Wildlife sightings for w/c 3rd August 2020
Stonechat and Green Sandpiper on the scrape, Dunlin on main lake and Common Sandpiper on reservoir lagoon
1 Green Sandpiper - scrape
1 Dunlin - main lake
1 Common Sandpiper - reservoir lagoon
2 Willow Warbler - wildside (7th)
6 Chiffchaff - south route, sheltered lagoon, wildside
1 Stonechat - scrape
1 Whitethroat - entrance lake
1 Garden Warbler - sheltered lagoon
1 Kingfisher - reservoir lagoon
1 Hobby
1 Marsh Harrier (female) - landed on marsh (5th)
5 Common Tern - main lake (including 2 that flew over S)
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.
