Sightings 03/07/2017
A Spotted Flycatcher was showing well again this morning, sitting on the fence line by the entrance to the summer walk half way down the avenue.
A couple of Common Sandpipers are dotted around the reserve, with two on the Whooper Pond and one on the Folly. This species has already started it's return migration from the breeding grounds and we have had a number of birds passing through in the last week. It is generally the females that return first, leaving the males to do all the hard work and look after the chicks.
Teal numbers have increased slightly again with around 50 visible from the avenue tower this morning along with 40 Lapwing. Elsewhere Swallows and House Martins are still feeding young, our family of Mute Swans with 4 cygnets seem to be doing well also.
The Otter was last seen on Friday and showed extremely well on most days last week, so always worth keeping an eye out for this.
Todays high tide is at 8:35, 7.7m
Around the reserve today:
Wildflowers
Elder flower
Guelder Rose
Dog Rose
Red Campion
Cuckoo Flower
Herb Robert
Northern March Orchids
Common Spotted Orchid
Lesser Trefoil
Common Vetch
Tufted Vetch
Forget-me-not
Mousear
Red Clover
White Clover
Yellow Rattle
Insects
Peacock Butterfly
Large White Butterfly
Green-veined White Butterfly
Small Tortoiseshell
Large Red Damselfly
Common Blue Damselfly
Four Spotted Chaser Dragonfly
Common Darter Dragonfly
Early Bumblebee
Tree Bumblebee
Common Carder Bumblebee
Red-tailed Bumblebee
Beefly
Drinker Moth caterpillar
Mammals
Brown Hare
Weasel
Roe Deer
Fox
Badger
Otter
Soprano Pipistrelle Bat - evening
Wood Mouse
Whooper Pond
Whooper Swan 1
Mute Swan 2 plus 4 cygnets
Mallard 29
Tufted Duck 1
Canada Goose 1
Folly Pond
Mallard 8
Moorhen 2 & 2 chicks
Shelduck 6
Oystercatcher 2
Common Sandpiper 1
House Martins nesting on Farmhouse Tower
Teal Pond
Swallows - with 4 chicks on the left hand side and above entrance - enter slowly and quietly
Oystercatcher 2
Moorhen 2
Mallard 3 - with ducklings
Avenue Tower
Black-headed Gull 10 - nesting & with chicks
Shelduck 6
Greylag Goose 1
Teal 50
Brown Hare 5
Roe Deer 2
Longhorn Cattle 3
Saltcot Merse Observatory
Peregrine
Kestrel
Osprey
Buzzard
Skylarks singing
Hebridean Sheep 10
Avenues & Feeders
(notable species)
Reed Bunting
Sparrowhawk
Coal Tit
Long-tailed Tit
Goldfinch
Greenfinch
Linnet
House Sparrow
Tree Sparrow
Treecreeper
Great-spotted Woodpecker
Chiffchaff
Willow Warbler
Sedge Warbler
Blackcap
Garden Warbler
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