Hi everyone,
Here is what has been seen around the reserve through March:
Visitor Centre: blue tit, great tit, robin, blackbird, dunnock, chaffinch, greenfinch, pheasant, pigeon, great spotted woodpecker, mallard, peregrine (6 March), sparrowhawk (18 March), fox, rabbit, and brimstone butterfly.
Draper hide: green sandpiper, snipe, redshank (11 and 24 March), lapwing, little ringed plover, teal, gadwall, mallard, tufted duck, pochard, shoveler, shelduck, coot, moorhen, mute swan, Canada goose, greylag goose, grey heron, cormorant, little egret (17 March), little grebe, black headed gull, chiffchaff, cettis warbler, sparrowhawk (female on the 15 and 19 March), kestrel, kingfisher.
Lagoons (Tern and Gadwall hides): little gull (24 March), black headed gull, lesser black backed gull, common gull, Egyptian goose (30 March), grey heron, cormorant, gadwall, mallard, tufted duck, teal, shoveler, shelduck, pochard, little grebe, great crested grebe, pied wagtail, grey wagtail, oystercatcher (two were seen in 15 March), waterrail, green sandpiper, lapwing, and snipe.
Ashby hide: kingfisher, cettis warbler, reed bunting, grey heron, coot, moorhen, gadwall, teal, mallard, little grebe, mute swan and water rail.
Kingfisher hide: kingfisher, teal, gadwall, mallard, great spotted woodpecker, bittern (15 March), chiffchaff (18 March), blackbird, blue tit, great tit, chaffinch, kestrel, coot and moorhen.
Meadow: green sandpiper (20 March), little egret (30 March), peregrine, and a weasel chasing a watervole.
Trails: sedge warbler (first one seen/ heard on 30 March), reed bunting, chiffchaff, cettis warbler, blackcap, dunnock, robin, blackbird, great tit, blue tit, long tailed tit, chaffinch, greenfinch, goldfinch, wren, green woodpecker, great spotted woodpecker, collard dove, pigeon, red kite (x2 on 11 March), grey heron, moorhen, mallard, bee, comma butterfly, brimstone butterfly, peacock butterfly, and watervole.