Wildlife sightings for w/c 17th August 2020
Green and Common Sandpipers, Oystercatcher and a selection of passerine migrants to start the week.
1 Oystercatcher - main lake (18th)
1 Black-tailed Godwit - wader scrape (21st)
2 Green Sandpiper - wader scrape (18th)
3 Common Sandpiper - main lake (18th)
2 Common Snipe - wader scrape (19th)
1 Yellow Wagtail - grazing marsh (19th)
2 Little Egret - wader scrape (18th)
1 Hobby - over main lake (20th)
1 Kestrel - over the wader scrape (18th)
1 Lesser Whitethroat - entrance area (18th)
3 Willow Warbler - entrance area (18th)
15+ Chiffchaff - South route, sheltered lagoon, Wildside, World Wetlands (19th)
2+ Common Tern - main lake (19th)
1 Yellow-legged Gull (2cy) - main lake (21st)
30+ Teal - main lake, reservoir lagoon, wader scrape (18th)
10+ Shoveler - main lake, reservoir lagoon (18th)
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.
