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Each season brings a different experience at our nature reserves. In spring, the air is filled with birdsong as they compete to establish territories and attract a mate. In summer, look out for young birds making their first venture into the outside world. Autumn brings large movements of migrating birds - some heading south to a warmer climate, others seeking refuge in the UK from the cold Arctic winter. In winter, look out for large flocks of birds gathering to feed, or flying at dusk to form large roosts to keep warm.
Spring
Avocets and ringed plovers nesting on lagoon, skylarks and corn buntings singing, migrants such as wheatears, yellow wagtails and common sandpipers.
Summer
Avocets on lagoon, brown hares on grassland areas, nesting house and tree sparrows in the nearby buildings and hedgerows.
Autumn
Roosting waders such as knots, dunlins and oystercatchers on the lagoon at high tide. Migrant waders such as greenshanks.
Winter
Large flocks of golden plovers, lapwings and other waders on the saltmarsh and mudflats, dark-bellied brent geese feeding on the saltmarsh, ducks such as wigeons and teals on the lagoon. Birds of prey including short-eared owls, hen harriers and merlins hunting over the saltmarsh.