Hello All
What a lovely day to be be out.
A good count of 11 green sandpipers on the Draper scrape this morning which had increased to 12 this afternoon. Also on the Draper today a little egret, grey heron, 4 lapwing, some recently fledged common terns along with a little grebe family.
The water voles are eating us out of house and home with the apples put out yesterday all gone bar a few bits of skin left on the platform. Plenty of butterfly and dragonfly activity today as well with brown hawkers zipping around, speckled wood, peacock, common blue, small tortoiseshell, and common blue damselfly to name a few.
The volunteer work party was working near the Ashby hide today and i had a look in the raised pond and found loads of caddis larvae in various cases, along with water boatman, back swimmers, water shrimp, pond skaters and water beetles. The caddis were very active and i managed to capture a video
If you are interested in pond creatures and minibeasts we have a range of activity days over the next month allowing you to delve in to Rye Meads (30 July, 7, 18, 19 and 25 August) see events page www.rspb.org.uk/reserves/guide/r/ryemeads/events.aspx for more information or ring the reserve on 01992 708383.
Thanks
Vicky