Tag: Common cranes

  • 13th November 2025- WWT Slimbridge, Gloucestershire

    13th November 2025- WWT Slimbridge, Gloucestershire

    Another visit to Slimbridge and a very different day to our visit earlier in the week, with sunshine and very warm temperatures (15C) for this time of the year.

    It’s getting very exciting here with large numbers of birds arriving from the north. No whooper or Bewick swans yet, but a small number of white fronted geese have just arrived from the north of Russia.

    White fronted geese busy feeding to replenish the energy they took to get here

    Wigeon

    Common redshank

    Teal and common redshank

    Avocet

    Peregrine falcon surveying the geese

    Eurasian curlew

    Eurasian curlew

    Eurasian curlew

    The biggest flocks today were northern lapwing

    Common cranes with no tags – so naturally wild birds

    Common cranes

    Common crane

    Northern lapwing with common redshank
    Ruff