Image- Clouded Yellow Butterfly, MJM.
Upcoming Events
Dragonfly Festival - 18 July - 3 Sept
Guided Birdwatch Walk - Tuesday 4 August
Birding for Beginners - Wednesday 5 August
Summer Walkway
Fully open for the summer, from after 0815hrs to 1630hrs each day. Please allow time to return. Enjoy.
Saturday 25 July
Rushy
Spoonbill, 2 Common Terns, 148 Black-tailed Godwit, 16 Ruff, 4 Redshank, 3 Avocet (2 juvenile), 1 Green Sandpiper, 2 Spotted Redshank
Kingfisher Hide
2 Reed Bunting fledglings, Mute Swan with 4 cygnets, Great Spotted Woodpecker and Stock Dove calling in the trees left of hide, Cettis Warbler singing
Bottom New Piece
18 Canada geese and 30 Lapwing
Mid Point
9 Curlew, 2 Grey Heron, singles of Little Egret, Great Egret, Spoonbill, Great Black Back Gull, Reed Bunting, Reed Warbler and Stonechat juveniles
South Lake
1 Green Sandpiper, 12 Lapwings, juvenile Pied Wagtails and 91 Greylag Geese
Top New Piece
16 Lapwing, 16 Canada geese, 1 Grey Heron, 23 Teal, 1 Avocet, 46 Dunlin, 4 Curlew, 1 Green Sandpiper, Cranes Ruby and her mate
Dumbles
4 Yellow Wagtail, singles of Lesser Whitethroat, Chiffchaff Green and Common Sandpiper, Goldfinch and Linnet flocks, House Martins and Swallows everywhere
Tack Piece
3 Green Sandpiper close to Robbie Garnett Hide and 4 more down the channel, 1 Common Sandpiper, 4 Lapwing, 1 Greenshank, 4 Ruff, 1 male Yellow Wagtail, 1 Little-ringed Plover down channel
Martin Smith hide
family of 4 Sedge Warbler, 1 Little Egret.
Friday 24 July
Tack Piece
6 Green Sandpiper, 3 Lapwing, 1 Common Sandpiper, Wood Sandpiper, 2 Redshank, 2 Grey Heron, several juvenile Pied Wagtail, few Swallow feeding
Summer Walkway
Lesser Whitethroat
South Finger
Reed beds mostly silent now but Reed and Sedge Warbler still present. Chiffchaff and Blackcap feeding above Buddleia bush and Common Whitethroat above Kingfisher nesting bank on Elder berries. Roe Deer
Top New Piece
Bittern, 32 Dunlin with 5 of them Juvenile birds, Singles of Avocet, Green Sandpiper and Snipe. 30 loafing Lapwing
Bottom New Piece
Goshawk
Rushy
1 Mute Swan, 5 Greylag Geese, 9 Shelduck, 26 Gadwall, 12 Mallard, 6 Tufted Duck, 3 Shoveler, 2 Teal, 1 Pochard, 6 Coot, 2 Moorhen, 2 Black Tailed Godwit, 5 Ruff, 2 Redshank, 1 Spotted Redshank, 1 Spoonbill, 1 Little Egret, 4 Black-headed Gull, 2 Collard Dove, 6 Sand Martin, 2 House Martin
Thursday 23 July
South Lake Discovery Hide
On the deep lake section (North or left side of hide) a male Lesser Emperor was patrolling the shore line below the hide and two male Red-veined Darters settling on the flowers on the bank, c20 Small Red-eyed Damselfly on the algal mats.
Tack Piece
Wood Sandpiper feeding on the scrape with a Common and 10 Green Sandpipers.
Middle Point/Summer Walkway area
Around the pillbox and wheelchair accessible ramp- 15 Yellow and 4 Pied Wagtails, juvenile Stonechat, juvenile Reed Bunting, charm of Goldfinches, c20 Swallows.
Wednesday 22 July
Tack Piece
2 Shelduck, 10 Gadwall, 3 Teal, 3 Moorhen, 1 Lapwing, 1 Common Sandpiper, 8 green Sandpiper, Greenshank, 3 Ruff, 39 Black-tailed Godwit, 1 Grey Heron, Yellow Wagtail and 23 Pied Wagtails
Dumbles
16 Curlew, Kestrel, Peregrine Falcon, 10 Cranes hundreds of swallows and house martins feeding!
Dumbles Scrape
2 Stock Doves, 2 Little Ringed Plover, 1 Green Sandpiper
Decoy Hide
Both adult Kingfishers are taking fish into the nest hole of far SW side of the pond
Rushy Hide
3 Spotted Redshank, Green Sandpiper, 6 Ruff, c30 Black-tailed Godwit, 2 Avocet and Snipe among the birds on the lower pond
Top New Piece
Spoonbill, Great Egret, 48 Dunlin, Sparrowhawk, Avocet, Green Sandpiper, 2 Cranes and a quick sighting of a Bittern.
South Lake
60+ Lapwing including the partially leucistic individual 'LAPPACHINO' (pictured below MJM)
Kingfisher Hide
Ruby & Wild flew over, 2 Mute Swans, 4 Reed Bunting
Tuesday 21 July
Monday 20 July
Green Sandpiper, Tack Piece.
Kingfisher update at the Decoy Hide
A pair continue to feed young at the nest bank on the far SW side of the pond, bank is hidden but the ash branch in the water nearby is used a perch before entering and exiting the nest hole. Also a Clouded Yellow here today.
South Lake
Little Grebe, Little-ringed Plover, 4 Redshank, Black-tailed Godwit, Green Sandpiper, c20 Teal, 140+ Gadwall.
Tack Piece
Early morning- 2 Brown Hare, Common Sandpiper, 5 Green Sandpiper, male Ruff, Snipe, Redshank, 6 Black-tailed Godwit, 2 broods of Gadwall, a small flock of Teal, 7 Lapwing.
Estuary Tower
Breeding plumage male Bar-tailed Godwit feeding on the mud off the Dumbles with Curlew, single Crane on the Dumbles with Pied and Yellow Wagtails, Linnets and Goldfinches in the drying scrape.
Rushy Hide/Peng Observatory
Early morning- Little Grebe, 70 Black-tailed Godwit, 3 Spotted Redshank, 4 Avocet, 2 Green Sandpiper, 13 Ruff, broods of Gadwall, Shelduck and Tufted Ducks. A Snipe late morning. Three terns, probably Common flew over. At least three Hummingbird Hawk Moths outside the hide and Estuary Garden area.
