My Slimbridge WWT Sightings 24/10/12

Holden Tower

• 8 white fronted geese
• 2 little egrets
• 2 buzzards
• 14 long tailed tits
• 30 canada geese
• 2 banacle geese
• 30+ lapwing
• 10 gadwall
• 2 blue tits
• 1 robin
• Lots of gulls flew from the River Severn and from in land

NEW bird feeder hide

                                              Male chaffinches (left) and goldfinch (right)

Female chaffinch (left) and male (right)

• 3 chaffinches
• 2 blue tits
• 1 wood pigeon
• 1 goldfinch

The Rushy

                                                                 Little egret

                                                              Cormarants

                                                4 mallards ( 2 females and 2 males)
                                          and 9 pintails ( 7 males and 2 females)

1 female pintail (left) and a molting male (right)

• 30+ pintails
• 3 cormarants
• 1 little egret
• 20+ teal
• Mallard ducks
• No Bewick Swans yet
• 1 shelduck
• 1 wood pigeon
• Lots of black headed gulls but no other species

South lake

                                                3 herring gulls 2 adults and 1 1st winter

                                               1 adult male infront of the female behind

                                          1 black headed gull, 1 grey heron, several blackwits
                                          and the long billed dotwicher which is on the bottom
                                                                  right of the photo

                                                                     1 little grebe

• 2 grey herons
• 1 little egret
• 10 herring gulls
• 30 tufted ducks
• 40 black tailed godwits
• 1 LONG BILLED DOTWICHER
• 20 canada geese
• 26 teal
• 2 little grebes
• Shovelers and other ducks like mallards were sighted alot on the lake
• 4 cormarants
• Several types of gulls including 12 herring gulls and at least 30 black headed gulls
• 20 starlings in there autumn flocks
• 30 jackdaws came into roost in the trees at the back of the lake