Weekly wild news from our reserves - 17 June 2022
It's been an exciting week across our reserves, with pochard ducklings and garganey at Trimley Marshes, female marsh harriers clashing at Castle Marshes, swift eggs hatching at Lackford Lakes…
It's been an exciting week across our reserves, with pochard ducklings and garganey at Trimley Marshes, female marsh harriers clashing at Castle Marshes, swift eggs hatching at Lackford Lakes…
It's the season for wildflowers and insects galore. Our reserve teams have seen a variety of orchids, moths, a snipe fly, a wasp beetle, a long horn moth and lots more...
June is a great time of year to witness all sorts of wildlife that we have at Lackford Lakes. It is not just the birds that flying around the reserve, we have plenty of dragonflies, damselflies…
This week our reserve wardens saw a tiny fawn, amorous bugs, a dazzling ruby tailed wasp and beautiful wildflowers including water violet, cotton grass, flag iris and lots more...
This week has been packed full of wildlife, with hobbies, water voles, marsh harriers and a bittern. Also exciting insects including a green hairstreak butterfly, drinker moth, four spotted…
This week more special wildlife was recorded, with rare shepherd's cress, a ringed China-mark moth, turtle dove and nightingale. Also woodland wildflowers and orchids were seen, and a grass…
It was a week of rare and unusual wildlife, with a snorkelling stick insect, first record of a wall brown, soprano pipistrelle bats, nightingale melodies and luscious woodland flowers...
This week our reserve teams spotted more marvellous spring wildlife, with reptiles and amphibians breeding and basking, skylarks singing and a first black tern. They also installed cattle gates,…
It certainly now feels like spring at Lackford with many of our warblers now back at the lakes. As you wander around you will hear lots of blackcap, chiffchaff, whitethroat etc. singing away so…
This week our reserve teams recorded gorgeous signs of spring across the county, with a cuckoo and a cuckooflower, a grasshopper warbler and woodland wildflowers. They also discovered some amazing…