Wildlife sightings for w/c 10th August 2020
A good selection of passage waders starting to come through as well as a noticeable increase in migrant passerines.
3 Green Sandpiper - wader scrape (11th-15th)
1 Ruff - main lake (12th-15th)
3 Black-tailed Godwit - wader scrape (15th,16th)
1 Whimbrel - main lake then flew off low East (14th)
4 Common Sandpiper - main lake (12th)
1 Greenshank - main lake (11th)
1 Redshank - main lake (12th)
1 Mediterranean Gull - flew over main lake (12th)
1 Kestrel - South route (15th)
2 Peregrine - perched on the hospital (14th)
1 Willow Warbler - South route (11th)
7 Yellow Wagtail - over (16th)
5+ Chiffchaff - South route, sheltered lagoon, Wildside
2+ Common Tern - main lake
10+ Teal - main lake, reservoir lagoon, wader scrape
10+ Shoveler - main lake, reservoir lagoon
Dragonflies: (August) Common Blue Damselfly, Small red-eyed Damselfly, Azure Damselfly, Blue-tailed Damselfly, Emperor Dragonfly, Black-tailed Skimmer, Brown Hawker, Willow Emerald Damselfly, Common Darter.
Butterflies: (August) Common Blue, Comma, Peacock, Red Admiral, Small White, Small Skipper, Large Skipper, Meadow Brown, Gatekeeper, Speckled Wood, Jersey Tiger Moth (see photo below)
Wildflowers and grasshoppers: Tufted Vetch, Common Fleabane, Agrimony, Lady's Bedstraw, Meadow Vetchling, Bird's-foot Trefoil, Yarrow, Purple Loosestrife, Marsh Woundwort, Flowering Rush, The grasslands and scrublands attract Roesel's Bush-cricket, Cone-heads, Meadow Grasshopper, Common Field Grasshopper and Dark Bush Cricket.
Reptiles and amphibians: Slow worm (juveniles) spotted by Pond Zone; 5 Marsh Frogs in the 'Tundra' channel in World Wetlands; lots of Marsh Frogs calling from wildside ponds on sunny days.
