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