Here is a list of the wildlife sighted from 09/05/23 - 15/05/23:

Birds of Prey

  • Common Buzzard
  • Hobby
  • Kestral
  • Marsh Harrier
  • Red kite
  • Sparrowhawk

Ducks/Geese/Grebes 

  • Canada Goose (goslings)
  • Egyptian geese
  • Gadwall
  • Great crested grebe
  • Greylag geese
  • Mallard
  • Mute swan
  • Pochard
  • Shelduck
  • Shoveler
  • Teal
  • Tufted

Herons

  • Cattle egret
  • Cormorant
  • Grey heron
  • Glossy ibis (hayfield, dengemarsh)
  • Little egret 

Waders and Rails  

  • Avocet (hayfield)
  • Bar-tailed godwit
  • Black tailed godwit
  • Coot
  • Dunlin
  • Greenshank
  • Lapwing
  • Moorhen
  • Oystercatcher
  • Ringed plover
  • Ruff
  • Turnstone
  • Whimbrel

Little Birds

  • Black redstart
  • Blackbird
  • Blackcap
  • Blue tit
  • Cetti's warbler
  • Chaffinch
  • Corn bunting
  • Dunnock
  • Great tit
  • House Martin
  • House sparrow
  • Lesser Whitethroat
  • Linnet
  • Marsh tit
  • Pied wagtail
  • Reed bunting
  • Reed warbler
  • Robin
  • Sand martin
  • Sedge warbler
  • Siskins
  • Stonechat
  • Swallow
  • Swift
  • Turtle dove (ARC water tower)
  • Whitethroat
  • Wood pigeon
  • Wren

Gulls

  • Common Gull
  • Common tern (Dengemarsh)
  • Lesser black backed gull

Corvids

  • Hooded Crow (Dengemarsh road)
  • Magpie

Other 

  • Brown stoat
  • Cinnabar moth
  • Common frog
  • Common lizard
  • Dragonflies: four spot chasers and hairy
  • Fox
  • Green tiger beetle (Hanson Track)
  • Marsh frog
  • Smooth newt

 Image of a turtle dove by Dave Clarke