Recent Sightings - 9th July 2018
The following sightings were recorded today at High tide from the reserve at Castle Espie.
Exciting news from the Freshwater Lagoon this morning! A Common Sandpiper was seen bobbing around the edges of the lagoon! The hot weather is drying up the lagoon and exposing more mud making this a perfect sheltered spot for the Common Sandpiper to forage for food. Keep an eye out for this small bird from the Brent hide and Roundhouse hide.
Estuary – visible from the Brent Hide and the Limekiln Observatory
Black-headed Gull 7, Common Eider 2 + Chick 1
Main lake – visible from Sensory garden and Visitor centre
Mallard 54, Tufted duck 6 + chicks 5, Black-headed gull 32, Coot 4, Greylag 1, Common Gull 1, Moorhen 3
Shingle bank – visible from Sensory garden, Wadermarsh and Visitor Centre
Black-headed gull 53, Oystercatcher 16, Moorhen 1, Tufted duck 7, Mallard 20, Little Egret 2, Black-tailed Godwit 2, Cormorant 1
Wadermarsh – visible from Wadermarsh lookout and Brent Hide
Black-headed gull c.300, Moorhen 4, Black-tailed Godwit 29, Oystercatcher c. 525
Freshwater Lagoon – visible from Brent Hide and Crannóg
Shelduck 1 + young 8, Mallard 14, Coot 2 + chicks 1, Black-headed gull 50 + Juvenile 30 , Tufted duck 3 + chicks 9, Moorhen 1 + chick 1, Black-tailed Godwit 32, Teal 2, Heron 2, Common Sandpiper 1
Saline Lagoon – visible from Limekiln observatory
Shelduck 1, Common Tern 1, Little Grebe 2
Limestone Lake
Mallard 4, Tufted duck 7, Little Grebe 1 + chicks 2
Peninsula Field and Saltmarsh
Black-headed Gull 1
Brickworks
Linnet, Meadow Pipit, Starling, Swallow, House Martin
Woodland
Blackbird, Wren, Song Thrush, Wood pigeon, Robin, Blue tit, Great tit, Coal tit, Dunnock, Chaffinch, Goldfinch, Bullfinch, Black-Cap
Butterflies on the reserve
Small White, Large White, Green-veined White, Speckled Wood, Common Blue, Meadow Brown, Small Tortoiseshell, Red Admiral, Ringlet, Six-Spot Burnet Moth
