Recent Sightings 25/10/24 - 09/11/24

Birds of Prey 

  • Buzzard 
  • Kestrel
  • Marsh Harrier
  • Peregrine Falcon
  • Sparrowhawk  

Ducks/Geese/Grebes/Swans    

  • Black-necked Grebe (Burrowes Pit) 
  • Egyptian Geese
  • Gadwell
  • Greylag Geese (Boulderwall Fields)  
  • Great Crested Grebe
  • Goldeneye (Burrowes Pit)
  • Mallard (Burrowes Pit) 
  • Mute Swan (Burrowes Pit)
  • Little Grebe 
  • Pintail (Burrowes Pit)
  • Slavonian Grebe (Burrowes Pit)
  • Shoveler
  • Red Breasted Merganser (Burrowes Pit)
  • Teal
  • Tufted Duck

Herons 

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

Waders and Rails  

  • Avocets (Burrowes Pit)
  • Coot (Burrowes Pit)
  • Dunlin
  • Golden Plover (ARC)
  • Lapwing  
  • Moorhen (Burrowes Pit)
  • Redshank (Christmas Dale Hide)
  • Snipe (Christmas Dale Hide)
  • Water Rail       

Little Birds

  • Bearded Tits
  • Blackcap   
  • Blackbird (Bird Feeders)
  • Brambling (Dengemarsh)
  • Blue Tit (Bird Feeders)
  • Cetti's Warbler 
  • Chiffchaff (Visitor Centre)
  • Chaffinch (Bird Feeders)
  • Dartford Warbler (Christmas Dale Hide)
  • Dunnock (Bird Feeders)
  • Goldfinch
  • Goldcrest (ARC)
  • Great Tit (Bird Feeders)
  • Great Spotted Woodpecker (Bird Feeders)
  • Greenfinch (Bird Feeders)
  • Green Woodpecker 
  • Hawfinch (Discovery Area) 
  • House Sparrow
  • Firecrest (Firth Lookout)
  • Kingfisher (Visitor Centre)
  • Long-tailed Tits
  • Meadow Pipit
  • Pied Wagtail
  • Redwing
  • Redpoll  
  • Reed Bunting
  • Robin (Visitor Centre)
  • Stonechat 
  • Woodcock (Car Park)      
  • Wren (Visitor Centre)
  • Wheatear

Seabirds 

  • Caspian Gull (Burrowes Pit)
  • Great Black-Back Gull (Burrowes Pit and ARC)
  • Herring Gull (Burrowes Pit)
  • Red Throated Diver (Burrowes Pit) 
  • Yellow - legged Gull (Burrowes Pit) 

Corvids

  • Crow 
  • Magpie

Other 

  • Great Crested Newt 
  • Smooth Newt 
  • Water Shrew

Dartford Warbler by Graham Parry