Out on the reserve today
Temminck's stint - 1 on the main lagoon One of the young water voles was very active and brave this morning, munching reeds in the open right beside the footbridge. Out on the pool next [...]
Temminck's stint - 1 on the main lagoon
One of the young water voles was very active and brave this morning, munching reeds in the open right beside the footbridge. Out on the pool next to the visitor centre on Bank farm there are lapwing and redshank chicks at the water's edge. In front of the North wing hide there is an adult wren seeing to its now fledging young. One of which decided to copy the adult by sitting on a wire but couldn't stay upright!
This week's moth trapping has been a mixed bag with not many good nights weather-wise so far but we have caught the following species since friday night:
Silver Y, Burnished brass, Common swift, Chocolate tip, White ermine, Poplar hawk moth and Spectacled moths.
Pond-dipping sessions this week have proved a change in what we found over the easter hols in April. Now we are finding alot more activity with higher numbers of backswimmers, water hoglouse and tiny caddis fly larvae with their casesl. In addition we now have dragonfly larvae, water beetle larvae and newt tadpoles which are also called 'efts'. You can tell the difference between these and frogs as the newts have external gills like feathers around the neck and they develop their front legs first, whereas, frogs do the back legs first.
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