Wildlife Sightings for 9th April 2025
House Martins, Swallow, Garden Warbler, Yellow Wagtail and Willow Warbler recorded today
3 Little Ringed Plover - wader scrape
2 Oystercatcher - main lake
1 Redshank - main lake
1 Green Sandpiper - marsh
6 Snipe - marsh, main lake, reservoir lagoon
2 Yellow Wagtail - wader scrape
2 House Martin - over main lake
1 Swallow - over main lake
3 Sedge Warbler - main reedbed, reservoir lagoon, main lake
4 Reed Warbler - main reedbed, main lake
1 Garden Warbler - reservoir lagoon (see photo)
2 Willow Warbler - wildside, reservoir lagoon
10 Blackcap - reservoir lagoon, sheltered lagoon, wildside, south route
11 Chiffchaff - site count
1 Buzzard - in wildside, before being mobbed off by crows
1 Kestrel - south route
The late-March Water Rail survey found 10 calling birds across the reserve- reedbed, reservoir lagoon, main lake, sheltered lagoon and wildside.
Dunnock, Wren, Robin, Cetti's Warbler, Chiffchaff, Blackcap, Song Thrush, Blackbird, Greenfinch, Goldfinch, Great Tit and Reed Bunting are all singing across the reserve from every patch of scrub and hedgerow.
Butterflies and other insects (end of March)- Early Bumblebee, White-tailed Bumblebee, Honey Bee, Red-tailed Bumblebee, Tree Bumblebee, Green Hairstreak, Peacock, Red Admiral, Brimstone, Small White, Small Tortoiseshell, Comma, Speckled Wood, Bee-fly, Hoverfly sp.
