Weekend Bits

Reed Warbler- 20+ singing males on site. Also 1-2 Sedge and 3-4 singing Reed Buntings

With 4-5 pairs of Shelduck on site we were hoping for this! Another Mallard brood out on the Northern Lake, at least five Canada Goose broods (too many?) and Great Crested Grebes are displaying on the Southern Lake

Toadflax Brocade- a few moths recently; Angle Shades, Small Seraphim, Knot Grass, Platydera subcinera and Pale Mottled Willow last night

Oedemera nobilis on Dog Rose

Swept a couple of patches of nettles- full of small beetles, spiders and weevils including this one

Also in the nettles

First-summer Yellow-legged Gull (presumably)

First-summer Lesser Black-backed Gull. There are more Lesser Black-backs at the moment than in the winter (many are immature birds like this one). Presumably these are birds (non-breeding immatures or past it adults) that have moved north from Iberia and deciding to hang round here for the summer rather than continue to the core breeding areas.

The Prater brothers re-united!

LNHS group visited today and found some new plants for the site