Todays sightings
A foggy start which has given the site an ethereal feel. A few more summer migrants have dropped in, including sedge warblers that fantastic robotic call! . Chiffchaffs are singing along the footpaths and avocets mating in front of the hides. Also a moorhen has chosen to next on the pond between the car park and the visitor centre so quietly look down off the bridge and you can watch her incubating her eggs.
The signs of spring are definitely here.
Todays sightings
Little grebe
Great-crested grebe
Mute swan
Whooper swan
Greylag goose
Mallard
Gadwall
Pintail
Shelduck
Shoveler
Wigeon
Teal
Tufted duck
Moorhen
Coot
Water rail
Avocet
Little ringed plover
Redshank
Lapwing
Black-tailed godwits 500
Snipe
Oystercatcher
Dunlin
Cormorant
Grey heron
Little egret
Black-headed gull
Common gull
Lesser black-backed gull
Great black-backed gull
Crow
Rook
Jackdaw
Magpie
Woodpigeon
Stock dove
Collared dove
Pheasant
Red legged partridge
Kestrel
Buzzard
Barn owl
Little owl – Lady Fen
Blackbird
Song thrush
Mistle thrush
Starling
Green woodpecker
Blue tit
Great tit
Long-tailed tit
Dunnock
Robin
Wren
Goldfinch
Chaffinch
Greenfinch
Reed bunting
Linnet
House sparrow
Tree sparrow
Cetti’s warbler
Chiffchaff
Sedge warbler - 2 singing next to the footpaths near lyle hide
Skylark
Meadow pipit
Pied wagtail
