Reserve Update Thursday 18th May
Lovely start to the morning, with hawthorn blossom wafting on the breeze and the smell of wild garlic down the Avenue. A Spotted Flycatcher was seen briefly in the hawthorn trees on the walk.....juvenile robins and blackbirds are more evident. Sedge Warblers and Lapwing continue to fill the air with sound. A single mute swan cygnet is evident around the nest down on the Flood Ground.
Todays high tide is at 18:00, 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 13
Moorhen 2
Folly Pond
Mallard 9
Moorhen 2 + 2 chicks
House Martins collecting mud
Teal Pond
Little Grebe 2 - nesting
Mute Swan 2 - nesting
Moorhen 1
Mallard 2
Grey Heron 1
Swallows - nest building in the hide - enter slowly and quietly
Oystercatcher 1 - possibly nesting on the raft
Avenue Tower
Barnacle Geese 3
Mute Swan 2 nesting & 1 cygnet
Gadwall 1
Teal 3
Lapwing 8 - nesting
Black-headed Gull 12 - nesting
Shelduck 2
Mallard 8
Canada Geese 4
Greylag Goose 1
Black-tailed Godwit 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.
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