Bullfinches brighten up December days
A snapshot of sightings from our wardens around the site. (List does not include common garden birds, common birds and common geese.)
Mon 17 Dec
Car park/Outlook In gate: 1 black cap, 1 red wing, bullfinch. Marsh tit.
Black Rabbit triangle: 2 stonechat, 1 water rail, 2 teal, 1 Cetti’s warbler (brief song)
Arun Riverlife lagoon: 4 tufted duck.
Ramsar hide/Sand Martin hide lagoon: 2 grey heron, 33 teal, 18 shelduck, 1 cormorant, 2 wigeon, 12 shoveler, 1 little egret, 2 gadwall, 1 snipe.
Scrape hide: bullfinch, kingfisher, 1 water rail.
Sun 16 Dec (rain)
Ramsar hide: 1 cormorant, 16 shelduck.
Sand martin hide: 1 grey heron, tufted ducks
Trumpeter Pen: Great spotted woodpecker
Scrape hide: little egret, marsh harrier (roost)
Fri 14 Dec
Ramsar hide: 7 teal, 14 shelduck, 1 grey heron
Sand Martin hide: 6 shelduck.
Scrape hide: 1 water rail, 6 shoveler, marsh harrier (roost)
Arun River life: 12 tufted ducks, 1 little egret, 1 cormorant.
Thur 13 Dec
Lapwing hide: grey heron
Scrape hide: water rail, little grebe, marsh harrier (roost)
Arun Riverlife lagoon: 7 pochard, 14 tufted duck, 1 little egret.
Ramsar hide: 10 shoveler, 3 cormorants, 11 teal, 11 shelduck.
Wed 12 Dec
Arun Riverlife lagoon: 4 pochard, 11 tufted duck.
Ramsar/Sandmartin hide lagoon: 30 teal, 9 shelduck, 11 gadwall, 1 grey heron, 3 cormorants 2 pochard, 6 common gull, 15 snipe, 1 water rail, 2 tufted.
Scrape hide: 3 gadwall, 1 kingfisher, 1 great spotted woodpecker, marsh harrier (roost)
Tues 11 Dec
Ramsar hide: teal, 2 grey heron, 2 shoveler, 1 little egret, 2 cormorants.
Lapwing hide: 2 teal, 2 grey heron.
Sand martin hide: 2 teal, 12 shelduck, 4 tufted ducks, 9 shoveler, 1 little grebe.
Scrape hide: kingfisher, teal, marsh harrier (roost), 4 gadwall.
Reedbed: teal, great spotted woodpeckers, kingfisher.
