Out on the reserve
After a wet start many of the birds were sheltering from the rain but come opening time activity resumed with lots of chicks and ducklings feeding out on the pools. Today was a great day for insects with lots of dragonflies and bees including:
Blue-tailed damselflies
Azure damselflies
Black-tailed skimmers
Tree bumblebee
Buff-tailed bumblebee
Lady Fen
Shelduck + ducklings
Lapwing + chicks
Redshank + chicks
Moorhen + chicks
Little egrets
Main Observatory
Little ringed plovers
March harrier
Mallard + ducklings
Wigeon
Black-tailed godwits
Common terns x 2
Lapwing + chicks
Avocets + 2 chicks
Oystercatchers
Redshank
Whooper swans
House martins
Swallows
Nelson-lyle hide
Coot + chicks
Mute swans + cygnets
Shoveler
Little egret 24+
Grey Heron 2
Black-tailed godwits 8
Friends Hide
Avocets + 6 chicks
Tufted duck
Gadwall
Snipe
Linnet
Sedge warbler
Reed warbler
Mute swan on nest beside path to Allport hide
Reedbed hide
Sedge warbler
Reed warbler
Marsh harrier
Hobby
