Reserve Update Thursday 23rd August
Good range of species down on the Flood Ground this morning with Shoveler joining the mix. Over 180 Teal were observed there yesterday but numbers have dropped right down again first thing this morning. Rather bedraggled Kestrel perched on the fence line and female Sparrowhawk bombing around the Avenue Tower. the Willow tree down at Saltcot was good for Willow warblers and Linnets yesterday and raptor sightings from the Merse Observatory are creeping up (though maybe not today in all the mist and rain!) Tree Sparrow are around in good numbers particularly in the Peter Scott Trail and the hedgerows down to the Peter Scott Observatory.
Today's high tide is at 11:30, 7.9m
Around the reserve:
Wildflowers
Gorse
Red Campion
Meadowsweet
Yellow Rattle
Buttercup
Bird's Foot Trefoil
Lesser Trefoil
White Clover
Red Clover
Valerian
Creeping Thistle
Meadow Vetchling
Bush Vetch
Tufted Vetch
Purple Loosetstrife
Insects
Peacock Butterfly
Green-veined White Butterfly
Ringlet Butterfly
Meadow Brown Butterfly
Common Blue Butterfly
Red Admiral Butterfly
Tree Bumblebee
Buff-tailed Bumblebee
Common Carder Bumblebee
White-tailed Bunblebee
Emerald Damselfly
Large Red Damselfly
Four-spot Chaser Dragonfly
Common Blue Damselfly
Azure Damselfly
Blue-tailed Damselfly
Common Darter Dragonfly
Emperor Dragonfly
Whooper Pond
Mallard 18
Moorhen 2
Sparrowhawk 1
Folly Pond
Mallard 64
Teal 76
Wigeon 4
Curlew 12
Gadwall 4
Black-tailed Godwit 2
Moorhen 1
Teal Pond
Mallard 7
Moorhen 1
Mute Swan 2 plus 6 cygnets (often on Back Pond)
Avenue Tower
Mallard 116
Mute Swan 2
Shoveler 6
Gadwall 1
Teal 5
Kestrel 1
Longhorn Cattle 2
Saltcot Merse Observatory
Kestrel
Osprey
Buzzard
Mute Swan
Shelduck
Mallard
Lapwing
Oystercatcher
Curlew
Little Egret
Great Black-backed Gull
Black-headed Gull
Common Gull
Herring Gull
Hebridean Sheep 9
Avenues & Feeders
(notable species)
Reed Bunting
Sparrowhawk
Coal Tit
Long-tailed Tit
Goldfinch
Greenfinch
House Sparrow
Tree Sparrow
Treecreeper
Great-spotted Woodpecker
Goldcrest
Chiffchaff
Willow Warbler
Sedge Warbler
Blackcap
Webcam
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