What do I do with this eel I've just caught! Tastes yucky! I'll wash my mouth out and leave it for someone else to deal with!
Herring Gull, Rushy hide, WWT Slimbridge, 22/09/26, pm. @wwtsightings.bsky.social #WWTSlimbridgeSightings #GlosBirds

What do I do with this eel I've just caught! Tastes yucky! I'll wash my mouth out and leave it for someone else to deal with!
Herring Gull, Rushy hide, WWT Slimbridge, 22/09/26, pm. @wwtsightings.bsky.social #WWTSlimbridgeSightings #GlosBirds
Top New Piece- 2 Greenshank, 5 Black-tailed Godwit, 6 Snipe, 2 Ruff, 2 Green Sandpiper, 14 Cattle Egret #WWTSlimbridgeSightings #GlosBirds
Rushy Hide/Peng Observatory- 3 Garganey, Ruff, Redshank, Snipe, Spotted Redshank, Lapwing, Little Grebe, Great Egret #WWTSlimbridgeSightings #GlosBirds
Willow Emerald Damselflies in tandem and ovipositing yesterday at WWT Slimbridge..
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Duck Decoy hide, WWT Slimbridge, 21/09/26. Late afternoon.
16:34. Little Grebe
16:38. Male Mandarin flies in.
16:51. 7 more Mandarin (4f 3m) fly in. (6 in pic). All 8 gradually disappear into pipe to left of hide.
17:27. Male KIngfisher appears.
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Top New Piece- 4 Ruff, c70 Teal, Pintail and a few Shoveler.
South Finger Reed/Filtration Beds- from the viewing screen- 2 Wigeon, 4 Teal, 38 Gadwall feeding on duck weed, 3 male Blackcap, 5 Chiffchaff with tit flock or on berries #WWTSlimbridgeSightings.
Estuary Tower/Middle Point- Spoonbill, Great and 3 Little Egrets in tidal pools/creeks, c50 Dunlin with 3 Sanderling, 3 Wigeon, 326 Shelduck, Peregrine and Yellow Wagtail with cattle on the Dumbles + 30 Meadow Pipit and 15 Skylark, 7 Reed Bunting at the point #GlosBirds #WWTSlimbridgeSightings
Rushy Hide/Peng Observatory- 4 Garganey, 6 Spotted Redshank, 4 Greenshank, 4 Ruff, 4 Black-tailed Godwit, 5 Redshank, 8 Snipe, Little + Great Egret, flock of Teal, Shoveler, Gadwall.
Tack Piece- 2 Spotted Redshank, c40 Teal, Golden Plover flying around calling. #GlosBirds #WWTSlimbridgeSightings
Kingfisher from the Martin Smith Hide yesterday morning at WWT Slimbridge..
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Willow Emerald Damselflies seen ovipositing at WWT Slimbridge this afternoon.. Fabulous to watch . #WWTSlimbridgeSightings
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Snipe within 6 feet of the Rushy hide, WWT Slimbridge, 20/09/2026, 5.15pm. @wwtsightings.bsky.social #WWTSlimbridgeSightings #GlosBirds
2 male and one female(hidden behind left male) Mandarin, Duck Decoy pond, WWT Slimbridge, 20/09/2026, 5pm. @wwtsightings.bsky.social #WWTSlimbridgeSightings #GlosBirds
Osprey on the Severn sands off the Dumbles, feeding on a fish #WWTSlimbridgeSightings #GlosBirds
Brief sighting of a Water Rail from Martin Smith Hide at Slimbridge about 10:50 this morning #GlosBirds #wwtslimbridgesightings