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Recent Sightings

Recent Sightings

Recent Sightings from 27 July 2013 include: Main Lake - 4 Mute Swans, Shelduck with 7 young and Tufted duck with 2 ducklings Wader Marsh - Common Sandpiper, 2 Redshank and Shelduck with 5 ducklings Fresh Water Lagoon - Arctic Tern (pair), 4 Tufted ducks,

30 July 2013

Recent Sightings

Recent Sightings

Recent sightings from 20th July include: Main Lake - 200 Mallards, 1 Shelduck with 14 young, 3 Tufted with 2 duckings 5 Mute Swans spotted on the Wader Marsh Saline Lagoon - 3 Herons, 6 Terns (including 2 Arctic Terns) and 1 Little Grebe with 1 youngster

25 July 2013

Recent Sightings

Recent Sightings

Recent sightings from 6 July 2013 included: Main Lake – 2 Mute Swans, 18 Tufted Ducks with young, 4 Greylags and 4 Shelducks Wader Marsh – 4 Shelduck with 11 ducklings Limestone Lake – 2 Little Grebes with 2 young, 2 Greylag Geese with 4 goslings F

9 July 2013

Recent Sightings

Recent Sightings

Recent sightings from 29 June 2013 included: Limestone Lake - 2 Kingfishers, a Little Grebe with young, 2 Greylags with goslings and 2 Mute Swans Peninsula Salt Marsh - 3 Ringed Plover 2 Small White Butterflies were spotted in the Sustainable Garden Mai

4 July 2013

Recent Sightings

Recent Sightings

Recent sightings from 23 June 2013 included: Main Lake – 2 Shelducks with ducklings, 1 Little Grebe and 2 Gadwall Gravel Bank – 2 Shelduck with ducklings Fresh Water Lagoon – 2 Tufted Ducks with 9 ducklings Peninsula Salt Marsh – 2 Dunlin, 1 Ring

26 June 2013

Recent Sightings

Recent Sightings

Recent sightings from 18 June 2013 included: Main Lake - Families of Shelduck and Tufted Duck A little brood of Mallard have been spotted in the Plumbs Wader Marsh - 3 Black Tailed Godwit, Common Tern and 2 Shelducks Plants include Marsh Marigold, Cucko

19 June 2013

Recent Sightings

Recent Sightings

Recent sightings from 7 June 2013 included: Main Lake – 19 Tufted Ducks, 6 Shelducks, 40 Black Tailed Godwits on the grassbank Fresh Water Lagoon – 1 Sandwich Tern, 6 Tufted Ducks and 2 Greylags Saline Lagoon – 60 Black Headed Gulls and 3 Tufted Du

12 June 2013

Recent Sightings

Recent Sightings

Recent sightings from 2 June 2013 included: Main Lake – 18 Tufted Ducks, 35 Mallards, 130 Black Headed gulls, 5 Lesser Black Backed Gulls, 9 Shelduck Wader Marsh – 2 Shelducks, 2 Mute Swans, 35 Black Headed Gulls Little Grebe are nesting on the Limes

5 June 2013

Recent Sightings

Recent Sightings

Recent sightings from 25 May 2013 included: Main Lake - 28 Mallard, 16 Tufted Ducks, 14 Shelducks and 1 Little Grebe Wader Marsh - 2 Common Gulls amongst the Black Headed Sedge Warbler also on Wader Marsh Swallows can be seen zooming over the Fresh Water

30 May 2013

Recent Sightings

Recent Sightings

Peninsula Saltmarsh – 2 ringed plover on nest, 1 black tailed godwit Peninsula Field – 16 curlew, 1 whimbrel, 3 ringed plover, 5 shelduck Main Lake - 15 tufted ducks, 9 shelduck, Fresh Water Lagoon – 30 + swallows and swifts also spotted Sightings

19 May 2013

Recent Sightings

Recent Sightings

•  Main Lake - 22 shelduck, 48 tufted ducks, 3 gadwalls, 1 cormorant •  Wader Marsh – 4 Shelducks •  Fresh Water Lagoon - 8 tufted ducks and 2 gadwalls •  Peninsula Saltmarsh – 2 ringed plover (on nest) •  Peninsula Field – 1 Dunlin,

15 May 2013

Recent Sightings

Recent Sightings

Sightings from the 4th May have included:   Main Lake: 35 Tufted ducks, 45 Mallard, 6 Gadwall and 6 Shelducks. Wader Marsh: 4 Shelduck, 15 Black Tailed Godwits and 3 Redshank. Saline Lagoon: 4 Black Headed Gulls. Limestone Lake: 2 Little Grebes. Fox

7 May 2013

Recent Sightings

Recent Sightings

Estuary had 110 curlew, 50 redshank, 200 brent and 5 shelduck Peninsula Saltmarsh had 2 ringed plover, 8 oystercatchers, 16 black-headed gulls, 1 little egret, 4 brent and 1 swallow. Brickworks had 14 oystercatchers, 1 black-tailed godwit along with 3 li

22 April 2013

Recent Sightings

Recent Sightings

Hen harrier seen on the brickworks. One ringed plover on the Peninsula saltmarsh, with 1 little egret and 2 greenshank and 10 tufted ducks on the Limestone Lake. Wader Marsh sightings included 4 redshank, 1 greenshank, 3 shelduck. Fresh Water Lagoon - 2 m

8 April 2013

Recent Sightings

Recent Sightings

400 Brent on the islands with shelduck and eider on the Estuary. First mallard ducklings in the Plumbs. Main Lake had 35 tufted ducks, 8 gadwalls, 2 shelduck and high numbers of mallards. Wader Marsh had 5 redshank, 3 oystercatchers, 3 shelduck. Fresh Wa

1 April 2013