A list of wildlife sighted from 22/03/23 - 28/03/23:

Birds of Prey

  • Common Buzzard
  • Kestrel
  • Marsh Harrier-Dengemarsh, ARC, Burrowes Pit  
  • Peregrine Falcon
  • White tailed eagle

Ducks/Geese/Grebes 

  • Canada geese
  • Egyptian geese
  • Gadwell
  • Goldeneye - Burrowes
  • Greylag geese
  • Mallard
  • Shelduck
  • Shoveler
  • Pochard
  • Teal
  • Tufted
  • Whooper swan
  • Wigeon

Herons

  • Bittern 
  • Cattle egret
  • Cormorant
  • Glossy ibis-ARC
  • Great white egret
  • Grey heron
  • Little egret 

Waders and Rails  

  • Black tailed godwit
  • Coot
  • Curlew
  • Dunlin
  • Green sandpiper
  • Lapwing
  • Moorhen
  • Oystercatcher
  • Ringed plover
  • Ruff
  • Water rail
  • Whimbrel

Little Birds

  • Alpine Swift
  • Bearded tit
  • Blackbird
  • Blue tit
  • Cetti's warbler
  • Chiffchaff 
  • Dunnock
  • Firecrest
  • Great tit
  • Greenfinch
  • Goldcrest 
  • House sparrow
  • Pied wagtail
  • Reed bunting 
  • Robin
  • Sand martin x2
  • Sedge warbler
  • Water pipit
  • Willow warbler
  • Wood pigeon
  • Wren

Gulls

  • Caspian gull
  • Common Gull
  • Mediterranean gull

Corvids

  • Carrion crow
  • Magpie
  • Raven

Gamebirds

  • Pheasants (male and female)

Other 

  • Brown stoat
  • Fox
  • Hare
  • Stout (Ermine) -  Visitor Centre

 Photograph: a peregrine falcon bathing by Graham Parry