Juvenile kingfishers around
Kingfisher fledglings were still on Arun Riverlife lagoon last week practicing their fishing, showing well from the Discovery hide.
Kingfisher sightings were also at the Scrape hide and on the Wetland Discovery boat channels.
Wildflowers: water mint, purple loosestrife, fleabane, herb robert, hemp agrimony.
Sun 3 September
Sand Martin and Ramsar hides: 20 black headed gulls, 1 tufted duck
Scrape hide: 4 gadwall, 2 shoveler
Wetland Discovery: 1 kingfisher, 3 tufted ducks, 11 mallards, 1 Cetti’s warbler, 1 green woodpecker.
Arun Riverlife: 21 coots, 2 moorhen, 2 kingfisher, 3 mute swans, 6 mallards
Sat 2 September
Arun Riverlife lagoon: pair of mute swan and cygnet, 18 coots, 44 mallards, 5 black-headed gulls, 1 wren
Sand martin hide: 2 common sand pipers
Wetland Discovery: 1 pochard
Reedbed hide: 1 reed bunting
Friday 1 September
Wood Loop: 2 robins, 8 mallards, 1 mandarin, 1 moorhen, 3 long-tailed tits, 7 chaffinch, 4 blue tits
Wetland Discovery area: 1 pochard
Thurs 31 August
Scrape hide: 1 kingfisher
Reedbed hide: 3 woodpigeon, 1 Cetti’s warbler
Reedbed boardwalk: 1 wren, 1 wren, 2 mallards, 2 long-tailed tits
Willow sphere: 1 moorhen, 12 mallards, 2 gadwal, 1 crow, 1 robin, 1 blackbird, 2 blue tits
Wed 30 August
Scrape hide: 1 robin, 1 wren, 1 chiff chaff, 1 kingfisher, 2 coots, 6 mallards, 7 gadwall, 3 wood pigeon, 2 black cap, 1 reed warbler, 1 green woodpecker, 1 blackbird, 2 shoveler, 1 greenfinch, 1 moorhen, 2 blue tits, 1 grey heron.
Ramsar hide: 1 little egret, 1 1 mandarin, 1 common sand pipers
Arun Riverlife: 3 mute swans
Pelican Cove: 1 tufted duck, 1 gadwall
Woodland pond: 1 black cap
Woodland Loop: 2 chiffchaff
Willow Screen: 3 gadwall
