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Monday & Tuesday sightings

Mon 5 Sept Sightings Lapwing hide: teal, Canada geese, pheasants, mallards Ramsar and Sand Martin hides: shoveller ducks, gadwall, mandarin duck, grey heron, mallard. Scrape Hide: grey heron, kingfisher, gadwall, teal, Cetti's warbler. Arun Riverlife lago

6 September 2016

Osprey still showing

Common darters in a mating wheel This morning onsite we spotted: Lapwing hide: grey heron, reed warbler, Canada geese, pheasant Ramsar & Sand Martin Hide: cormorant, common sandpiper, kingfisher, gadwall, teal Scr

30 August 2016

Osprey appearance

A juvenile osprey was sighted fishing at the deep scrape at Arundel Wetland Centre on Sunday. Juvenile ospreys have darker, less distinct head markings and pale edge to their wings. The bird spent the day making low and high passes giving the visitors

22 August 2016

Weekly sightings 22nd July

After some really warm weather the insects have made a noticeable appearance. Star of the show is probably the amount of Red admirals. Other butterflies currently on the wing include Brimstone, Meadow brown, Gatekeeper and Ringlet. Brown hawkers have jo

22 July 2016

Wildlife sightings weekly summary

Birds of prey showing well at the moment with a Buzzard carrying prey to a nest site and a juvenile Peregrine Falcon being very vocal, flying around its parents, begging for a feed over the hanger. Chiffchaff singing through the reedbed boardwalk and Sedg

3 July 2016

Wildlife day walks revealed grass snakes and warblers

This is WWT Arundel Grounds Manager Paul Stevens' weekly column from the Observer series of weekly newspaper from June 22 edition. WE CELEBRATED Sussex Day last Thursday with a series of wildlife walks and talks at Arundel Wetland Centre. I took 14 visito

25 June 2016

June 13 wildife sightings

Toadlets were hatching out of the front pond over the weekend. Around the reserve: Sedge, reed and Cetti’s warblers, reed bunting, great tits, chiff chaff, wren, goldfinch, swallow, bullfinch, green finch, pied wagt

13 June 2016

May 26 Wildlife sightings

Black-headed gull chicks are hatching in the small colony opposite the Sand Martin hide. Photo by Rob Collins Around the grounds: kingfisher, chaffinches, sedge warbler, reed warbler, Cetti's warbler, shelduck, shove

27 May 2016

Hairy dragonflies, busy mason bees & lapwing chicks

Grass snake checks to see if I am friend or foe. This is the May 26 edition of the Wildlife Sightings column by Paul Stevens for the Observer Series of newspapers. A HAIRY dragonfly appeared in our Meadow Maze on Sund

27 May 2016

Wildlife Sightings for May 20

A clutch of shelduck ducklings have hatched out near the Scrape hide. Photo by Russ Tofts Spotted this morning at: The Lapwing Hide: Lapwing, Canada geese, wood pigeon, gadwall, coot, black-headed gull. On Wetlands Di

20 May 2016

Shelducklings hatch, dunlin spotted & great crested grebe returns

A long tailed tit fledgling calls for its lunch in the woodland loop. This is Paul Steven's Wildlife Sightings column for May 19, 2016. You can read Paul’s column every week in the Observer series of newspapers. New

20 May 2016

Wildlife sightings May 17

Greylag geese pair with goslings in tow Sighted at the Lapwing hide: lapwing, greylag geese, reed warbler, moorhen, gadwall, reed bunting. Between the Ramsar and Sand Martin hides: tufted ducks, mute swan, Cana

17 May 2016

Lesser white throat warblings & cuckoo calls

This is Paul Steven’s Wildlife Sightings column for May 12, 2016. You can read Paul's column every week in the Observer series of newspapers. I spotted a lesser white throat again on Sunday (May 8). We have a few singing on site each spring but this is

10 May 2016

Wildlife Sightings May 10

Lots of greylag & Canada goslings about Spotted this morning From the Ramsar and Sand Martin hide: A marsh harrier, black-headed gulls, tufted duck, Canada & greylag geese, shoveller (2), gadwall, lapwings,