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WWT Sightings @wwtsightings.bsky.social · 19h

Top New Piece- 342 Teal , 45 Golden plover,14 Ruff, 5 Snipe, 5 Spotted redshank, 2 knot, 2 Green Sandpiper, 250 Dunlin, Little Stint, 8 Wigeon, Pintail, Marsh Harrier, Cetti’s Warbler, Curlew, Black-tailed Godwit Bottom New Piece- 6 Cattle Egrets #WWTSlimbridgeSightings #Glosbirds

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WWT Sightings @wwtsightings.bsky.social · 19h

South Lake- 5 Cattle egrets, 171 Black-tailed Godwit, Pintail, 5 Wigeon, 4 Ruff, 55 Shoveler, 95 Teal, 24 Lapwing,2 Snipe #WWTSlimbridgeSightings #Glosbirds

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WWT Sightings @wwtsightings.bsky.social · 19h

Rushy Hide- Great Egret, 3 Spotted Redshank, 5 Redshank Green Sandpiper, 3 Snipe and a Pintail #WWTSlimbridgeSightings #Glosbirds

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WWT Sightings @wwtsightings.bsky.social · 20h

Tack Piece- A Wood Sandpiper and Green Sandpiper feeding down the channel #Glosbirds #WWTSlimbridgeSightings

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WWT Sightings @wwtsightings.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Please note that a reserve work party will be active on the Tack Piece/Martin Smith, Robbie Garnett and Stephen Kirk hides area again today and tomorrow. #WWTSlimbridgeSightings #GlosBirds

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WWT Sightings @wwtsightings.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Bottom New Piece- 15 Cattle Egret with the Longhorn herd. Top New Piece- also Pintail and Wigeon among the Teal #WWTSlimbridgeSightings #GlosBirds

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WWT Sightings @wwtsightings.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Top New Piece- Green Sandpiper, Wood Sandpiper, 2 juvenile Little Stint, 9 Spotted Redshank, Little Grebe, calling Water Rail, 77 Lapwing, calling Cetti's Warbler, 22 Ruff, 16 Dunlin, 3 Black-tailed Godwit, GBB Gull #WWTSlimbridgeSightings #GlosBirds

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WWT Sightings @wwtsightings.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

South Lake- 12 Pochard plus Wigeon and Pintail on the North causeway among Gadwall, Mallard, Teal and Shoveler, on the scrape- 142 Black-tailed Godwit, Spotted Redshank, Ruff, 2 Knot, 2 Snipe, 10 Lapwing, Water Rail #GlosBirds #WWTSlimbridgeSightings

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WWT Sightings @wwtsightings.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Estuary Tower- 19 Cranes on Dumbles/Estuary, 2 Marsh Harriers. Fox, 20 Skylark, 21 Cattle Egret roosting on Long Ground Pool willow trees #WWTSlimbridgeSightings #GlosBirds

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Ken Mihill @kenmihill.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Great Spotted Woodpecker across the pond from the Duck Decoy hide , about same time (17:00) as 3 days ago. WWT Slimbridge, 28/09/2026. @wwtsightings.bsky.social #WWTSlimbridgeSightings #GlosBirds

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Ken Mihill @kenmihill.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Pintails on the Rushy, WWT Slimbridge, 28/09/2026, 15:30. @wwtsightings.bsky.social #WWTSlimbridgeSightings #GlosBirds

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Roberta @robertabirder.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The theme for #BirdOfTheDay is #Bokeh. So here is a European Bee-eater from Hungary last June #Birding

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WWT Sightings @wwtsightings.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

South Lake- 9 Cattle Egret, Spotted Redshank, 10 Ruff, 160 Black-tailed Godwit, 4 Snipe, 3 Pochard, flocks of Tufted Duck, Gadwall, Teal and Shoveler #GlosBirds #WWTSlimbridgeSightings

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WWT Sightings @wwtsightings.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Middle Point- 23 Bar-tailed Godwit and two Knot. Rushy Hide/Peng Observatory- Spotted Redshank, 5 Redshank, 2 Green Sandpiper, 2 Ruff, 6 Snipe, 3 Greenshank, 10 Lapwing, 7 Black-tailed Godwit, 9 Pintail, Little Grebe, Great and Little Egret, 2 Cormorant #GlosBirds #WWTSlimbridgeSightings

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WWT Sightings @wwtsightings.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Estuary Tower- Sparrowhawk, two Marsh Harrier and three Peregrine hassling the waders on Top New Piece and Dumbles foreshore, 10 Cranes. Tack Piece- 70 Teal. #WWTSlimbridgeSightings #GlosBirds

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WWT Sightings @wwtsightings.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Top New Piece- two Pectoral Sandpiper reported again, 4 Little Stint ( two juvenile including a colour-ringed bird), Curlew Sandpiper, Sanderling, c250 Dunlin, c30 Ringed Plover, c15 Ruff, c10 Spotted Redshank, 5 Golden Plover, 60 Lapwing, Black-tailed Godwit #WWTSlimbridgeSightings #GlosBirds

