Latest Sightings - Wednesday 8th August - passage migration & Green Sandpipers
A really interesting morning on the reserve, with passage migration in full swing!
Two Green Sandpipers are on the Flood Ground in the small pools, visible from the Avenue Tower. The Hawthorn tree beneath the Avenue Tower is stuffed full of migrating songbirds. Willow Warbler, Blackcap, Whitethroat, Sedge Warbler, Reed Bunting and Tree Sparrows are all in there at the moment!
Canada Geese and Greylag Geese are now massing on the merse.
A single Osprey was sitting on the mud from Saltcot Merse Observatory first thing today.
Today's high tide is at 10:01, 8.2m.
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
Green Sandpiper 2
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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