Latest Sightings - Sunday 7th May - nests all around
Whilst exploring our LEGO® Brick animal trail, keep an eye on the new nesting rafts. Oystercatchers and Black-headed Gulls are building nests and sitting on eggs!
Jackdaws are also nesting at the moment, and keeping the Longhorn cattle groomed by taking their hair for nesting material! You can see them doing this from the Campbell Hide and the Avenue Tower.
Lapwing are beginning to nest in fields around the Avenue Tower, keep an eye out for them mobbing the Crows as they fly over.
Todays high tide is at 11:01, 8.4m
Around the reserve today:
Barnacle Geese: 15
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
Drinker Moth caterpillar
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 - lots of ducklings here!
Oystercatcher 2
Shelduck 6
Moorhen 2
Black-tailed Godwit 3
Teal Pond
Little Grebe 2 - nesting
Mute Swan 2 - nesting
Swallows - nest building in the hide - enter slowly and quietly
Avenue Tower
Barnacle Geese 15
Pink-footed Geese 8
Mute Swan 2 nesting
Wigeon 4
Wheatear 5
Lapwing 8
Black-headed Gull 8 - nesting
Oystercatcher 2 - nesting
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.
joe.bilous@wwt.org.uk
