Wildlife sightings for 2nd September 2022
A lot of migrant passerine activity with great numbers of Yellow Wagtail, Willow Warbler and Chiffchaff recorded this morning, as well as a Spotted Flycatcher. Also Garganey, Green Sandpiper, Black-tailed Godwit and Snipe dropping in.
Birds
1 Black-tailed Godwit - over SE a.m.
3 Green Sandpiper - main lake
10 Snipe - main lake, reservoir lagoon, marsh
1 Garganey - main lake
4 Wigeon - main lake
93 Teal
104 Gadwall
47 Shoveler
19 House Martin
4 Swift
11 Yellow Wagtail - over S
1 Spotted Flycatcher - wildside
11 Willow Warbler - west and south routes
23 Chiffchaff - west and south routes
2 Kestrel - wildside, sheltered lagoon
2 Kingfisher - wildside, reservoir lagoon
Dragonflies/Damselflies: Common Blue Damselfly, Blue-tailed Damselfly, Common Darter, Willow Emerald Damselfly, Ruddy Darter, Migrant Hawker, Brown Hawker.
Flowering plants: Great Burnet, Salad Burnet, Agrimony, Cut-leaved Crane's-bill, Dove's-foot Crane's-bill, Herb Robert, Self-heal, Common Vetch, Tufted Vetch, Meadow Vetchling, Dog Rose, Common Mallow, Beaked Hawksbeard, Smooth Hawksbeard, Creeping Cinquefoil, White Water Lily, Flowering Rush, Arrowhead, Knapweed, Yellow Bartsia, Meadow-rue, Yellow Loosestrife, Square-stalked St John's Wort, Betony, Cat's Ear, Pond Sedges, Club-rushes, Bristly Ox-tongue, Hawkweed Ox-tongue, Rough Hawkbit, Water Mint. Head to Wildside for the 'tall herb fen meadow' communities which include the purples/pinks of Marsh Woundwort, Purple Loosestrife and Willowherb.
