Gadwall, pochard and tufty duckling
A female gadwall was on the pond from the Willow Sphere with 7 ducklings, the first gadwall chicks we have seen onsite in a few years.
A pair of mute swans have hatched 6 cygnets. This swan family have been spotted on the water from Ramsar hide and along the long path. New moorhen chicks and older coot juveniles can be seen as well.
In Pelican Cove a pochard is raising one duckling, similar to what happened here last year and it looks like an oystercatchers are nesting on Pelican island. Also in the cove a female mallard is co-parenting four baby tufted duckings after losing her own brood. Read about it here.
Mallard mum helping raise brood of tufted ducklings at Pelican Cove
Sat 10 June
Lapwing hide: heard a cuckoo
Ramsar and Sand martin hide: 30 sand martins, 2 female lapwing, 18 tufted ducks, 2 pochard, 1 shoveler, 6 gadwall
Scrape hide: 1 shoveler
Arun Riverlife: 15 black headed gulls, 2 pochards, 6 Canada geese, 1 kingfisher
Pelican Cove: 12 tufted ducks including 4 ducklings, 8 mallards including 6 ducklings
Fri 9 June
Woodland Loop: 10 mallards, 3 moorhens, 2 chaffinches, 4 goldfinches, 1 mandarin, 1 robin, 1 nuthatch
Lapwing hide: 1 lapwing chick
Dragonfly and damselfly survey
Black Rabbit triangle: 2 black-tailed skimmers, 1 beautiful demoiselle
Pond at entrance to reedbed: 1 banded demoiselle
Wet grassland: 1 banded demoiselle
Wet meadow: 1 beautiful demoiselle
Pelican Cove: 4 black-tailed skimmer dragonflies
Thurs 8 June
Reedbed: 2 sedge warblers, 1 wren, 5 gadwall, 2 Canada geese, 2 chiff chaff, 12 mallards, 1 robin, 1 reed warbler, 1 goldfinch
Ramsar & sand martin hides: a pair of pochard, 2 oystercatchers,
Pelican Cove: 1 oystercatcher, 1 tufted duck with female mallard and 4 duckling, 3 pochard including 1 duckling
Reedbed: 2 sedge warblers, 1 wren
Wed 7 June
Long path ditch: mute swan pair and 6 cygnets
Willow sphere: 4 gadwall
Scrape hide: 1 Cetti’s warbler, 6 mallard, 4 shoveler, 3 gadwall, 5 tufted ducks, 3 sedge warblers, 1 reed bunting, 1 wren, 4 sand martins, 1 chaffinch, 1 kingfisher, 1 coot, 1 chiff chaff, 1 moorhen, 1 black-headed gull, 1 wood pigeon
Sand martin hide: 1 oystercatcher, 8 tufted ducks, 1 shoveler, 4 pochards, c20 sand martins, 1 shelduck
Waterside walk: 1 tufted duck
Ramsar hide: 19 gadwall, 1 shelduck 2 lapwing, 1 cormorant, 13 tufted ducks, 2 shoveler, and 1 little egret
Wetland Discovery: 1 tufted duck
Lapwing hide: 5 lapwing
Arun Riverlife: 1 kingfisher, 2 tufted ducks
Pelican cove: 3 pochards, 3 tufted ducks and 4 ducklings, pair of oystercatchers on Pelican Island
Trumpeter Swan pond: 1 great spotted woodpecker, 1 male mandarin
Woodland Loop: 6 green finch, 1 male mandarin
Reedbed: 1 mallard, 1 black tailed skimmer dragonfly
Tuesday 6 June
Ramsar hide: 2 mute swans with 6 cygnets, 1 cormorant, 4 shelduck, 2 lapwing, 2 pochard, and c25 sand martins.
Scrape hide: 2 shoveler, 11 tufted ducks, 2 snipe
Long path: Broad bodied chaser dragonfly, 1 Cetti’s warbler, 1 chiff chaff, 6 sedge warbler, 4 reed wrablers
Willow sphere: 1 female gadwall with 7 ducklings
Pelican Cove: 4 pochard, 2 oystercatchers, female tufted duck with four ducklings and a female mallard.
Gadwall ducklings on pond beside the Willow Sphere
Mon 5 June
Lapwing hide: 1 greylag goose, 2 tufted ducks, 4 mallards
Ramsar hide: 1 lapwing, 2 tufted ducks, 5 she ducks, 1 pochard
Sand martin hide: 2 pochard, 5 tufted ducks, 2 mute swans with cygnets
Scrape hide: 3 pochards, 2 she ducks, 4 tufted ducks
Willow sphere: 4 coots, 2 tufted ducks
Pelican Cove: female tufted ducks with 4 chicks, 2 oystercatchers. 3 pochard and one chick
Boat Safari: 1 beautiful demoiselle
Grass snack survey: 4 grass snakes under survey tins
