Bug Hunting

This week has all been about the emergence of insects so bug hunters big and small please come and see what you can discover there is no upper age limit to bug hunting or pond dipping! To add to our butterfly list of last week we have had red admirals and walls (which are not common on the reserve). Hoverflies, green dock beetles, click beetles, crane flies, scorpionflies and day-flying moths have all been spotted along the meadow walk to join the bumblebees flying around the reserve. In the raised pond are great diving beetles, water boatmen, whirligig beetles, pond skaters and much more.

Photo credit: Alex Hillier

Species around the Reserve

Mute Swan

Greylag geese

Canada Geese

Shelduck

Mallard

Gadwall

Shoveler

Wigeon

Teal

Goosander

Pheasant

Cormorant

Little Egret

Grey Heron

Buzzard

Kestrel

Peregrine Falcon

Moorhen

Oystercatcher

Lapwing

Common Sandpiper

Redshank

Black-tailed Godwit

Curlew

Snipe

Black-headed Gull

Common Gull

Herring Gull

Great Black Backed Gull

Wood Pigeon

Collared Dove

Great Spotted Woodpecker

Skylark

Sand Martin

House Martin

Barn Swallow

Meadow Pipit

Pied Wagtail

Dunnock

Robin

Wheatear

Song Thrush

Blackbird

Blackcap

Whitethroat

Sedge Warbler

Willow Warbler

Chiffchaff

Wren

Great Tit

Coal Tit

Blue Tit

Long-tailed Tit

Treecreeper

Jackdaw

Rook

Carrion Crow

Raven

Starling

House Sparrow

Tree Sparrow

Chaffinch

Linnet

Lessed Redpoll

Goldfinch

Greenfinch

Reed Bunting

Hare

Roe Deer

Weasel

Stoat

Fox

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