Latest sightings
Wader Lake AM mid-level tide
Black-headed gull - 98
Avocet - 9 plus 1 chick
Redshank - 2 plus 4 chicks
Black-tailed godwit - 3
Lapwing - 10 plus 2 chicks
Shelduck - 8 plus 20 chicks
Gadwall - 8
Wigeon - 2
Common tern - 45
Swift - 2
Hawthorn Wood feeding station
Bullfinch - 3
Chaffinch - 3
Great tit - 5
Blue tit - 2
Robin - 3
Dunnock - 1
Plus a reed warbler and a chiffchaff in the filter reedbed; a black cap and a sedge warbler on East Down and 10+ swallow over site.
Invertebrates - a silver ground carpet moth at the Prince's Trust Hide.
Flora - ragged robin, northern marsh orchid, yellow rattle, common vetch and ox-eye daisy throughout the reserve.
