Wildlife sightings - 02/05/2017
AM high tide
Wader Lake
Avocet 17
Ringed plover 2 (pair)
Black-tailed godwit 15
Northern shoveler 5
Oystercatcher 3
Redshank 4
Swallow 3
Common tern 22
Gadwall 3
Shelduck 18
Tufted duck 9
Saline Lagoon
Mute swan 2
Avocet 5
Oystercatcher 1
Tufted duck 10
Lapwing 2
Hawthorn Wood
Coal tit 4
Bullfinch 12
Willow tit 1
Dunnock 2
Chaffinch 8
Goldfinch 6
Greenfinch 1
Other locations
A common whitethroat on the lagoon footpath and another outside of the Prince's Trust Hide
A reed warbler and a sedge warbler at the filter reedbed
Willow warbler singing across the reserve 7
Blackcap in Spring Gill Wood 2
Other species
A buff-tailed bumblebee (Queen)
A common carder bee
Tadpoles
Herb Robert
Red campion
Marsh marigold
Bluebell
Primrose
Hart's-tongue fern
Bugle
Self heal
Germander speedwell
