Recent Reports on the Burgh-by-Sands Wildlife Area:

Late August 2025 visit

Early August 2025 visit

June 2025 visit

May 2025 visit

Apr 2025 visit

Mar 2025 visit

Feb 2025 visit

Many Thanks to Russell Gomm for these ongoing reports

& this gallery of images from the Solway Coastal Area

 

Turkey Tails Fungus:

 

Tiger Beetle:

 

Tachina Grossa (a large fly):

 

Sphagnum Squarrosum (spikey bog moss):

 

Sphagnum Moss:

 

Small Tortoiseshell:

 

Sheltering Barnacles:

 

Scurvey Grass:

 

Scarlet Elf Club Fungus:

 

Saracenia Pitcher plant:

 

Saltmarsh with Criffel in the background:

 

Round-leaved Sundew:

 

Round-leaved Sundew:

 

Otter tracks at Beaumont:

 

Orange Tip:

 

Oak Beauty Moth:

 

Natterjack Toad at Anthorn:

 

Marsh Marigold:

 

Marsh Fritillary:

 

Lousewort & Milkwort:

 

Lichen Cladonia:

 

Large Skipper:

 

Large Heath Butterfly:

 

Lady’s Smock Field:

 

Jelly Brain Fungus:

 

Intermediate Leaved Sundew:

 

Hoverfly:

 

Horsetail Flower Spikes:

 

Heather on Wedholme Flow:

 

Green-veined White:

 

Gorse Flowers:

 

Gooseander with ducklings:

 

Goldeneye:

 

Fruiting Mosses:

 

Frosty Morning:

 

Flying Barnacles:

 

Eyelash Fungus:

 

Emperor Moth Caterpillar:

 

Emerald Damselfly:

 

Drumburgh Moss:

Cranberry:

Cranberry Flowers:

Cotton Grass:

Common Red Damselfly:

Common Emerald:

Common Viviporous Lizard:

Coltsfoot:

Cladonia Lichen:

Buttercup Field at Boustead:

Bog Surface in the Autumn:

Bog Rosemary:

Bog Rosemary:

Bog Bush Cricket:

Bog Asphodel:

Bog Asphodel in the Autumn:

Barn Owl:

Adders on Wedholme:

Female Adder:

A Sawfly Larva:

Ragged Robin:

Oystercatchers nest:

Spiny Restharrow:

Female Banded Demoiselle:

Haircap Mosses: