Wildlife sightings for 4th September 2022
Green and Common Sandpipers, increasing duck numbers and lots of warblers around the reserve today.
Birds
5 Green Sandpiper - main lake, reservoir lagoon
1 Common Sandpiper - main lake
7 Snipe - reservoir lagoon, marsh, main lake
7 Wigeon - reservoir lagoon, sheltered lagoon
1 Swift - over main lake
1 Kingfisher - reservoir lagoon
Willow Warbler, Chiffchaff and Blackcap around the reserve, great views around the South Route feeders
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.
