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Wildlife sightings - 02/05/2017

AM high tide

 

Wader Lake

Avocet 17

Ringed plover 2 (pair)

Black-tailed godwit 15

Northern shoveler 5

Oystercatcher 3

Redshank 4

Swallow 3

Common tern 22

Gadwall 3

Shelduck 18

Tufted duck 9

 

Saline Lagoon

Mute swan 2

Avocet 5

Oystercatcher 1

Tufted duck 10

Lapwing 2

 

Hawthorn Wood

Coal tit 4

Bullfinch 12

Willow tit 1

Dunnock 2

Chaffinch 8

Goldfinch 6

Greenfinch 1

 

Other locations

A common whitethroat on the lagoon footpath and another outside of the Prince's Trust Hide

A reed warbler and a sedge warbler at the filter reedbed

Willow warbler singing across the reserve 7

Blackcap in Spring Gill Wood 2

 

Other species

A buff-tailed bumblebee (Queen)

A common carder bee

Tadpoles

Herb Robert

Red campion

Marsh marigold

Bluebell

Primrose

Hart's-tongue fern

Bugle

Self heal

Germander speedwell