Wildlife sightings for 31st August 2022
Green and Common Sandpipers, Wheatear and Spotted Flycatchers
Birds
1 Water Rail - main lake SE shore
4 Green Sandpiper - main lake, wader scrape
3 Common Sandpiper - main lake, reservoir lagoon
2 Snipe - wader scrape
1 Redshank - main lake
30 House Martins
3 Swift
1 Wheatear - marsh
2 Spotted Flycatcher - south route bird feeders area p.m.
Increasing numbers of duck, especially Teal and Pochard.
Butterflies: Small White, Large White, Green-veined White, Peacock, Holly Blue, Common Blue, Speckled Wood, Meadow Brown, Red Admiral, Small Skipper, Essex Skipper, Large Skipper, Gatekeeper.
Dragonflies/Damselflies: Lesser Emperor, Southern Hawker, Black-Tailed Skimmer, Emperor, Common Blue Damselfly, Blue-tailed Damselfly, Banded Demoiselle, Large Red Damselfly, Common Darter, Willow Emerald Damselfly, Ruddy Darter, Migrant Hawker (photo below)..
Other insects: Alder Leaf Beetle, Willow Leaf Beetle, Poplar Leaf Beetle, Wasp Beetle, Yellow Longhorn Beetle, Thick-Legged Flower Beetle, Buff-tailed Bumblebee, Ruby-Tailed Wasp, Red-headed Cardinal Beetle, Cinnabar Moth, Yellow Underwing, Mother Shipton, Yellow-barred Longhorn, Silver Y Moth, Hummingbird Hawk-moth, Mint Moth, Jersey Tiger, Red Underwing, Six Spot Burnet, Marbled Beauty.
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.
