Latest Sightings

This week's sightings include:

Ron Barker Hide

  • Canada goose
  • Shelduck
  • Oystercatcher
  • Avocets (including a juvenile)
  • Black-tailed godwit
  • Marsh harrier
  • Barn owl
  • Hare

Kingfisher Hide

  • Great tit
  • Blue tit
  • Goldfinch
  • Greenfinch
  • Chaffinch
  • Robin

Discovery / Raines / Hale / Gladstone Hides

  • Canada goose
  • Common tern
  • Mediterranean gull
  • Shelduck with ducklings
  • Little egret
  • Kestrel
  • Lapwing
  • Oystercatcher

Janet Kear Hide

  • Great spotted woodpecker
  • Reed bunting
  • Long-tailed tit
  • Great tit
  • Blue tit
  • Goldfinch
  • Greenfinch
  • Chaffinch
  • Bullfinch
  • Shelduck

Harrier Hide / Reedbed Walk

  • Mute swan
  • Canada goose
  • Tufted duck
  • Pochard
  • Cetti's warbler
  • Hare

United Utilities / Gordon Taylor Hides

  • Canada goose
  • Lapwing
  • Shelduck
  • Shoveler
  • Oystercatcher
  • Avocet
  • Barn owls
  • Marsh harriers, including a family with two juveniles
  • Buzzard
  • Kestrel
  • Skylark
  • Sedge warbler
  • Roe deer
  • Hare

We've also had a good variety of moths in our moth trap this week. These include:

  • Eyed hawk-moth
  • Poplar hawk-moth
  • Elephant hawk-moth
  • Gold spot
  • Burnished brass
  • Brimstone
  • Buff-tip
  • Barred straw
  • White foot bell
  • Twin spot plume

This week's feature photo is of a marsh harrier by Louise Clewley

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