Marsh harriers and more

3 September 2021

It's been a busy week with lots of sightings, including two marsh harriers.

It has been very exciting to see our first pink-footed geese of the season! 7 were spotted on the whooper and folly pond along with 250 canada geese. We have also been visited by 1 shelduck and are frequently seeing strong numbers of curlews (60 this week was the highest count). We have had raptor excitement this week with an osprey, marsh harrier and merlin out on the merse, and a marsh harrier over the flood ground area. There are quite a few migrant hawkers around the back pond and in sunny conditions they can be seen darting through the avenues. And an otter was spotted on the back pond one evening!

Photo credit: Alex Hillier

Birds	Mammals	Butterflies	Damselflies & Dragonflies
Mute Swan	Hare	Common Blue	Large Red
Greylag geese	Roe Deer	Red Admiral	Blue-tailed
Canada Geese	Weasel	Meadow Brown	Azure
Shelduck	Stoat	Ringlet	Common Blue
Mallard	Fox	Green-veined White	Four-spotted Chaser
Gadwall		Large White	Banded Demoiselle
Shoveler		Small Copper	Common Darter
Teal		Large Skipper
Pheasant		Small Tortoiseshell
Cormorant
Little Egret
Grey Heron
Buzzard
Kestrel
Peregrine Falcon
Moorhen
Oystercatcher
Lapwing
Common Sandpiper
Redshank
Black-tailed Godwit
Curlew
Snipe
Black-headed Gull
Common Gull
Herring Gull
Great Black Backed Gull
Wood Pigeon
Collared Dove
Great Spotted Woodpecker
Skylark
Sand Martin
House Martin
Barn Swallow
Meadow Pipit
Pied Wagtail
Dunnock
Robin
Song Thrush
Blackbird
Blackcap
Whitethroat
Sedge Warbler
Willow Warbler
Chiffchaff
Wren
Great Tit
Coal Tit
Blue Tit
Long-tailed Tit
Treecreeper
Jackdaw
Rook
Carrion Crow
Raven
Starling
House Sparrow
Tree Sparrow
Chaffinch
Linnet
Goldfinch
Greenfinch
Reed Bunting