Latest Sightings - 5th August - Bankend Bridge update
We have been told that the contractors working on the B725 at Bankend are behind schedule. The bridge is open this weekend, but will be CLOSED from Monday 7th until Friday 11th, day and night. Please use the diversion via Dumfries.
It's a bright & sunny Saturday morning on the reserve. If you are coming, please bring boots or wellies as the Avenues are still quite wet from the rain last week.
Todays high tide is at 11:52, 8.1m
Around the reserve today:
Wildflowers
Elder flower
Dog Rose
Red Campion
Herb Robert
Common Vetch
Tufted Vetch
Forget-me-not
Mousear
Red Clover
Yellow Rattle
Insects
Peacock Butterfly
Large White Butterfly
Meadow Brown Butterfly
Ringlet Butterfly
Common Blue Butterfly
Small Tortoiseshell
Large Red Damselfly
Common Blue Damselfly
Four Spotted Chaser Dragonfly
Common Darter Dragonfly
Early Bumblebee
Tree Bumblebee
Common Carder Bumblebee
Red-tailed Bumblebee
Beefly
Drinker Moth caterpillar
Mammals
Brown Hare
Weasel - family with 4 young
Roe Deer - with fawns
Fox
Badger
Otter
Soprano Pipistrelle Bat - evening
Wood Mouse
Whooper Pond
Whooper Swan 1
Mallard 19
Moorhen 2
Folly Pond
Mallard 25 - with ducklings
Moorhen 4
Lapwing 50+
House Martins - 39 nests on Farmhouse Tower (youngsters now flying)
Teal Pond
Swallows nesting in the hide
Grey Heron 1
Moorhen 2
Mallard 9
Avenue Tower
Kestrel 2
Mallard 20
Curlew 8
Teal 56
Mute Swan 2
Coot 1
Brown Hare 1
Roe Deer 2
Saltcot Merse Observatory
Peregrine
Kestrel
Osprey
Buzzard
Swallows nesting
Skylarks still singing occasionally
Linnets - flocks of up to 60
Canada Geese 100+
Greylag Geese 2
Hebridean Sheep 10
Longhorn Cattle 3
Avenues & Feeders
(notable species)
Reed Bunting
Sparrowhawk
Coal Tit
Long-tailed Tit
Goldfinch
Greenfinch
Linnet
House Sparrow
Tree Sparrow
Treecreeper
Great-spotted Woodpecker
Chiffchaff
Willow Warbler
Sedge Warbler
Blackcap
Garden Warbler
Twitter & Facebook
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Osprey Webcam
See live footage of our local Osprey nest here: http://www.wwt.org.uk/wetland-centres/caerlaverock/experience/ospreys/
The camera is online between 10am and 5pm daily.
joe.bilous@wwt.org.uk
