Recent Sightings
Brent numbers across the Lough – 8000 and growing
Main Lake
18 Tufted Ducks, 2 little grebes, 25 greylags, barnacle goose, 3 black tailed godwits, 8 teal
Fresh water lagoon
King Fisher, little grebe, 5 mute swans, 3 tufted ducks
General
3 little grebe on saline lagoon, buzzard seen over the wader marsh with 5 shelduck, i curlew, 30 teal, 4 pintails, 8 redshank, 3 black-tailed godwits. Peninsula field – 6 meadow pipits, 5 curlew
Insects
- Dragonflies spotted on the reserve – common hawker
- Butterflies including peacocks, large & small whites, common blues, holly blues
