Latest Sightings
This week's sightings include:
Ron Barker Hide
- Barn owl
- Hobby
- Buzzard
- Kestrel
- Whooper swan
- Black-tailed godwit
- Ruff
- Grey heron
Discovery / Raines / Hale / Gladstone Hides
- Cattle egret
- Little grebe
- Cormorant
- Common sandpiper
- Tufted ducks with ducklings
- Kestrel
Janet Kear Hide
- Great spotted woodpecker
Harrier Hide / Reedbed Walk
- Barn owl
- Great crested grebe
- Grey heron
- Mute swan
- Reed warbler
United Utilities / Gordon Taylor Hides
- Barn owl
- Marsh harrier
- Kestrel
- Snipe
- Garganey
- Grey heron
- Cetti's warbler
- Sedge warbler
- Reed warbler
We've also had various butterflies and dragonflies spotted around the reserve, including:
- Red admiral
- Peacock
- Wall
- Holly blue
- Common blue
- Brimstone
- Comma
- Southern hawker
- Brown hawker
- Common hawker
- Four-spotted chaser
- Black-tailed skimmer
- Common darter
- Blue-tailed damselfly
This week's feature photo is of a peacock butterfly.
North West Bird Watching Festival 2022
Join us at this year’s Bird Watching Festival and watch up to 30,000 pink-footed geese return to the roost. We’ll have guest speakers, exhibitors, photography workshops and guided reserve walks for a full day out from dawn till dusk. Find out more
