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 - Saturday 11th August - Green Sandpipers & Hen Harrier

Two Green Sandpipers in the Flood Ground again this morning. Viewed from the Avenue Tower. Also a male Hen Harrier flying over.

Still good birding in the Hawthorn below the Avenue Tower. Whitethroat, Willow Warbler, Lesser Whitethroat, Whinchat & Treecreeper today!

Green Sandpipers in the Flood Ground.

Today's high tide is at 13:09, 9.5m.

Around the reserve:

Wildflowers
Gorse
Red Campion
Meadowsweet
Yellow Rattle
Buttercup
Bird's Foot Trefoil
Lesser Trefoil
White Clover
Red Clover
Valerian
Creeping Thistle
Meadow Vetchling
Bush Vetch
Tufted Vetch
Purple Loosetstrife

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
Emperor Dragonfly

Whooper Pond
Mallard 30
Mute Swan 2 plus 6 cygnets (often on Back Pond)

Folly Pond
Mallard 20
Teal 4
Snipe 1
Lapwing 30
Curlew 5
Moorhen 1
Grey Heron 1

Teal Pond
Grey Heron 1
Mallard 24
Moorhen 2

Avenue Tower
Mallard 7
Grey Heron 1
Teal 2
Green Sandpiper 2
Hen Harrier 1 male

Longhorn Cattle 2

Saltcot Merse Observatory
Kestrel
Osprey
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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joe.bilous@wwt.org.uk

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