Tag Archives: Cormorant

Glossy Ibis – 19th October

October 19, 2025Recent wildlife sightingsBittern, Blackcap, Causeway, Cormorant, Deep Pit, Fieldfare, Glossy Ibis, Great White Egret, Large Gravel Pit, Marsh Harrier, pintail, Raven, Redwing, Slurry Lagoon, SnipePete Smith

Early on there was a Great White Egret on the Slurry Lagoon, plus three Snipe and a Pintail. By mid-morning a Bittern was seen on the Large Gravel Pit and a flock of 100 Cormorants. A cream-top Marsh Harrier worked its way through the site, hunting, a Blackcap was by the railway bridge and a pair of Ravens flew across the Slurry Lagoon. Three Glossy Ibis then put in an appearance, landing on the Slurry Lagoon. They then flew around the site before returning to the Slurry Lagoon. Small flocks of Fieldfares flew through and some Redwings were in the Causeway Hawthorn bushes.

Glossy Ibis – PS.

Willow Warbler – 6th April

April 6, 2012Recent wildlife sightings2012, 6th April, Common Tern, Cormorant, Deep Pit, Speckled Wood, weasel, Willow WarblerPete Smith

Despite the hard frost and cold wind there were still signs of spring at the lagoons this morning. On the Deep Pit a Common Tern dive bombed the Cormorants on the breeding platforms. Along the river bank a Willow Warbler was singing and several butterflies, including a Speckled Wood, were seen. PS. AE.

IMG_0162a - Speckled Wood — Speckled Wood

On the Causeway two Weasels were seen. JG.

Weasel b - John Gunn — Weasel on Causeway

Dunlin – 9th August

August 9, 2011Recent wildlife sightings9th August, Common Tern, Cormorant, Dunlin, Little Ringed Plover, SlurryJacqueline

A single Dunlin was feeding along the Slurry shoreline this afternoon and two Little Ringed Plovers were again on the Slurry. The Terns appear to have abandoned the Tern Platforms now their young have fledged and the Cormorants have been quick to take them over. JMD.

Hobby – 21st August

August 21, 2009Recent wildlife sightingsCommon Tern, Cormorant, HobbyCarol

A Hobby caused alarm amongst the swallows near the river bridge this morning, while in the deep water pit four Common Terns were mobbing a cormorant which was drying its wings on one of the platforms.