2 Bittern showing well plus Knot, Jack Snipe and Water Pipit
2 Bittern showing well this morning on the main lake North shore.
2 Bittern - main lake North shore (best viewed from the observatory/Dulverton hide)
1 Knot - main lake
2 Jack Snipe - marsh
5 Snipe - marsh
1 Water Pipit - marsh
1 Pintail - reservoir lagoon
2 Stonechat - grazing marsh
4 Fieldfare - South route
3 Redwing - wildside
1 Peregrine - hunting over the entrance area
7 Meadow Pipit - grazing marsh (5) and flew over heading South west (2)
1 Skylark - flew over heading South
October bird highlights: Teal(200+), Pintail, Pochard(52), Jack Snipe, Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, Dunlin, Redshank, Bittern, Great White Egret, Water Rail, Hobby, Little Egret, Yellow-legged Gull, Stonechat, Garden Warbler, Siskin, Skylark, Linnet, Lesser Redpoll.
Invertebrates: (late September) Common Darter (see photo below), Willow Emerald Damselfly, Migrant Hawker, Southern Hawker, Common Blue Damselfly, Ruddy Darter, Red Admiral, Speckled Wood, Small White, Common Carder Bee, Common Furrow Bee, Honey Bee, Buff-tailed Bumblebee, Beewolf, Red-legged Shieldbug, Common Sheetweb Spider, Common Stretch Spider, Common Wolf Spider, Wasp Spider.
Fungus: (August 30th Survey) Meadow Puffball (see photo below on left), Grey Puffball (see photo below on right), Giant Puffball, Tar-spot Fungus, Shaggy Parasol, Lumpy Bracket, Pancake Crust, Bleached Brittlegill, Candelsnuff Fungus, Brown Birch Bolete, Oak Curtain Crust, Blushing Bracket, Oak Mazegill, Brown Rollrim, Blushing Milkcap.
