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Kestrel and Great white egret still around
Our favourite peregrine was posing nicely today one of our car park light poles today. Also still around site is the great white egret who has been popping up around different hides through the day. A black swan is still hanging around the site as well.
27 November 2021
WWT celebrates 75 years & 45 years of Arundel Wetland Centre
From pulling birds back from extinction to creating wonderful new nature friendly habitats - the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust (WWT) celebrates 75 years of ground breaking conservation work and sharing the wonders of wetlands and wetland wildlife. WWT Arun
10 November 2021
Egrets & herons enjoying project mud
The water on the Arundel lagoon project has been drained down slowly, much to the delight of little, cattle and great white egrets who have been helping to de-fish the lake remnants!
8 November 2021
Great egret still onsite this week
A great egret has been onsite for the past week. The low water levels of the Arundel Lagoon project have lured the great egret to the Ramsar and sand martin hides during the day and it has been dropping into Arun Riverlife lagoon in the late afternoons. T
2 November 2021
Lagoon project will restore nesting islands
The Arundel Lagoon project will improve nesting habitat for oystercatchers, ringed plovers and terns at the Sand Martin hide.
31 October 2021
Arundel Wetland Centre joins National Lottery Days Out
Arundel Wetland Centre joins the National Lottery Days Out campaign to offer discounted and free entry this autumn.
28 October 2021
Clouded yellows & migrant hawkers
With daytime temps still in the high teens, on sunny breaks we are seeing migrant hawker dragonflies and common darter dragonflies come out. Checking our Black Rabbit triangle area we spotted a pair of clouded yellow butterflies on Monday!The digger and p
20 October 2021
Bat surveys finishing soon as weather turns colder
Paul Stevens, our former Reserve Manager and licenced Batman, was on site last week to check all of our site bat boxes. In total we found 17 Soprano pipistrelles and one Brown long-eared bat - all roosting and producing a build up of droppings! Two ba
13 October 2021
Green woodpecker & house martins
Today’s sun brought another 50+ house martins through the site on their southward migration. A green woodpecker has been onsite this week as well, usually around Wetland Discovery and the old Tundra pen. A kingfisher has been showing best a Scrape hide
6 October 2021
Water rail, teal & gadwall sightings increase
Teal numbers are increasing with 22 spotted in the morning from the Scrape hide on Saturday. Water rail sightings are increasing this week with sightings on n Arun Riverlife, Wetlands Discovery and at the Scrape hide. (photo above by Romney Turner). Handf
29 September 2021
Kestrel is back, with black caps & warblers
A young male kestrel has been hanging around for the past couple of weeks. He has been spotted on the owl box on Wetlands Discovery, on the roofs of our thatched Outlook In building by the boat jetty and in the Woodland Loop, likely hunting small birds.
23 September 2021
Calm kestrel on Wetlands Discovery
Our Reserve team have been hammering away at the annual autumn cut on the Wetland Discovery area. This means they haven’t had much time for counting many birds this week. Last Wednesday during the mini-heatwave they got help from a great crew of volunte
15 September 2021
Martins moving through & sunny dragonflies
Teal numbers increasing along with the number of house martins (c200 Wednesday!) and sand martins moving through the site. On Monday 30 lapwing were flushed up staff checking the cattle. Our mooing mowers will be moved off the main wet grassland next wee
8 September 2021
Flycatchers & sand martins moving through
Sand martins have been moving through the reserve migrating south to winter in Africa. Over one hundreds sand martins were spotted Monday. Also on their autumn passage are 5 spotted flycatchers spotted on the islands of Wetland Discovery area over the
31 August 2021
What Lurks Beneath this October at Arundel Wetland Centre?
This new trail will provoke shrieks and laughter as families follow the interactive trail to discover the creatures lurking at Arundel Wetland Centre.
30 August 2021