Reserve Update Thursday 9th August
Decided Autumnal feeling to the weather first thing this morning. The hawthorn below the Avenue Tower is once again proving to be a draw to passage migrants with Willow Warbler, Reed Bunting, Whitethroat, Tree Sparrow and Goldfinch again seen.
Two Green Sandpipers are in the Flood Ground again today as of 12:00.
Good numbers of Curlew travelling around the site with Folly Pond and Newfield Hides the best bets to see them (when they are not flying over). Snipe are also often to be heard flying across with one first thing this morning over Folly Pond.
Today's high tide is at 11:08, 8.7m.
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 Loostestrife
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 30
Mute Swan 2 plus 6 cygnets (often on Back Pond)
Folly Pond
Mallard 20
Teal 4
Snipe 1
Lapwing 30
Curlew 5
Moorhen 1
Grey Heron 1
Teal Pond
Grey Heron 1
Mallard 24
Moorhen 2
Avenue Tower
Mallard 7
Grey Heron 1
Teal 2
Green Sandpiper 2
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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