This last week I have seen a bit of wildlife that, although I’ve seen before, are not ones I see regularly. Some are more welcome than others.

One of these I hope I will not see again , I am hoping it was just passing through, this is an American Mink. It was spotted swimming on Woggle water pond and then later moved down to Dunces Corner Pond. My hope is that it has moved on as the sighting was on Saturday and I have not seen it since.

A more welcome sighting was a Water Shrew that appeared at the hide a Dunces Corner. It popped out the dry stone wall to have a feed on some bird seed I’d put out for our family of voles.

I also had a visit from a Willow Tit at the feeding station, I had not seen one for over a year. So lets hope they are coming back to the reserve. We also caught and ringed a Willow Tit up at Dunces Corner on Wednesday. It may be the same one but more likely there is more than one in the area (fingers crossed).