Recent sightings

Sightings from the 22nd July have included

Main Lake - 3 shelducks, 1 little grebes, 30 tufted ducks, 3 wigeon ducks, 9 greylags, 190 mallards, 1 kingfisher.

Estuary - 140 curlews, 150 black headed gulls, 2 common gulls, 1 common tern, 1 knot, 70 oystercatchers

2 peregrines flying over Saline Lagoon

Freshwater Lagoon - 2 arctic terns, 1 kingfisher, 1 heron, 30 black headed gulls, 6 common terns. On the limestone lake - 3 little grebes with 5 young,

Sightings from Brent Hide - 2 curlews, 2 great crested grebes

Mammals spotted  -  otters

Plants - common spotted orchid, pyramidal orchid

Small Birds included sparrows, dunnocks, coal, great and blue tits, goldcrests, goldfinches, wrens, black birds and mistle thrush

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