Wildlife sightings for w/c 24th August 2020
Great views of passage waders across the freshly cut/strimmed wader scrape from wader scrape hide.
4 Common Snipe - wader scrape (28th)
3 Common Sandpiper - main lake, wader scrape (27th)
1 Green Sandpiper - wader scrape (28th)
1 Black-tailed Godwit - wader scrape (26th)
1 Wheatear - grazing marsh (27th)
1 Kingfisher - reservoir lagoon (28th)
2 Hobby - over entrance area (26th)
1 Kestrel - grazing marsh (28th)
1 Yellow Wagtail - over low South West (28th)
14 Mandarin - reservoir lagoon, Wildside (28th)
4 Willow Warbler - South route (27th)
30+ House Martin - over main lake (28th)
20+ Sand Martin - over main lake (28th)
1 Common Tern - main lake (27th)
1 Swift - over main lake (28th)
30 Lapwing - wader scrape (27th)
5 Swallow - over South
Dragonflies: (August) Common Blue Damselfly, Small red-eyed Damselfly, Azure Damselfly, Blue-tailed Damselfly, Emperor Dragonfly, Black-tailed Skimmer, Brown Hawker, Willow Emerald Damselfly (photo below), Common Darter.
Butterflies: (August) Common Blue, Comma, Peacock, Red Admiral, Small White, Small Skipper, Large Skipper, Meadow Brown, Gatekeeper, Speckled Wood, Jersey Tiger Moth.
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.
