Lovely day on the reserve - very warm -nice and cool in the hides
excellent start as we walked across the first bridge a water vole was spotted
we spent a good five minutes watching it munching on some vegetation, very noisily I might add
Draper Hide
Large numbers of Gadwall
Pochard - Tufted Duck - Shoveler
Single male Teal
Little ringed plover
Little Grebe on family with young
Stock Dove - Lapwing - Magpie - Heron
Swans with 5 young
Black headed gulls - Common Tern
Coot - Moorhen
Green Sandpiper also seen in the afternoon
Trails
Chaffinch - Great tit - Blue tit - Dunncock
Robin - Cettis (H)
Canada Geese with young
Magpie - Jay
Lagoon Hides
Black headed gulls on all rafts with chicks
Common Tern on rafts -showing well on new large raft one nest today had 3 eggs clearly visible
Reed Warbler - Little Grebe
Tufted Duck - Pochard - Cormorant - Coot several nests from tern hide - Moorhen
Kingfisher Hide
Kingfisher seen by other visitors going into new hole in bank
Kestrel Chick sitting on top box on the pylon
Warbler Hide
Hobby - Buzzard
Heron several flying and around in the meadow
Reed Warbler - Sedge Warbler - Reed Bunting all showing well
Also lots of Damselflies and Dragonflies insects and butterflies around