Mallards and Gadwalls are currently the commonest surface feeding ducks.

Interesting sightings during the first half of August.

Hedgehogs in my garden for the last two years.

This late visit was to accommodate a Cormorant roost count in conjunction with the Nation Wildfowl Count for the month of August.

A great sighting in Wingerworth

Front garden sighting.

The first Golden Plover of the autumn.

Great Crested Grebe have bred late on the reserve.

A humming-bird hawk-moth seen at Gang Mine

The low water levels in the ponds clearly suit this species.