When we got there, we could immediately see the potential. Loads of marshy fields everywhere, in addition to the main lagoons which were overlooked by 3 main hides. We could hear various types of birds chirping and warbling in the bushes, and the waders in the lagoons were making plenty of noise as well. Here's some photos of the lagoons:
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| Goldcliff Lagoons | Goldcliff Lagoons |
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| Goldcliff Lagoons | Goldcliff Lagoons |
There were plenty of various types of water birds while were visiting. The one type of extremely numerous wader we were able to identify with our binoculars were the black-tailed godwits. Also there were plenty of little egrets about, and a few grey herons here and there. There were certainly more waders than we could easily identify, perhaps next time we'll take the spotting scope :)
There was one bird that we improved our photo on, which is the lovely little chiffchaff. We did hear a few making some "chiffchaffchiff" sounds in the bushes, along with various other warblers, which I hadn't heard since Spring. Here's the new photo:
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There were also various insects of note about, including some of the biggest dragonflies I'd ever seen. They (as far as I could tell) were all exclusively Common Hawkers. A large variety of males, but not as many females about. There were also good numbers of Common Darters about as well, both sexes. Other insects of note were hoverflies, in addition to: red admiral, large white, little tortoiseshell, and small copper butterflies. Also a new moth (for us) was spotted by Mark, which has been ID'ed as a Silver Y moth. Here are a few photos of the insects we saw:
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| Small Copper (M) | Silver Y Moth | Common Hawker (M) |
-Jen-
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