Reserve Update Saturday 20th May
The Spotted Flycatcher has been seen down the Avenue for the past three days and was in the Hawthorn bushes once more again this morning. There is also a lot of Long-tailed Tit activity high in the Sycamore trees...maybe some little ones up there so keep your eyes peeled and let us know if you see any!
It is nesting day on the Teal Pond with the Mute Swan sitting to the left hand side of the hide, an Oystercatcher on the raft out front and a Swallow up in the hide on the left hand side. If you do go into the hide please go in quietly and try to remain to the right hand side to allow the Swallow to continue sitting in peace.
Todays high tide is at 20:27, 7.5m
Around the reserve today:
Barnacle Geese: 3
Wildflowers
Hawthorn
Ramsons
Red Campion
Cuckoo Flower
Bluebells
Herb Robert
Insects
Peacock Butterfly
Large White Butterfly
Orange Tip Butterfly
Green-veined White Butterfly
Large Red Damselfly
Early Bumblebee
Tree Bumblebee
Common Carder Bumblebee
Beefly
Drinker Moth caterpillar
Common Blue Damselfly
Mammals
Brown Hare
Weasel
Roe Deer
Fox
Badger
Otter
Soprano Pipistrelle Bat - evening
Whooper Pond
Whooper Swan 2
Mute Swan 1
Mallard 15
Moorhen 2
Folly Pond
Mallard 9 and ducklings
Moorhen 2 + 2 chicks
House Martins collecting mud
Teal Pond
Little Grebe 2 - nesting
Mute Swan 1 - nesting
Moorhen 1
Swallows - sitting on eggs on the left hand side - enter slowly and quietly
Oystercatcher 1 - possibly nesting on the raft
Avenue Tower
Barnacle Geese 3
Mute Swan 2 & 1 cygnet
Teal 1
Wigeon 1
Little Egret 2
Cormorant 1
Lapwing 8 - nesting
Black-headed Gull 16 - nesting
Shelduck 2
Mallard 5
Canada Geese 4
Greylag Goose 1
Moorhen 1
Longhorn Cattle 3
Saltcot Merse Observatory
Peregrine
Kestrel
Osprey
Buzzard
Skylarks singing
Hebridean Sheep 10
Avenues & Feeders
(notable species)
Reed Bunting
Sparrowhawk
Coal Tit
Long-tailed Tit
Goldfinch
Greenfinch
Linnet
House Sparrow
Tree Sparrow
Treecreeper
Great-spotted Woodpecker
Chiffchaff
Willow Warbler
Sedge 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.
rhiannon.hatfield@wwt.org.uk
