Anything that has been spotted on the nature reserve
The glorious 12th, if your not a grouse. Ian told myself and Terry this morning he had seen a young Cuckoo in the same place on the main path, two mornings on the run. We walked up the path and sure enough it was where Ian had described, but it saw us first and moved […]
We had a fairly good walk this morning, nothing much to report except we got "cleged". Attached is a marked up Google map showing the positions and approximate number of Yellow Bartsia, a copy has also been put in the photo section "flowers". This pm managed to sight a couple of Brown Hawkers and one […]
The morning was very still and humid, lots of midges and clegs, we had a look at pond 35, all the cows and calves were lying down, just having a cud chewing time, except for one large calf decided it would have a drink of milk. No sign of natterjacks at the pond but did […]
Well so much for bragging of not getting wet on Saturday, yesterday we were caught in a thunder storm, rain and hail, with no waterproofs, a complete change of clothing required. Today has produced lots of new Common Blue damselflies, a few Common Blue butterflies and on the west side of the sandunes quite a […]
We nearly made it all the way round without getting a sprinkling, it’s getting better. We were watching a family of Sedge Warblers, probably the second brood, for about ten minutes. The young were busy calling while the parents searched for food, but if anything flew close they soon stopped, then tried catching it, including […]
I was up a bit earlier today to try and catch the Barn Owls at home and there are still two young in the nest but should be fledged any day. Well a much warmer day and it brought out the Meadow Browns, Gatekeepers and Common Darters by the dozens. Bob also noticed a large […]
Well the weather forecast was wrong again and it stayed fine for the very rare summer visitor from Media City, the BBC Gardeners World team led by Carol Klein. They spent the day filming a variety of plants that prefer the dune habitat. Steve Benn was there guide and he has promised to let us […]
Over the last few days we have seen 40 – 50 of Goldfinches feeding on the thistles between the feeders, it appears to be another good year. Around the feeder area there are a few young Bullfinches in addition to the adults, hoping it has been a good year for them too, we will know […]
This morning there were a group of Mallard ducklings on one of the Islands, we have not seen them before, the pic has been enlarged and you can clearly see the rings, looks as though they have just been released. Bob and Bri
This morning there was a family of mallard on one of the small ponds, they are about a week old and may do better because it’s away from the heron. This afternoon was quite warm and new common darter were everywhere, also the Gatekeeper butterfly was taking advantage of weather, see pic. The Cinnabar caterpillar […]