Our visitors and volunteer wardens have reported the following recently:
Around the car park and along the bridleway: buzzard, herons with nesting material, goosander (on the silt pool, with a nearby heron), grey wagtail, jay, kingfisher (in a play meadow pool), redwing, teal (in the horse grazing field pool), peregrine (in the horse grazing field), song thrush (calling), treecreeper. Large flocks of woodpigeons.
Fishers Mill lakes: pochard, shoveler, teal, wigeon and the usual residents – coot, mallard, moorhen, tufted duck. Mute swan are choosing their safe quiet areas.
At the northend: kestrel, dunlin, oystercatcher, ringed plover, green sandpiper, little egret, redshank, reed bunting, shelduck.
Around the cow meadow: redwing, skylark.
Mammals: hares have been seen and there's fresh mole hill activity about.
Wild flowers: colt's-foot (in flower at the northend), ramsons (the garlic-onion aroma follows you along the bridleway), dog's-mercury (small samples seen along bridleway).