Wildlife sightings for 20th September 2021
Pectoral Sandpiper on the wader scrape.
1 Pectoral Sandpiper - wader scrape
1 Knot - main lake (in front of WWF)
1 Common Sandpiper - main lake
1 Ruff - wader scrape
1 Pintail - main lake
1 Wheatear - wader scrape
57 Wigeon - main lake
1 Kestrel - South route
** Please note: There will be essential habitat management works taking place on the grazing marsh on the 21st, 22nd and 23rd September. We apologise for any inconvenience and disturbance that this may cause **
Flowering plants: Bristly Ox-tongue, Hawkweed Ox-tongue, Cat's ear, Meadow Vetchling, Tufted Vetch, Dove's-foot Crane's-bill, Cut-leaved Crane's-bill, Common Vetch, Bird's-foot Trefoil, Common Mallow, Ragwort, White Water-lily, Meadow Rue, Agrimony, Amphibious Bistort, Square-stalked St.John's Wort, Perforate St.John's Wort, Betony, Meadow-sweet, Self-heal, Marsh Woundwort, Yellow Loosestrife, Purple Loosestrife, Flowering Rush, Water-plantain, Fringed Water-lily, Yarrow, Black Medick, Hop Trefoil, Hare's-foot Clover, Water Mint, Hemp Agrimony, Figwort.
Butterflies: (mid September survey) Red Admiral, Large White, Green-veined White, Small White, Speckled Wood.
Dragonflies: (mid September survey) Ruddy Darter, Common Darter, Small red-eyed Damselfly, Common Blue Damselfly, Brown Hawker, Migrant Hawker, Emperor, Willow Emerald Damselfly.
