Wildlife sightings for 21st September 2020
2 Kingfisher showing very well across the site this morning and first Pintail of the Autumn.
2 Common Sandpiper - main lake
1 Pintail - wader scrape
5+ Meadow Pipit - over SW/S
1 Grey Wagtail - World Wetlands
2 Kingfisher - main lake, wader scrape, World Wetlands, wildside
15+ Chiffchaff - South route, sheltered lagoon, entrance area
Dragonflies: (early September) Common Blue Damselfly, Emperor Dragonfly, Willow Emerald Damselfly, Common Darter, Ruddy Darter, Southern Hawker, Migrant Hawker (photo below)
Wildflowers and grasshoppers: (September) Tufted Vetch, Common Fleabane, Lady's Bedstraw, Meadow Vetchling, Bird's-foot Trefoil, Yarrow, Purple Loosestrife, Marsh Woundwort, Flowering Rush, Field Scabious, Devil's-bit Scabious. The grasslands and scrublands attract Roesel's Bush-cricket, Cone-heads, Meadow Grasshopper, Common Field Grasshopper and Dark Bush Cricket.
Reptiles: (5th September survey) Slow worms (13 juveniles, 31 female, 6 male); 12 Grass snakes; 2 Common Lizard.
