Hello All
Despite being very foggy this morning it was well worth a look round the reserve today. There are lots of fallen leaves to kick through, the trees are still looking stunning in there autumn colors, fungi are popping up and cobwebs were sparkling like tiaras with their dew jewels.
Bracket fungi
Spindle
Sightings list 2 November 2015
Mute swan 14, wigeon 8, gadwall 319, teal 107, shoveler 66, tufted duck 10, mallard 18, pochard 2, coot 151, moorhen 59, little grebe 8, lapwing 9 (although a large flock of couple hundred were flushed, probably by a hunting predator, before i got to the Gadwall hide), snipe 14 (again 20 plus seen flying after all flushed from Gadwall hide), green sandpiper 3, water rail, cormorant 12, cettis warbler 5, meadow pipit , skylark, pied wagtail 2, grey wagtail 1, kingfisher, lesser black back, black headed and common gulls, sparrowhawk, starling 187, my first field fare (8 )of the winter, jay, jackdaw, crow, magpie, wood pigeon, green woodpecker, black bird, redwing, wren, chaffinch, green finch, bullfinch (2 female 1 male), goldfinch, blue tit, long tailed tit, robin, wren, gold crest, and the only mammal i saw a grey squirrel.
The mild nights have looked good for moths recently and i am still regularly seeing bats (pipistrelle species) zipping around as i leave work. So i decided to set the moth trap up for emptying on Halloween and was rewarded with 2 new for years from red line quaker 2 and green brindled crescent 5, also in the trap were November moth 3 and 1 acleris varigana.
Green brindled crescent above and below
Red line quaker
November moth
Acleris varigana
Thanks
Vicky