Todays sightings
A beautiful day out on the reserve with lots of fledgling waders and black-headed gulls. Small wader chicks have been seen out on the reserve including under a week old snipe chicks, lapwing chicks and avocet chicks.
The dragonflies are basking in the sunlight and can be seen whipping along the footpaths perching on the vegetation including a migrant hawker, brown hawkers and lots of damselflies.
Volunteer Tony lead 2 fantastic walks today on the reserve starting with a beginners birding walk where Tony explains about why the ducks are looking slightly shabby in their eclipse plumage and showing the difference between the 3 sandpipers we have onsite. After lunch is the wildflowers walk explaining about the beautiful flowers that can be seen about the reserve their uses and mythology.
Todays highlights
9 green sandpiper
1 wood sandpiper
1 greenshank
