Reserve Update Wednesday 18th July
Wood Sandpiper present on Flood Ground this morning. Avenue Tower is a good place to visit with 67 Lapwing and 24+ Curlew present feeding in the surrounding fields. Snipe are present all around the wetland areas but do take a bit of seeing at times! Our Bioblitz yesterday recorded over 300 species on site with more records expected in soon.
Today's high tide is at 17:18, 8.8m
Around the reserve:
Wildflowers
Gorse
Red Campion
Herb Robert
Dog Rose
Meadowsweet
Yellow Rattle
Buttercup
Bird's Foot Trefoil
Lesser Trefoil
White Clover
Red Clover
Valerian
Insects
Peacock Butterfly
Green-veined White Butterfly
Ringlet Butterfly
Meadow Brown Butterfly
Common Blue Butterfly
Red Admiral Butterfly
Tree Bumblebee
Buff-tailed Bumblebee
Common Carder Bumblebee
White-tailed Bunblebee
Emerald Damselfly
Large Red Damselfly
Four-spot Chaser Dragonfly
Common Blue Damselfly
Azure Damselfly
Blue-tailed Damselfly
Whooper Pond
Mallard 12
Mute Swan 2 plus 6 cygnets (often on Back Pond)
Grey Heron 1
Folly Pond
Mallard 20
Snipe 1
Moorhen 1
Grey Heron 1
Teal Pond
Grey Heron 1
Mallard 6
Moorhen 1
Snipe 2
Avenue Tower
Wood Sandpiper 1
Mallard 41
Grey Heron 1
Snipe 1
Curlew 24
Lapwing 67
Longhorn Cattle 2
Saltcot Merse Observatory
Kestrel
Buzzard
Mute Swan
Shelduck
Mallard
Lapwing
Oystercatcher
Curlew
Little Egret
Great Black-backed Gull
Black-headed Gull
Common Gull
Herring Gull
Hebridean Sheep 9
Avenues & Feeders
(notable species)
Reed Bunting
Sparrowhawk
Coal Tit
Long-tailed Tit
Goldfinch
Greenfinch
House Sparrow
Tree Sparrow
Treecreeper
Great-spotted Woodpecker
Goldcrest
Chiffchaff
Willow Warbler
Sedge Warbler
Blackcap
Webcam
Watch our Ospreys 10am-5pm every day: https://www.wwt.org.uk/wetland-centres/caerlaverock/experience/ospreys/
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