Green Sandpiper & Black-tailed Godwits - Wader passage has begun!
It seems Autumn wader passage has begun already with the first Black-tailed Godwits on the Folly Pond and a Green Sandpiper on the Whooper Pond first thing this morning. It flew, so could be on the Folly Pond or Flood Ground now.
Plenty of butterflies out this week with very good numbers of Painted Lady and Common Blue in the Meadow and alongside the Lochar Water.
Swallow chicks are in the Teal Pond Hide and Picnic Area now.
There is a reduced service in the coffee shop today, we apologise for the inconvenience.
High Tide: 10:15, 8.0m
Opening times:
10am - 5pm every day except Christmas Day
Around the reserve:
Wildflowers
Cuckoo Flower
Lesser Trefoil
Yellow Rattle
Red Campion
Greater Stitchwort
Dog Rose
Guelder Rose
Bugle
Creeping Buttercup
Meadow Buttercup
Woody Nightshade
Northern Marsh Orchid
Common Spotted Orchid
Twayblade Orchid
Bird's-foot Trefoil
Insects
Peacock Butterfly
Red Admiral Butterfly
Orange-tip Butterfly
Small Tortoiseshell Butterfly
Green-veined White Butterfly
Large White Butterfly
Small White Butterfly
Common Blue Butterfly
Painted Lady Butterfly
Hawthorn Shieldbug
Buff tailed Bumblebee
White tailed Bumblebee
7-spot Ladybird
11-spot Ladybird
Large Red Damselfly
Blue-tailed Damselfly
Azure Damselfly
Common Blue Damselfly
Four-spotted Chaser Dragonfly
Mammals
Badger
Fox
Otter
Brown Hare
Mole
Wood Mouse
Bank Vole
Field Vole
Weasel
Stoat
Pipistrelle Bat
Whooper Pond
Mallard 8
Mute Swan 2
Oystercatcher 2
Canada Goose 1
Green Sandpiper 1
Folly Pond
Mallard 9 with 9 ducklings
Shoveler 1
Teal 10
Wigeon 1
Moorhen 1
Black-tailed Godwit 2
Oystercatcher 1 nesting
Teal Pond
Mallard 7
Moorhen 1
Swallows - chicks in nest in hide
Avenue Tower
Mallard
Wigeon
Gadwall
Shelduck
Grey Heron
Mute Swan with cygnets
Black-headed Gulls with chicks
Longhorn Cattle 2
Saltcot Merse Observatory
Marsh Harrier
Buzzard
Mute Swan
Shelduck
Lapwing
Oystercatcher
Curlew
Little Egret
Linnet
Hebridean Sheep 12
Avenues & Feeders
(notable species)
Reed Warbler
Willow Warbler
Chiffchaff
Sedge Warbler
Blackcap
Garden Warbler
Reed Bunting
Sparrowhawk
Great Tit
Blue Tit
Robin
Blackbird
Chaffinch
Long-tailed Tit
Goldfinch
Greenfinch
House Sparrow
Tree Sparrow
Song Thrush
Great-spotted Woodpecker
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