As with most recent tours, we started at Lower Moor Farm Wiltshire Wildlife Trust
(WWT) reserve and were soon listening and watching a very showy whitethroat
and an equally showy ‘plink, plink, fizz’ reed
bunting.
By the hide we heard garden
warbler, blackcap,
chaffinch
and chiffchaff
singing. After a brief stop in the hide where we mostly watched the four-spotted
chasers, well chasing around, also red-eyed
damselfly and common
blue damselfly. There was also what
was most likely an emperor
dragonfly exuviae on a stick – great stuff!
Red-eyed damselfly |
We started to find more warbler species, as well hear more
of the ones we had picked up earlier. with, cetti’s
warbler and willow
warbler being heard but not seen. Other birds singing included dunnock,
wren,
robin,
blackbird
and song
thrush.
We added blue-tailed
to our damselfly list and the roundhouse-shaped cowshed there was a reed
warbler singing from the reeds, as he should be.
Next, we arrived at Clattinger farm – I should have brought
sun glasses for everyone!
Amongst the plants we saw were cowslip,
green-winged
orchid, early
marsh-orchid, marsh valerian
, bee orchid, burnt-tip
orchid, common
milkwort, bird’s-foot
trefoil, southern marsh orchid and common
spotted-orchid. We also sniffed and tasted pepper saxifrage
and salad burnet.
burnt-tip orchid |
small copper |
Sadly the grass snake had
moved on, but still, what a cracking morning! (NA)
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