If you wander the trails at the moment you will find many pretty, stripy caterpillars in the phragmites and on the boardwalk.  These are the offspring of the scarce Reed Dagger moth which is in fact very dull and not exactly inspiring to look at!

However there are in important food source to migrant birds and late juvenile Cuckoos are particularly enamoured of them despite the hairs!

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and here is a Cuckoo eating one... taken in 2008 almost to the day by Craig Messenger....

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