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Latest sightings - May 2009

The following records are taken from entries in the sightings book which is located in the Visitor Centre. Reports of sightings can also be submitted by e-mail to wickenfen@nationaltrust.org.uk

July 10
June 10 | May 10 | Apr 10 | Mar 10 | Feb 10 | Jan 10
Dec 09 | Nov 09 | Oct 09 | Sept 09 | Aug 09 | July 09
June 09 | May 09 | Apr 09 | Mar 09 | Feb 09 | Jan 09
Dec 08 | Nov 08 | Oct 08 | Sept 08 | Aug 08 | July 08
June 08 | late May 08 | early May 08 | Apr 08 | Mar 08 | Feb 08 | Jan 08
Dec 07 | Nov 07 | Oct 07 | Sept 07 | Aug 07 | July 07

Date

Species

 Note

20/5 Little egret x 20
Cuckoo x 3
Turtle dove x 3
Bakers Fen
  Bittern booming  
21/5 Redshank x 3
Marsh harrier pair
Kingfisher
Hobby
Cuckoo
Water vole
Early marsh orchid
Four-spotted chaser
Southern hawker
Emperor butterfly
Common blue damselfly
Large red damselfly
Blue tailed damselfly
Kestrel and young
 
22/5 Various bumblebees
Barn owl
On white comfrey
-
23/5 Green woodpecker
Reed warbler
Cetti's warbler
Sedge warbler
Blackcap
Garden warbler
Cuckoo
Brimstone butterfly
Peacock butterfly
Stoat
 
  Bittern booming x 3
Little egret x 20+
Cuckoo 4 male, 4 female
Turtle dove 3 male
Reed warbler x 9
Sedge warbler x 6
Cetti's warbler x 6
 
  Variable damselflies
Azure damselflies
Blue tailed damselflies
Red eyed damselflies
Four spot chaser
Hairy dragonfly
Emperor dragonfly
 

24/5

Turtle dove
Cuckoos
Dunlin x 3
Hobby x 4

 

  Squacco heron
Little egrets x 9
Redshanks
Charlie Foster Hide
  Hobby
Marsh harrier
Turtle dove
Bittern booming
Adventurers Fen
  Roe deer  
  Bumblebees: lots of Common carder bee workers and 2 queens,
Several early bumblebees,
Cuckoo bee
Buff or red tailed queen
 
25/5 Poplar hawkmoth
King cup white water lilies
Marsh orchids
 
  Little grebe x 5
Squacco heron
Heron x 8
Little egret x 9
Greylag x 15
Canada geese x 9
Shelduck x 3
Mallard x 45
Gadwall x 7
Shoveler x 7
Bakers Fen
  Painted lady butterfly x 4 Waterproof Bank
  Garden warbler
Kingfisher
Tower Hide
  Squacco heron
Little egret
Marsh harrier
Hobby x 4
Cuckoos
Kingfisher
Bakers Fen

Vernal & Adventurers Fen
Adventurers Fen
The Mere
  Avocet x 6
Redshank x 6
Tubney Mere
26/5 Squacco heron  
27/5 Squacco heron Bakers Fen
28/5 Squacco heron Bakers Hide
  Painted lady butterflies x 25
Brimstones x 10
 
29/5 Hen harrier Sedge Fen
  Hairy dragonflies
Four spotted chaser
Red eyed dragonfly
Variable dragonfly
Turtle dove
Cuckoo
 
  Squacco heron
Kingfisher
Whitethroat
Bakers Fen Hide
Sedge Fen
Spinney Bank
  Large grass snake Swimming by wind pump
30/5 Barn owl
Green woodpecker
Bittern booming
Cetti's warbler
 
  Two yearling roe deer
Several egrets
Distant booming bitterns
Bakers Fen
31/5 Squacco heron
Cranes x 2
Bakers Fen
near Upware
  Hairy dragonfly
Four-spotted chaser
Large red damselfly
Azure damselfly
Blue tail damselfly
Dipping ponds and Sedge Fen near Hide
  Hobby Hunting over Moore's Drove
  Avocet Bakers Fen
  Barn owl with vole WTVC


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