Teal were around in good numbers, with some Shoveler too.
I was quite keen to see the sandpipers. In Island lake there was a Common Sandpiper, walking by the shore and then going back to the starting point. Their Spanish name 'andarrios' (river walkers) suits them beautifully.
A couple of Little Ringed plovers and Meadow Pipits were also present on one of the islands.
At the lee side of Turret hide, dragonflies (Common Darters and Migrant Hawkers) were active. This was also the case in all the sheltered corners of the reserve.
I continued north from Turret hide. On the large patch of Rosebay Willowherb a warbler called 'tu-ee' repeatedly. At a particular time, it sang and its identity was revealed, a Chiffchaff. On Snipe field, a Wheatear allowed me to approach and I watched it for a while. A large flock of goldfinches with many young fed on the teasels and burdocks by the north hedge.
There was little to see from Crosslands hide, but for the resting Great Black-backed gull and fishing cormorants on the silt pond.
In Main Lake, lots of fishing birds. A cormorant, a Kingfisher flying right nest to the hide, and a Little Grebe fishing for its young. I also managed to see a Green Sandpiper, which was often being followed on its restless walk up and down the lake shore by a common Sandpiper.
Butterfly wise, I saw a few Speckled Woods and a couple of whites, one of them a Green-veined white.
A small flowering Ivy by the entrance was teeming with wasps and hoverflies, including Eristalis sp. and Myathropa florea.
Migrant hawker
The view from Turret hide
Common Sandpiper
Wheatear
Male Common Darter
Great, Black-backed gull, BH gulls and Cormorant
The lone Black Swan in Carp Lake
Male Common Darter
Another Migrant Hawker
Cormorant
Little Grebe feeding young
Green Sandpiper
Speckled Wood
Green-veined White
Bird list- Black Swan
- Black-headed Gull
- Blackbird
- Blue Tit
- Buzzard
- Canada Goose
- Carrion Crow
- Chiffchaff
- Common Gull
- Common Sandpiper
- Coot
- Cormorant
- Feral Pigeon
- Gadwall
- Goldfinch
- Great Black-backed Gull
- Great Crested Grebe
- Green Sandpiper
- Greylag Goose
- House Martin
- House Sparrow
- Jackdaw
- Kestrel
- Kingfisher
- Lapwing
- Little Grebe
- Little Ringed Plover
- Magpie
- Mallard
- Meadow Pipit
- Moorhen
- Mute Swan
- Pied Wagtail (yarrellii)
- Pochard
- Redshank
- Reed Bunting
- Robin
- Rook
- Shoveler
- Swallow
- Teal
- Tufted Duck
- Wheatear
- Woodpigeon
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