Wildlife sightings for 3rd September 2022
Yellow Wagtails migrating overhead, lots of warblers in the shrub blocks and Green Sandpipers out on the mud
Birds
5 Green Sandpiper - main lake, reservoir lagoon
4 Snipe - reservoir lagoon, marsh
4 Wigeon - main lake
84 Shoveler - main lake, reservoir lagoon
1 Buzzard - over SE
2 Swift - over SW
1 Swallow - over S
6 Yellow Wagtail - over S
11 Willow Warbler - west and south routes
19 Chiffchaff - west and south routes
1 Kingfisher - sheltered lagoon
11 Reed Warbler - south route, main lake, reedbed
3 Sedge Warbler - marsh, main lake
Dragonflies/Damselflies: Common Blue 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.
