Recent Sightings 20/04/24 - 04/05/24

Birds of Prey 

  • Buzzard 
  • Kestrel
  • Hobby 
  • Marsh Harrier
  • Merlin
  • Red Kite
  • Sparrowhawk

Ducks/Geese/Grebes/Swans    

  • Canada Geese 
  • Egyptian Geese
  • Garganey (Burrowes Pit) 
  • Gadwall 
  • Greylag Geese (Boulderwall Fields)  
  • Great Crested Grebe (Dengemarsh)
  • Little Grebe 
  • Mallard (Burrowes Pit) 
  • Mute Swan (Burrowes Pit)
  • Pochard (Burrowes Pit)
  • Shoveler (Burrowes Pit)
  • Shelduck (Burrowes Pit)
  • Teal 
  • Tufted (Burrowes Pit)  

Herons

  • Bittern
  • Cormorant (Burrowes Pit)
  • Little Egret  
  • Grey heron 
  • Great White Egret

Waders and Rails  

  • Avocets
  • Black-tailed Godwit   
  • Coot (Burrowes Pit) 
  • Curlew (Boulderwall Farm)
  • Common Sandpiper
  • Dunlin (Burrowes Pit)  
  • Greenshank (ARC)
  • Grey Plover (Hayfields 2)
  • Jack Snipe (Hayfields 3)
  • Knot (Burrowes Pit)  
  • Lapwing (Boulderwall Fields)
  • Little Ringed Plover (Burrowes Pit) 
  • Moorhen (Burrowes Pit)
  • Redshank
  • Ringed Plover   
  • Oystercatcher (Burrowes Pit)
  • Whimbrel (Burrowes Pit) 

Little Birds

  • Bearded Tits  
  • Blackbird (Bird Feeders)
  • Black Redstart  
  • Blue Tit (Bird Feeders) 
  • Cetti's Warbler
  • Chiffchaff (ARC)
  • Chaffinch (Bird Feeders)
  • Cuckoo   
  • Dunnock (Bird Feeders) 
  • Goldfinch
  • Great Tit (Bird Feeders)
  • Greenfinch (Bird Feeders)
  • House Martin
  • Lesser Whitethroat
  • Linnet 
  • Meadow Pipit (Hayfields 1) 
  • Pied Wagtail 
  • Reed Bunting
  • Reed Warbler  
  • Robin (Visitor Centre) 
  • Sedge Warbler 
  • Swallow
  • Swift  
  • Sand Martin
  • Whitethroat
  • Wheatear     
  • Wren (Visitor Centre)
  • Yellow Wagtail (Spring Field Bridge)

Seabirds

  • Common Gull (Burrowes Pit)
  • Common Terns (Burrowes Pit)
  • Great Black-backed Gulls (Burrowes Pit and ARC) 
  • Herring Gull (Burrowes Pit)
  • Mediterranean Gull
  • Sandwich Tern
  • Yellow-legged Gull  

Corvids

  • Crow 
  • Magpie

Other

  • Common Blue Damselfly 
  • Common Lizard 
  • Hare 
  • Marsh Frog
  • Peacock Butterfly
  • Stoat
  • Small Copper Butterfly 

Red Kite by Ben Hall