Latest Sightings - Saturday 1st September
So much for the sun, it's an overcast and drizzly morning on the reserve.
The Summer Walk is now closed for the winter.
Plenty of ducks around the site now, many of them still in eclipse plumage. There has been an increase in Canada and Greylag Goose numbers in the past few weeks. Have a good look through the geese, as there are at least four hybrid Canada X Greylags out there, and also a leucistic Greylag Goose which has very pale plumage but retains the orange bill and legs.
Today's high tide is at 16:36, 8.5m
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 64
Gadwall 1 male
Little Grebe 1
Moorhen 1
Folly Pond
Mallard 11
Teal 172
Wigeon 4
Shoveler 7
Black-tailed Godwit 6
Canada Geese 213
Greylag Geese 1
Canada X Greylag hybrid 2
Moorhen 1
Teal Pond
Mallard 17
Grey Heron 1
Moorhen 1
Mute Swan 2 plus 6 cygnets (often on Back Pond)
Avenue Tower
Mallard 90
Mute Swan 2
Shoveler 4
Gadwall 2
Teal 5
Wigeon 8
Kestrel 1
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
Lesser Whitethroat
Webcam
Unfortunately we have been experiencing problems with our Osprey camera this year. We hope to fix the problems before next summer. At the moment, the two Osprey chicks are still around the area but they will be heading south soon.
We aim to have Swan Cam and Badger Cam up and running soon.
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