Sunday May 14th
Dry and sunny today. Two Avocets currently on The Folly Pond along with a single Common Sandpiper. The Oystercatchers on the Flood Ground have three chicks, all doing well...! Mute Swans are still sitting at two nests and three Barnacle Geese in The Lochar Field are now rather unseasonal. Two Whooper Swans also remain, on The Whooper Pond
Todays high tide is at 15:13, 8.6m
Around the reserve today:
Barnacle Geese: 3
Wildflowers
Hawthorn
Ramsons
Red Campion
Cuckoo Flower
Bluebells
Primrose
Insects
Peacock Butterfly
Large White Butterfly
Orange Tip Butterfly
Large Red Damselfly
Early Bumblebee
Tree Bumblebee
Common Carder Bee
Beefly
Drinker Moth caterpillar
Common Blue Damselfly
Mammals
Brown Hare
Weasel
Roe Deer
Fox
Badger
Otter
Soprano Pipistrelle Bat - evening
Whooper Pond
Whooper Swan 2
Mute Swan 1
Mallard 23
Oystercatcher 2
Folly Pond
Mallard 18
Moorhen 2 + 2 chicks
Lapwing 3
Avocet 2
Black-headed Gull 1
Shelduck 6
Teal Pond
Little Grebe 2 - nesting
Mute Swan 2 - nesting
Moorhen 2
Mallard 2
Swallows - nest building in the hide - enter slowly and quietly
Oystercatcher 1 - possibly nesting on the raft
Avenue Tower
Barnacle Geese 2
Mute Swan 2 nesting
Gadwall 4
Teal 1
Lapwing 8 - nesting
Black-headed Gull 8 - nesting
Oystercatcher 2 + 3 chicks
Shelduck 6
Wheatear 2
Longhorn Cattle 3
Saltcot Merse Observatory
Peregrine
Kestrel
Osprey
Buzzard
Skylarks singing
Barnacle Geese
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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Osprey Webcam
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