Reserve Update Tuesday 14th August - Hen Harrier again
The male Hen Harrier was back around Avenue Tower this morning with views of it hunting and catching prey over the Merse. It had also been seen on Sunday so seems to be a pretty regular feature at the mo. The buzzard was once again on it's perch at the osprey platform and a Raven was present in Low Middle field "kronking" away. It is starting to sound a bit more like Autumn with flocks of Canada and Greylag Geese building around the Reserve. Mallard numbers have also shot up on Folly Pond.
Today's high tide is at 15:20, 9.7m.
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
Folly Pond
Mallard 120
Teal 12
Wigeon 2
Lapwing 10
Gadwall 4
Black-tailed Godwit 2
Moorhen 1
Grey Heron 1
Teal Pond
Mallard 6
Moorhen 3
Mute Swan 2 plus 6 cygnets (often on Back Pond)
Avenue Tower
Mallard 7
Greylag Geese 40
Canada Geese 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
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