Latest Sightings - Saturday 6th May
A bit more cloud around today which is good for bird watching as there is less glare and haze from the sun.
Swallows have begun nest building in the Teal Pond Hide, if you stand very still and quiet in the right-hand corner you can watch them flying in the window bringing nesting material.
Still 29 Barnacle Geese feeding in a field at the Avenue Tower, and the two remaining Whooper Swans are on the Whooper Pond.
A Weasel bounded across the Avenue near the Campbell Hide first thing this morning.
Todays high tide is at 10:04, 8.1m
Around the reserve today:
Barnacle Geese: 29
Wildflowers
Blackthorn
Ramsons
Red Campion
Cuckoo Flower
Bluebells
Primrose
Insects
Peacock Butterfly
Large White Butterfly
Large Red Damselfly
Early Bumblebee
Tree Bumblebee
Common Carder Bee
Beefly
Mammals
Brown Hare
Weasel
Roe Deer
Fox
Badger
Whooper Pond
Whooper Swan 2
Canada Goose 2
Mallard 15
Oystercatcher 2
Folly Pond
Common Sandpiper 1
Teal 5
Mallard 10
Oystercatcher 2
Shelduck 6
Moorhen 2
Black-tailed Godwit 7
Teal Pond
Little Grebe 2 - nesting
Mute Swan 2 - possibly rebuilding nest
Swallows - nest building in the hide - enter slowly and quietly
Avenue Tower
Barnacle Geese 29
Mute Swan 2 nesting
Wheatear 5
Lapwing 3
Black-headed Gull 8
Oystercatcher 2
Shelduck 6
Longhorn Cattle 3
Saltcot Merse Observatory
Peregrine
Kestrel
Osprey
Buzzard
Skylarks singing
Barnacle Geese
Hebridean Sheep 10
Avenues & Feeders
(notable species)
Reed Bunting
Yellowhammer
Sparrowhawk
Coal Tit
Long-tailed Tit
Goldcrest
Goldfinch
Greenfinch
Linnet
House Sparrow
Tree Sparrow
Treecreeper
Great-spotted Woodpecker
Chiffchaff
Willow Warbler
Blackcap
Garden Warbler
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Osprey Webcam
See live footage of our local Osprey nest here: http://www.wwt.org.uk/wetland-centres/caerlaverock/experience/ospreys/
The camera is online between 10am and 5pm daily.
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