Reserve Update Tuesday 22nd May
Yesterday saw the appearance of five Long-tailed Tit chicks in the Wildlife garden. The adults can still be heard calling in the undergrowth this morning so the family is probably hanging around still. Temminck's Stint dropped into Folly Pond for the afternoon on Saturday but has not been seen since. The House Martins continue with the renovation works on their nests and are lovely to watch from the Farmhouse Tower or Folly Pond hide.
Today's high tide is at 19:07, 8.0m.
Around the reserve:
Wildflowers
Primrose
Lesser Celandine
Cuckoo Flower
Bluebell
Blackthorn
Gorse
Wild Garlic
Red Campion
Dog Violet
Herb Robert
Insects
Peacock Butterfly
Orange Tip Butterfly
Tree Bumblebee
Buff-tailed Bumblebee
Common Carder Bumblebee
White-tailed Bunblebee
Emerald Damselfly
Large Red Damselfly
Four-spot Chaser Dragonfly
Whooper Pond
Mallard 10
Folly Pond
Mallard 20
Shoveler 2
Oystercatcher 2 - on nest with 3 eggs
Teal Pond
Mute Swan 2 - on nest
Moorhen 1
Avenue Tower
Black-headed Gull 11
Mute Swan 2
Mallard 14
Oystercatcher 2
Lapwing 6 +1 chick
Saltcot Merse Observatory
Kestrel
Buzzard
Mute Swan
Shelduck
Red-breasted Merganser
Mallard
Dunlin
Knot
Lapwing
Oystercatcher
Curlew
Little Egret
Great Black-backed Gull
Black-headed Gull
Common Gull
Herring Gull
Hebridean Sheep 9
Longhorn Cattle 2
Avenues & Feeders
(notable species)
Reed Bunting
Sparrowhawk
Coal Tit
Long-tailed Tit
Goldfinch
Greenfinch
Linnet
House Sparrow
Tree Sparrow
Treecreeper
Great-spotted Woodpecker
Goldcrest
Chiffchaff
Willow Warbler
Sedge Warbler
Blackcap
Garden Warbler
Webcam
The osprey nest camera is live on our website, 10am - 5pm!
https://www.wwt.org.uk/wetland-centres/caerlaverock/experience/ospreys/
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