Plenty of Thrush & Starling movement over the reserve
Linnets and Stonechats adding variety to our grazing marsh
2 Pintail - reservoir lagoon
2 Water Rail - main reedbeds
5 Snipe - grazing marsh, wader scrape
5 Fieldfare - flew over SE
47 Redwing - flew over South, South West
250+ Starling - flew over West with a few dropping onto the grazing marsh
2 Stonechat - grazing marsh
5 Linnet - dropped onto grazing marsh
October bird highlights: Teal(200+), Pintail, Pochard(52), Jack Snipe, Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, Dunlin, Redshank, Great White Egret, Water Rail, Hobby, Little Egret, Yellow-legged Gull, Stonechat, Garden Warbler, Siskin, Skylark.
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.
Moths: (September) Box Tree (dark form), Gold Spot, Tree-lichen Beauty, White-point, Jersey Tiger, Rush Veneer, Pale Mottled Willow, Diamond-back, Dark sword-grass, Rusty Dot Pearl, Silver Y, The Gem, Convolvulus Hawk-moth, Clifden Nonpareil (see photo below), The Delicate.
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.