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WWT Sightings @wwtsightings.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Middle Point- Rock Pipit, 3 Meadow Pipit, Stonechat, 6 Cranes on the Dumbles, 5 on the Severn, 22 Curlew on the Dumbles, Pintail and 10 Wigeon #GlosBirds #WWTSlimbridgeSightings

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Roberta @robertabirder.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Just discovered that @atlanticbirding.bsky.social #BirdOfTheDay theme is #Seabirds or #Airborne so, with 45 minutes to go here is an Antipodean Albatross, seen off the coast of Chile in 2024

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Ella Slinn @ellaslinn.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Great views of the two Glossy Ibises which dropped in on the Rushy this morning for a quick preen before flying off north #WWTSlimbridgeSightings @wwtsightings.bsky.social #GlosBirds

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Roberta @robertabirder.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Finally today, some woodpeckers for #Kenya and #BirdsSeenIn2026 1. Nubian Woodpecker, 2&3 Eastern Grey Woodpecker - Naivasha Crater Lake. 4. Fine-banded Woodpecker (Campethera taeniolaema) - Mount Kenya NP. *New for the lists* 5&6 Bearded Woodpecker - in very poor light @tonyrinaud.bsky.social

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Roberta @robertabirder.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Four 'chickens' to add to the #Kenya list of #BirdsSeenIn2026, and honestly, they are all different! Hildebrandt's Spurfowl - Navaisha Crater Lake Jackson's Spurfowl - Aberdare Shelley's Francolin - Nairobi NP Crested Francolin - Tsavo West @tonyrinaud.bsky.social

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Roberta @robertabirder.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Moving on to some #Raptors for the #Kenya lists for #BirdsSeenIn2026 1&2. Palm-nut Vulture and 3. Black Kites - Busia Grasslands 4. Tawny Eagle - Samburu 5. African Harrier-hawk 'Gymnogene' - Mount Kenya NP 6. Dark Chanting Goshawk - Samburu @tonyrinaud.bsky.social

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Roberta @robertabirder.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Adding some Kingfishers to the #Kenya lists for #BirdsSeenIn2026 Pied Kingfisher - Lake Nakuru Woodland Kingfisher - Kisumu African Pigmy Kingfisher - Busia Grasslands

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Roberta @robertabirder.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

A quartet of Cisticolas from my March trip for the #Kenya lists of #BirdsSeenIn2026 1. Chubb's Cisticola - Kakamega NP. 2. Winding Cisiticola - Lake Nakuru 3&4 Lyne's Cisticola - Naivasha 5. Tiny Cisiticola - Tsavo West

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WWT Sightings @wwtsightings.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Two Pectoral Sandpipers reported on Top New Piece from Zeiss Hide #GlosBirds #WWTSlimbridgeSightings

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WWT Sightings @wwtsightings.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

South Lake- 160 Black-tailed Godwit, Green Sandpiper, 2 Snipe, Ruff, 79 Shoveler, 12 Lapwing, Little Grebe, flocks of Teal, Tufted Duck and Gadwall, 9 Cormorant, 4 Pochard #WWTSlimbridgeSightings #GlosBirds

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WWT Sightings @wwtsightings.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Rushy Hide/Pen Observatory- 4 Ruff, 3 Redshank, 5 Snipe, 10 Wigeon (but left), 7 Pintail, 29 Gadwall, 2 Greenshank, Great Egret, Green Sandpiper, 25 Lapwing, Little Grebe, Grey and Pied Wagtails, 11 Shoveler, #GlosBirds #WWTSlimbridgeSightings

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WWT Sightings @wwtsightings.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Estuary Tower/Dumbles/Middle Point- over high tide- 6 and 2 Arctic Terns, 4 Spoonbill (one remained), Bar-tailed Godwit, 2 Grey Plover, 2 Wigeon, 20 GBB Gull, 27 Little Egret, 5 Grey Haeron, 130 Starling, 13 Crane, Oytsercatcher, 17 Skylark, 4 Peregrine #WWTSlimbridgeSightings #GlosBirds

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WWT Sightings @wwtsightings.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Top New Piece from Zeiss Hide- 11 Spotted Redshank, 3 Knot, 21 Ruff, juvenile Wood Sandpiper, Green Sandpiper, 260 Dunlin, adult and juvenile Little Stint, 24 Ringed Plover, 61 Lapwing, 2 Golden Plover, 2 Snipe, 7 Wigeon, 70 Teal, Marsh Harrier, 7 Pintail #WWTSlimbridgeSightings #GlosBirds

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pauldmasters.bsky.social @pauldmasters.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The adult and juvenile Glossy Ibises were on the Rushy for ten minutes before flying fairly low to the north-east #Glosbirds @wwtsightings.bsky.social

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Roberta @robertabirder.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Have set myself the task of adding at least 20 new species to the #Kenya lists of #BirdsSeenIn2026 before tomorrow's update. Starting with a quartet of herons. We saw Great White Egrets and Black-headed Herons quite often during the trip, Goliath just twice and Grey Heron occasionally. #Wetlands

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Roberta @robertabirder.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The late afternoon light yesterday on the Rushy Pen at Slimbridge @wwtsightings.bsky.social was lovely. Lapwing, Snipe, and even the resident Mute Swans all showing beautifully! #GlosBirds #WaderLove #Wetlands

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