Just to remind you all that there is a guided walk happening at Langford Lowfields on Sunday 25th November. It starts at 2pm and will last a couple of hours. Prices are £10 non-RSPB members, £8 RSPB members and then half price for children. We'll be meeting in the Langford Lowfields car park, before heading out onto the reserve to see what wintry wildlife we can find. The walk will be going into the non-public part of the site so it'll be a great opportunity to see some of the amazing work we've completed recently in partnership with Tarmac. Please book a place on the walk be emailing langford.beckingham@rspb.org.uk. Also please note that over the next couple of weeks we are moving out of our old, leaky office and into a newer one and whilst this is happening we will not have an active landline.
As a flavour of what we might see on the Winter Wonderland Walk here are the wetland bird counts for November:
Cormorant
50
Wigeon
48
Gadwall
41
Mallard
61
Shoveller
26
Teal
171
Pochard
4
Tufted duck
137
Grey heron
Moorhen
6
Coot
46
Mute swan
18
Black headed gull
22
Common gull
10
Yellow legged gull
3
Greater black backed gull
5
Lesser black backed gull
98
Herring gull
Caspian gull
1
Green sandpiper
2
Dunlin
Great crested grebe
Little grebe
Greylag goose
7
Canada goose
Goldeneye
Lapwing
21
Other avian delights that have been seen recently include 2 bitterns, a great white egret, barn owls, flocks of redwing and fieldfares, 6 stonechats, 9 bearded tits, peregrine, 2 ravens and a few thousands starlings coming into roost in the evening. If you do come on the walk, remember it might be quite cold! and will be getting dark towards the end.
Photos below taken by Stuart Carlton, WeBS volunteer and Langford photographer extraordinaire. Lapwing and teal top. Little egret bottom.