Another good couple of days for wildlfie on site. Highlights include -
Thursday 15th November
450 pink-footed geese over flying north-west in 3 separate skeins
another 10,000 strong starling roost
800 golden plover moving over the reserve
and the warm and sunny weather brought out a butterfly - a very worn specimen of either a red admiral or peacock was seen disappearing into the scrub on Phase 1.
And today (Friday 16th November)
1 peregrine over Phase 1
roe deer in the distance on Phase 3
7000 starlings in the roost on silt lagoon 6
hundreds of fieldfares moving over at dusk
and perhaps the star of the week (or not, does it rival the waxwings - you decide!)....a great white egret flew north over Phase 1 at 16.30 this evening. This is the second record for the site after the first in May this year - fantastic!
Great white egret image courtesy of Mike Langman (rspb-images.co.uk)