Avocet chick by Anthony Lovatt

 

Marsh harrier - 1 over reed bed

Avocet - 45+ chicks on scrape

Dunlin - 3 in front of Inner Marsh Farm hide

Ringed plover - 1 on scrape

Swift - 50+ over reception hide

Cetti's warbler - 1 by reed bed screen

Sedge warbler - 1 in reeds next to reception hide

Green woodpecker - 1 on Burton Point

Common tern - 1 over mere pools

Pintail - 1 on bridge pool

Great crested grebe - 2 on bridge pool

Barnacle goose - 1 on scrape

 

Also seen around the reserve -

Northern marsh orchid

Holly blue butterfly

Speckled wood butterfly

Orange tip butterfly

Small heath butterfly

Large red damselfly

Four-spotted chaser dragonfly