Wildlife sightings for 4th July 2021
Common Sandpiper on the wader scrape.
1 Common Sandpiper - wader scrape
2 Oystercatcher - main lake
2 Hobby - over grazing marsh
2 Lapwing chicks - grazing marsh
1 Kestrel - over grazing marsh
3 Little Egret - wader scrape
11 Teal - wader scrape, main lake
3 Shoveler - wader scrape
1 Common Tern - sheltered lagoon
Flowering plants: Beaked Hawksbeard, Bristly Ox-tongue, Rough Hawkbit, Viper's Bugloss, Deptford Pink, Meadow Vetchling, Grass Vetchling, Tufted Vetch, Marsh Marigold, Forget-me-not, Bee Orchid, Southern Marsh Orchid, Pyramidal Orchid, Dove's-foot Crane's-bill, Ragged Robin, Daisy, Cut-leaved Crane's-bill, Red Campion, White Campion, Green Alkanet, Common Vetch, Herb Robert, Ox-eye Daisy, Creeping Buttercup, Celery-leaved Buttercup, Jack-by-the-hedge, Bird's-foot Trefoil, Yellow Rattle, Herb Bennett, Common Mallow, Ragwort, Yellow Iris, Cut-leaved Crane's-bill, Round-leaved Crane's-bill, White Water-lily, Meadow Rue, Hemlock Water-dropwort, Amphibious Bistort, Greater and Lesser Pond Sedge, Pendulous Sedge, Cyperus Sedge, Glaucous Sedge, False Fox Sedge, Tussock Sedge, Common Spike-rush, Hard Rush, Soft Rush, Square-stalked St.John's Wort, Betony, Meadow Sweet, Self-heal, Marsh Woundwort, Yellow Loosestrife, Purple Loosestrife, Flowering Rush.
Butterflies: (1st July survey) Comma, Brimstone, Red Admiral, Large White, Small White, Speckled Wood, Meadow Brown, Gatekeeper, Marbled White.
Dragonflies: (1st July survey) Azure Damselfly, Hairy Dragonfly, Emperor Dragonfly, Norfolk Hawker, Blue-tailed Damselfly, Common Blue Damselfly, Black-tailed Skimmer.
