Latest Sightings - Friday 5th May
We have a few new additions to the reserve this morning! Our giant LEGO® Brick animals have arrived and can now be seen across the site...
Summer migrants are also arriving thick and fast. Sedge Warblers can be heard from all of the hedgerows and Avenues. Garden Warbler, Chiffchaff and Blackcap can also be seen and heard in the Avenues.
House Martins have been collecting mud from the Folly Pond and can be seen building nests at the top of the Farmhouse Tower!
Todays high tide is at 8:54, 7.9m
Around the reserve today:
Barnacle Geese: 10
Wildflowers
Blackthorn
Ramsons
Red Campion
Cuckoo Flower
Bluebells
Primrose
Insects
Peacock Butterfly
Early Bumblebee
Tree Bumblebee
Common Carder Bee
Beefly
Mammals
Brown Hare
Roe Deer
Fox
Badger
Whooper Pond
Whooper Swan 2
Canada Goose 2
Mallard 17
Wigeon 1
Oystercatcher 2
Folly Pond
Teal 5
Mallard 10
Gadwall 4
Oystercatcher 2
Shelduck 6
Moorhen 1
Ruff 1
Redshank 30
Black-tailed Godwit 40
Teal Pond
Little Grebe 2 nesting
Mute Swan 2
Avenue Tower
Wheatear 3
Gadwall 4
Mute Swan 2 nesting
Lapwing 3
Black-headed Gull 10
Oystercatcher 2
Shelduck 6
Longhorn Cattle 3
Saltcot Merse Observatory
Peregrine
Sparrowhawk
Kestrel
Osprey
Buzzard
Skylarks singing
Barnacle Geese
Hebridean Sheep 10
Avenues & Feeders
(notable species)
Reed Bunting
Yellowhammer
Sparrowhawk
Coal Tit
Long-tailed Tit
Goldcrest
Goldfinch
Greenfinch
Linnet
House Sparrow
Tree Sparrow
Treecreeper
Great-spotted Woodpecker
Chiffchaff
Willow Warbler
Blackcap
Garden Warbler
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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
