Birds: Blackbird, Blue Tit, Common Buzzard, Great Spotted Woodpecker, Whitethroat, Wren.
Butterflies: Comma, Gatekeeper, Green-veined White, Large White, Meadow Brown, Peacock, Ringlet, Small Copper, Small Tortoiseshell, Small White.
Moths: Shaded Broad-bar, Yellow Shell.
Damselflies: Emerald, Large Red.
Dragonflies: Brown Hawker.
Others: Common Frog, Common Toad; Water Vole (droppings).
Flowers: There is currently plenty of Knapweed and Thistle in flower to attract butterflies, and one of the Buddleja is a mass of flowers. Common Hemp-nettle is more abundant than in previous years, mainly in C1; note that we have the white-flowering plants rather than the usual pink-purple ones.
Ogston Sightings
- Saturday 4 May 2024
2 Goldfinch, 7 Tufted Duck, 2 Cormorant, 7 Tufted Duck, 4 Greylag 17 Gosling, 1…
- Friday 3 May 2024
16 Greylag Goose with 22 gosling, 1F Goldeneye, 2 pr Oystercatcher 2 Nests, 40 LBB…
- Thursday 2 May 2024
1 Chiffchaff, 4 Oystercatcher, 1 song Thrush, 2 Teal, 2 GC Grebe, 2 Gadwall, 2…
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