Join us on the 27th and 28th of April for birding and optics sessions! Ask the expert from Viking your questions and go on a walk with a warden learning about our reserve and its inhabitants.
Close alertHeading into August
It has been another dry week here and the low water levels in the ponds have been particularly great for viewing snipe feeding on the folly pond.
It has been another dry week here and the low water levels
in the ponds have been particularly great for viewing snipe feeding on the
folly pond, with 30 snipe being our highest count so far.
Other bird sightings this week include yellowhammer, chiffchaff, reed warbler and reed bunting. There are plenty of butterflies to be seen around the reserve such as meadow brown, ringlet, peacock and green-veined white, and also dragonflies, including emperor, four-spotted chaser and common darters.
Other bird sightings this week include yellowhammer, chiffchaff, reed warbler and reed bunting. There are plenty of butterflies to be seen around the reserve such as meadow brown, ringlet, peacock and green-veined white, and also dragonflies, including emperor, four-spotted chaser and common darters.
Photo credit: Alex Hillier
| Birds | Mammals | Butterflies | Damselflies & Dragonflies |
| Mute Swan | Hare | Common Blue | Large Red |
| Greylag geese | Roe Deer | Red Admiral | Blue-tailed |
| Canada Geese | Weasel | Meadow Brown | Azure |
| Shelduck | Stoat | Ringlet | Common Blue |
| Mallard | Fox | Green-veined White | Four-spotted Chaser |
| Gadwall | Large White | Banded Demoiselle | |
| Shoveler | Small Copper | Common Darter | |
| Teal | Large Skipper | ||
| Pheasant | Small Tortoiseshell | ||
| 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 | |||
| 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 | |||
| Goldfinch | |||
| Greenfinch | |||
| Reed Bunting |
