Latest Sightings - Friday 25th May
A dry but breezy day today. Plenty of activity in the Peter Scott Trail, with our colony of Tree Sparrows using 5 of the nest boxes around the feeding station.
The meadow is starting to grow quickly now with the first Northern Marsh Orchids coming out.
Today's high tide is at 09:57, 8.3m.
Around the reserve:
Wildflowers
Primrose
Lesser Celandine
Cuckoo Flower
Bluebell
Blackthorn
Gorse
Wild Garlic
Red Campion
Dog Violet
Herb Robert
Northern Marsh Orchid
Insects
Peacock Butterfly
Orange Tip Butterfly
Tree Bumblebee
Buff-tailed Bumblebee
Common Carder Bumblebee
White-tailed Bunblebee
Emerald Damselfly
Large Red Damselfly
Four-spot Chaser Dragonfly
Common Blue Damselfly
Whooper Pond
Mallard 10
Folly Pond
Mallard 20
Shoveler 2
Lapwing 3
Oystercatcher 2 - on nest with 3 eggs
Teal Pond
Mute Swan 2 - on nest
Moorhen 1
Avenue Tower
Black-headed Gull 11
Mute Swan 2
Mallard 14
Gadwall 1
Oystercatcher 2
Lapwing 6 +1 chick
Longhorn Cattle 2
Marsh Harrier - 1 yesterday
Saltcot Merse Observatory
Kestrel
Buzzard
Mute Swan
Shelduck
Mallard
Lapwing
Oystercatcher
Curlew
Little Egret
Great Black-backed Gull
Black-headed Gull
Common Gull
Herring Gull
Hebridean Sheep 9
Avenues & Feeders
(notable species)
Reed Bunting
Sparrowhawk
Coal Tit
Long-tailed Tit
Goldfinch
Greenfinch
House Sparrow
Tree Sparrow
Treecreeper
Great-spotted Woodpecker
Goldcrest
Chiffchaff
Willow Warbler
Sedge Warbler
Blackcap
Webcam
The osprey nest camera is live on our website, 10am - 5pm!
https://www.wwt.org.uk/wetland-centres/caerlaverock/experience/ospreys/
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