Wildlife sightings for 22nd September 2020
Redpoll and Siskin spotted in wildside this morning.
1 Common Sandpiper - wader scrape
2 Snipe - wader scrape
1 Water Rail - calling from the main reedbeds
1 Kingfisher - wildside
20+ Meadow Pipit - flying West with some dropping onto the reserve
2 Redpoll - wildside
16 Siskin - sheltered lagoon
2 Stonechat - grazing marsh
1 Peregrine - hunting over the main lake
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.
