Todays Highlights
On Tuesday the reserve team were working hard out on the pools, clearing the islands and creating muddy edges. This work creates fantastic habitat for passage migrant waders, our wintering wildfowl and by March next year the islands will be perfect for our returning breeding waders such as Avocets.
Today the muddy edges have already attracted in ...
3 wood sandpipers
Green sandpiper
Common sandpiper
Ruff
Redshank
Lapwing
Black-tailed godwit
Greenshank
Pied wagtails
Yellow wagtails
The bird feeders have been busy with ...
Tree sparrows
House sparrows
Dunnock
Blue tit
Great tit
Goldfinch
Greenfinch
Chaffinch
Nelson lyle hide is a great place to see kingfishers fishing today a visitor watch a kingfisher catch 3 fish, eat 2 and take the 3rd one away.
The leaf cutter bees are showing well flying in and out of a tree stump opposite the north pond dipping platform, as their name suggests they cut sections of leaves and carry them back to their nests, they are solitary bees but we have 4-5 nesting in the same stump. The bees carry the leaves below them so it looks like they are riding a broomstick!
The Ruderal bumblebees (large garden bumblebee) have been seen today by the main observatory feeding on the teasels. They are easily recognisable as they are all black.
