Latest Sightings - Tuesday 7th August
There were three Yellow Wagtails at the Folly Pond yesterday, on migration further south. No sign of them as yet this morning.
A few more Teal have turned up on the Folly Pond as well, and water levels are beginning to pick up after some rain.
Our Osprey camera has been struggling the past few days, probably due to the weather. We have seen a different adult Osprey in the area though. Yellow 08, our breeding male from a few years ago has reappeared on a different nest platform. This is good news as he could be looking to breed in the area next year, which means we could have two local nests in future!
Today's high tide is at 08:45, 7.9m.
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 30
Mute Swan 2 plus 6 cygnets (often on Back Pond)
Grey Heron 1
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
Black-headed Gull 2 juveniles
Avenue Tower
Mallard 30
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
Watch our Ospreys 10am-5pm every day: https://www.wwt.org.uk/wetland-centres/caerlaverock/experience/ospreys/
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