Latest Sightings - Saturday 28th July

The rain has finally arrived, although it is needed it's still a shame.

Hopefully this will top some of the ponds up and freshen up the vegetation a bit.

A Snipe was feeding in the Paddock ponds again this morning, it's always worth a slow walk through this area in case you flush one up!

Today's high tide is at 13:42, 8.7m.

Around the reserve:

Wildflowers
Gorse
Red Campion
Herb Robert
Dog Rose
Meadowsweet
Yellow Rattle
Buttercup
Bird's Foot Trefoil
Lesser Trefoil
White Clover
Red Clover
Valerian

Insects
Peacock Butterfly
Green-veined White Butterfly
Ringlet Butterfly
Meadow Brown Butterfly
Common Blue Butterfly
Red Admiral Butterfly
Tree Bumblebee
Buff-tailed Bumblebee
Common Carder Bumblebee
White-tailed Bunblebee
Emerald Damselfly
Large Red Damselfly
Four-spot Chaser Dragonfly
Common Blue Damselfly
Azure Damselfly
Blue-tailed Damselfly
Common Darter Dragonfly

Whooper Pond
Mallard 32
Mute Swan 2 plus 6 cygnets (often on Back Pond)
Grey Heron 1
Snipe 2
Black-headed Gull 1 juvenile

Folly Pond
Mallard 20
Snipe 1
Lapwing 30
Moorhen 1
Grey Heron 1

Teal Pond
Grey Heron 1
Mallard 24
Moorhen 2
Black-headed Gull 2 juveniles

Avenue Tower
Mallard 15
Grey Heron 1
Lapwing 1
Longhorn Cattle 2

Saltcot Merse Observatory
Kestrel
Buzzard 
Mute Swan
Shelduck
Mallard
Lapwing
Oystercatcher
Curlew
Little Egret
Great Black-backed Gull
Black-headed Gull
Common Gull
Herring Gull
Hebridean Sheep 9

Avenues & Feeders
(notable species)
Reed Bunting
Sparrowhawk
Coal Tit
Long-tailed Tit
Goldfinch
Greenfinch
House Sparrow
Tree Sparrow
Treecreeper
Great-spotted Woodpecker
Goldcrest
Chiffchaff
Willow Warbler
Sedge Warbler
Blackcap

Webcam

Watch our Ospreys 10am-5pm every day: https://www.wwt.org.uk/wetland-centres/caerlaverock/experience/ospreys/

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joe.bilous@wwt.org.uk

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