Accessibility during autumn and winter

During the colder months, the reserve can be wet and muddy so waterproof footwear is recommended. Those with limited mobility or using push wheelchairs may find traversing the Avenue and Saltcot Loaning unsuitable. Please call us on 01387 770200 for more info.

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Latest Sightings 23/07/18- Wood Sandpiper

There is a Wood Sandpiper on the Folly Pond, with good views from the tower and Folly Pond Hide. There is also a Black-tailed Godwit, a couple of Snipe and a flock of Lapwing on the Folly Pond.

Yesterday a Little Ringed Plover was on the Flood Ground, so there is a chance that it may still be around somewhere today.

Both of our Osprey chicks took their first proper flight yesterday too! They are still returning to the nest to feed and rest.

Today's high tide is at 9:55am, 7.7m.

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

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
Wood Sandpiper 1
Black-tailed Godwit 1
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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