Black-headed gulls hatching out and lots of Downy Ducklings about
Hope you are enjoying your Bank Holiday Monday!
Between the Ramsar & Sand Martins hides the Black-headed gull chicks are hatching out, can be seen directly in front of Sand Martin hide.
Shelduck ducklings can be seen on wet grassland area and on the water, too.
Also: Tufted ducks, shovelers, greylag goslings with adults, gadwall, oystercatchers
Lapwing Hide:
14 lapwing adults, 6 lapwing chicks of varying age
Canada geese and goslings
Greylag geese and goslings
Scrape Hide:
Pochard, tufted ducks, gadwall
Around the reserve this morning:
Dunnock
Blackbird
Robin
Song thrush
Magpie
Jackdaw
Godfinch and juveniles
Reed warbler
Sedge warbler
Cetti’s warbler
Chaffinch
Green finch
Reed bunting
Swallows
Blue, great and long-tailed tits
Grey wagtail
Pied wagtail
Downy Ducklings: mute swans and cygnets, moorhens and chicks, coots and chicks, mallards and ducklings, greylags and goslings, Canada geese and goslings, shelducks and ducklings
Butterflies: speckled wood, peacock , brimstone, orange tip, red admiral
