Clouded yellows & migrant hawkers

With daytime temps still in the high teens, on sunny breaks we are seeing migrant hawker dragonflies and common darter dragonflies come out. Checking our Black Rabbit triangle area we spotted a pair of clouded yellow butterflies on Monday!

The digger and pumps between the Ramsar and Sand martin hide are noisy some days but the exposed mud from the Arundel Lagoon project has attracted a green sandpiper and will likely bring in more birds in the mornings. You can read more on the project HERE.

Good numbers of gadwall and shoveller onsite and green woodpeckers are n the old Tundra pen most afternoons, enjoying the access to ants the newly cropped vegetation gives them.

Wed 20 Oct

Sand Martin hide: 6 lapwing

Scrape hide: 10 gadwall, 28 mallard, 2 coot, and 15 shoveler

Old tundra pen: 1 green woodpeckers,

Tues 19 Oct

Insects: 2 clouded yellow butterflies, 6 migrant hawkers dragonflies, 4 common darter dragonflies

Ramsar and Sand martin hides: 56 Canada geese, 2 Egyptian geese, 1 greylag, 3 moorhens, 2 lapwings, 1 grey herons, 1 yellow wagtail.

Mon 18 Oct

Old tundra pen: 2 green woodpeckers

Lapwing hide: 2 reed warblers, 2 gadwall, 1 jay

Ramsar hide: 2 grey herons, 1 little egret, 3 cormorants

Sand martin hide: 1 lapwing

Scrape hide: 1 kingfisher

Sun 17 Oct

Wetland Discovery area: 27 mallards, 6 black headed gulls, 4 coots, 1 gadwall, 1 moorhen, 5 tufted ducks, 1 robin, 2 pheasants

Pelican Cove: 1 pochard

Sand martin hide: 1 pintail, 1 green sandpiper

Fri 15 Oct

Arun Riverlife & Pelican cove: 22 mallards, 1 pochards, 1 little grebe, 5 Canada geese, 5 greylag geese, 5 tufted ducks, 26 coots, 2 gadwall

Thurs 15 Oct

Ramsar & Sand Martin hide: 2 cattle egrets, 15 shoveler, 2 snipe, 5 teal, 1 common sandpiper

Pelican Cove: 1 pochard

Arun Riverlife: 1 little grebe

Scrap hide: 14 shoveler, 1 snipe

Wood loop: 3 moorhen, 1 robin, 3 chaffinch, 6 blue tits, 1 wood pigeon, 4 mallards, 2 wrens, 1 nuthatch

Wed 14 Oct

Reedbed boardwalk: 10 long tailed tits, 4 blue tits, 1 sedge warbler, 2 reed warbler, 1 nuthatch, 1 robin, 2 wood pigeon, 1 kingfisher

Willow screen: 31 mallard

Reedbed hide: 1 green woodpecker

Scrape hide: 1 wigeon, 1 kingfisher

Ramsar & Sand martin: 2 lapwing, 2 snipe

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