Wildlife sightings for 21st September 2021
Pectoral Sandpiper, Garganey and Pintail on the reserve
1 Pectoral Sandpiper - wader scrape, main lake
1 Whimbrel - main lake p.m.
1 Garganey - wader scrape
1 Pintail - main lake
8 Yellow Wagtail - grazing marsh with cattle
6 Meadow Pipit - marsh
13 Snipe - grazing marsh
1 Water Rail - Wildside
51 Wigeon - main lake, scrape
1 Little Grebe - main lake
1 Sparrowhawk - roosted in main reedbed
** Please note: There will be essential habitat management works taking place on the grazing marsh on the 21st and 22nd 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.
