Up-to-date Wildlife Sightings


This web page is designed to provide current information (see date below) on wildlife sightings at Baron’s Haugh RSPB reserve.  This information will normally be gathered by members of Hamilton RSPB group and other visitors to the Haugh.                                              

If you have any interesting sightings to contribute, please click here. These sightings updated 30/09/09   Mosquito alert !!

Species

Location

Comments

2 Stonechats

Left of Centenary Hide

 

Snipe

Areas of open mud (west end)

Still one or two about

7 Black-tailed Godwits

Causeway Hide

Here in flight showing the pied plumage

2 Green Sandpipers

Carbarns Pool

 

Goldfinch Flock

Nr Carpark

This flock of c60 are feeding on the huge variety of seed plants there

Peregrine

Over haugh

Seen today - attacks lapwings and retires to centre pylon

173 Lapwing

On Haugh

 

3 eclipse Wigeon

Phoenix Hide/Carbarns Pool

 

Eclipse Pintail

Carbarns Pool

 

19 Shovelers

Centre of haugh

 

3 Tufted

On haugh

 

Jay

Over haugh

 

Buzzard

Centenary Hide

Check out the fence posts – designed for perching raptors! This one had just caught a short-tailed Field Vole

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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