Recent Sightings 22nd - 28th May
Highlights - Savi's Warbler, Cuckoo, Whimbrel, Long-Tailed Tits, Grass Snake and Wild Flowers.
Millennium Wetlands
The Savi's warbler and cuckoo have both been seen and heard regularly around the water treatment reed bed again this week. There is lots of new life on the reserve, including a family of long-tailed tits on the northern loop, as well as black headed gull and lapwing chicks, pochard ducklings and a gadwall with a whopping eighteen ducklings on deep water lake! Slow worms have been abundant in sunny spots this week and a large adult grass snake was spotted sunning itself by water vole city. Overall the millenium wetlands have developed a lot more colour with southern marsh orchid, ragged robin and forget me not flowering.
British Steel Hide
The highlights from the waders this week include whimbrel and knot. On the freshwater lagoon, swallows, swifts and martins are displaying their agile feeding skills in large numbers. There are many families of greylag goose and they are often seen linking up to form large and very cute creches of goslings! Out on the upper salt marsh, marsh mallow has started flowering which is a nationally scarce plant species found around the Burry inlet.
