Kingfishers are checking out the nesting bank
Lapwings and oystercatchers getting ready to nest and kingfisher have been spotted at the Arun Riverlife nesting bank .
Lapwings look to be settling in at the Lapwing and Ramsar hides. A pair have been on the cut central part of the island to the right of the cafe windows on the Arun Riverlife lagoon. Oystercatchers have been checking out the gravel island on Arun Riverlifeand the roof of the Sand Martin hide - where they nested last year. Most exciting - Reserve Manager Paul Stevens has spotted a pair of kingfishers checking out the nesting holes in the artifical kingfisher bank on Arun Riverlife lagoon! We've been waiting eight years - will this be the year they nest there?
Wildlife sightings on the morning warden's walk around:
Monday 23 March
Lapwing Hide
Greylag goose 6
Canada goose 12
Lapwing 3
Teal 4
Shovler 1
Coot 3
Moorhen 1
Ramsar/ Sand Martin Hide
Mediterranean gull 5
Lapwing 2
Wetland Discovery Channels
Pochard 3
Woodland loop
Nuthatch 1
Scrape Hide
Pochard 2
Arun Riverlife Lagoon
Pochard 4
Lapwing 1
