Stormy week

Despite several stormy days this last week there has been plenty to see on the reserve.

Despite several stormy days this last week there has been loads to see on the reserve. The skies have been teeming with barnacle geese, lapwing, curlew, redshank, golden plover and oyster catchers. The hedges buzzing with yellowhammers, bullfinches, sparrows, greenfinch, goldfinch and redwing.

A real treat for the reserve team this week was heading out onto the merse where a skylark chorus was filling the sky while they hovered busily across the saltmarsh, scoping out breeding sites for later in the year. A ringtail hen harrier was spotted yesterday quartering over the flood ground and was clearly visible from Campbell hide. Two otter sightings have excited our volunteers and visitors, one from teal pond hide and one from the whooper pond. It is also lovely to see the juvenile whooper swans starting to develop the yellow on their bills and their grey plumage turning to white.

Unable to visit us in person or missing your daily fix of swans, waders, and badgers’ antics, then click on the link below to check out our webcam which is set on the Whooper pond during the day, and then set to view the badger feeding area from 5pm onwards.

Photo credit: Alex Hillier

https://www.wwt.org.uk/wetland-centres/caerlaveroc...

This week's high tide times are:

Sat 19/02- 14:02 - 9.4 m

Sun 20/02- 14:36- 9.3 m

Mon 21/02- 15:12- 9.2 m

Tues 22/02- 15:51- 8.9 m

Wed 23/02- 16:37- 8.5 m

Thur 24/02- 17:38- 8.0 m

Fri 25/02- 19:04- 7.6 m


As well as this week's highlights, you are likely to see the following on the reserve:


Birds

Mammals

Named Whooper Swans

Mute Swan

Hare

Yellow ZHD - Renouf

Greylag geese

Roe Deer

Yellow ZND - Rosie

Canada Geese

Weasel

Yellow ZLD - McMurdoston

Shelduck

Stoat

Orange XLX - Linda Graham

Mallard

Fox

Yellow ZLS - Handel

Gadwall

Otter

Yellow ZXP - Mary

Shoveler

BadgerRed APR - Elsie Barbara

Teal

Orange YFB - Eric Anthony

Moorhen

Yellow ZHV - Wampool

Cormorant

Yellow ZJS - Hendrik

Little Egret


Orange YSJ - Sheldon Whooper

Grey Heron

Orange YTF - Odette

Buzzard


Orange XKU - Solway Siren

Kestrel


Orange XLL - Chris

Peregrine Falcon

Yellow ZLA - Beatrice

Merlin

Yellow ZJI - Indigo Montoya

Sparrowhawk

Yellow ZJX - Polly

Golden Plover

Yellow ZVL - Nobby Nobkin

Oystercatcher

Yellow ZNP - Lucky Linda

Lapwing

Orange XLD - Donald Ivan

Common Sandpiper

Yellow ZFV - Giffnock

Redshank

Yellow ZLP - Keith John

Black-tailed Godwit

Yellow ZNC - Rowena Two

Curlew

Yellow ZSB - Sugar Baby

Snipe

Yellow ZPY - Sigurdswan

Black-headed Gull

Yellow ZJH - Aspen

Common Gull

Yellow ZJN - Nado

Herring Gull

Yellow ZVC - Ava-Grace

Great Black Backed Gull

Orange XLJ - Bernard

Wood Pigeon

Yellow ZJZ - Snoopy

Collared Dove

Yellow ZLJ - TJ Whooper

Great Spotted Woodpecker

Yellow ZNA - George

Skylark

Yellow ZNU - Janis

Yellowhammer

Redwing

Fieldfare

Meadow Pipit

Pied Wagtail

Dunnock

Robin

Song Thrush

Blackbird

Greenfinch

Goldfinch

Wren

Great Tit

Coal Tit

Blue Tit

Long-tailed Tit

Treecreeper

Jackdaw

Rook

Carrion Crow

Raven

Starling

House Sparrow

Tree Sparrow

Chaffinch

Linnet

Twite

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