shoreline and Wader Marsh. Main Lake had flock of 20 greylag with 1 Barnacle Goose, 9 gadwall, 1 heron, 6 little egrets and 1 cormorant. The Spoo
10 December 2013
Birdwatch Morning Sightings
20 visitors enjoyed todays ‘Birdwatch Morning’ with our local bird expert Dot Blakely. Lots of Knot and Brent spotted along with some noisy Greylag in flight. 5 Swans were also witnessed flying overhead. Little coal tits, blue tits and a robin enjoyed
28 November 2013
Recent Sightings
Main Lake 13 little egrets 2 mute swans 2 coots 5 tufted ducks Brick Works 30 oystercatchers Limestone Lake 2 little egrets Spoonbill update - Events took a tragic turn last Thursday, when the young spoonbill was found deceased on the mudflats.
25 November 2013
Recent Sightings
Main Lake 9 tufted ducks 1 cormorant 3 adult whooper with 5 cygnets 3 little egrets 258 mallards Spoonbill has been seen on both reserve and wader marsh Wader Marsh 13 redshank, 1 black tailed godwit and 1 greenshank King fisher spotted on Sal
19 November 2013
Recent Sightings
Main lake 3 little egrets 4 gadwall grey heron shoveler 24 greylag Wader Marsh little egret 2 redshank Peninsula Field 5 lapwings 2 curlew 2 oystercatchers Limestone lake 5 little grebe 4 little egrets 3000- 4500 brent on the Lough dispersing to Du
12 November 2013
Recent Sightings
Recent sightings at WWT Castle Espie (29 October - 5 November) include: 8 Little Egrets on Wader Marsh 1 Kingfisher at the Limestone Lake 55 whooper swans (flying overhead) 6 Little Egret, and 5 Shoveler in Main Lake 6 Greenshank, 2 Dunlin and 55 Redshan
6 November 2013
Recent Sightings
Main Lake 1 little egret 28 grey lag 5 gadwalls 1 grey heron 20 tufted ducks Wader Marsh 1 grey heron 60 redshank 6 greenshank 3 gadwalls 1 shelduck Peninsula Field 7 grey plover 30 lapwing Limestone lake 4 little grebes 12 oystercatchers Saline L
30 October 2013
Recent Sightings
Main Lake - 245 Mallards, 2 little grebes, 2 widgeon, 3 pintails, 1 curlew, 1 redshank, 1 greenshank, 40 graylag Gold finches feeding off feeders outside shop 2 buzzards outside shop King Fisher seen over limestone lake, main lake and saline lagoon Pier
22 October 2013