Latest Sightings - Friday 27th July
Another hot and sunny start to the day but there is a chance of rain later in the day.
The Mute Swan family are spending most time on the Back Pond, still with their 6 cygnets which are growing fast! The Mute Swan family from the Flood Ground have disappeared, it's likely that they have moved onto the Lochar Water.
No sign of the Wood Sandpiper over the past couple of days, but there is every chance of more waders dropping in as they are heading south on migration.
A flock of over 30 Curlew are regularly using the Folly Pond at the moment.
Today's high tide is at 13:08am, 8.5m.
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
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