Bug Hunting
This week has all been about the emergence of insects so bug hunters big and small please come and see what you can discover there is no upper age limit to bug hunting or pond dipping! To add to our butterfly list of last week we have had red admirals and walls (which are not common on the reserve). Hoverflies, green dock beetles, click beetles, crane flies, scorpionflies and day-flying moths have all been spotted along the meadow walk to join the bumblebees flying around the reserve. In the raised pond are great diving beetles, water boatmen, whirligig beetles, pond skaters and much more.
Photo credit: Alex Hillier
Species around the Reserve
Mute Swan
Greylag geese
Canada Geese
Shelduck
Mallard
Gadwall
Shoveler
Wigeon
Teal
Goosander
Pheasant
Cormorant
Little Egret
Grey Heron
Buzzard
Kestrel
Peregrine Falcon
Moorhen
Oystercatcher
Lapwing
Common Sandpiper
Redshank
Black-tailed Godwit
Curlew
Snipe
Black-headed Gull
Common Gull
Herring Gull
Great Black Backed Gull
Wood Pigeon
Collared Dove
Great Spotted Woodpecker
Skylark
Sand Martin
House Martin
Barn Swallow
Meadow Pipit
Pied Wagtail
Dunnock
Robin
Wheatear
Song Thrush
Blackbird
Blackcap
Whitethroat
Sedge Warbler
Willow Warbler
Chiffchaff
Wren
Great Tit
Coal Tit
Blue Tit
Long-tailed Tit
Treecreeper
Jackdaw
Rook
Carrion Crow
Raven
Starling
House Sparrow
Tree Sparrow
Chaffinch
Linnet
Lessed Redpoll
Goldfinch
Greenfinch
Reed Bunting
Hare
Roe Deer
Weasel
Stoat
Fox
