Lapwing, teal & gadwall numbers back up after the thaw
Now that our waterways have thawed lapwing numbers are back up with the highest count 120 last Saturday.
We’ve pochards onsite too – on Arun Riverlife, Pelican Cove and Wetland Discovery. A pair of pochard nested on Pelican Cove last year so we are keeping an eye on those currently onsite.
Good numbers of teal and gadwall this week with temperatures warming. A great white egret has been onsite since the weekend as well.
Tues 31 Jan
Ramsar & Sand martin hides: 1 grey heron, 83 lapwings, 2 snipe, 8 pochards, 23 Canada geese, 22 teal, 37 gadwall, 13 shelducks, 3 mute swans, 35 black-headed gulls, 2 common gulls, 17 mallards, 20 shovelers, 8 mandarin ducks, 12 coots, 1 moorhen, 2 Egyptian geese, 6 cormorants.
Pelican Cove: 2 pochards
Wood Lop: 1 water rail
Scrape hide: 1 great white egret, 1 lapwing on Fen cut, 2 snipe on fen cut
Boat Safari waterways: 5 pochard
Mon 30 Jan
Lapwing hide: 2 mallards, 2 Canada geese, 1 moorhen, 1 pheasant
Boat Safari waterways: 2 pochards
Pelican Cove: 2 pochard
Willow Screen: 1 water rail
Scrape hide: 1 pochard, 4 snipe, and 2 shelducks
Ramsar & Sand martin hides: 3 pochard, 3 wigeon, 11 snipe, 68 lapwing, 10 shelducks.
Sun 29 Jan
Arun Riverlife lagoon: 6 pochards, 1 kingfisher
Pelican cove: 4 pochards
Boat Safari waterways: 3 coots, 7 tufted ducks, 1 pheasant, 32 great tits, 2 blue tits, 2 black-headed gulls, 7 mallards, 1 green woodpecker flew over from Waterside Walk, 4 Canada geese
Ramsar & Sand martin hides: 1 shelduck, 106 lapwing, 7 Egyptian geese, 26 common gulls, 12 snipe, 1 pochard, and 1 great white egret.
Sat 28 Jan
Scrape hide: 14 shovelers, 2 shelducks
Ramsar & Sand Martin hides: 14 shelducks, 3 wigeon, 120 lapwings, 2 snipe, 1 common gull.
Arun Riverlife lagoon: 24 mallards, 6 Canada geese, 2 pochards, 4 tufted ducks, 3 greylag geese, 1 pheasant, 1 coot, 1 moorhen, 1 gadwall, 29 black-headed gulls.
Fri 27 Jan
Wood Loop: 7 blue tits, 4 great tits, 2 pheasants, 3 blackbirds, 4 robins, 2 moorhens, 5 chaffinches, 1 marsh tits, 1 coal tit, 4 mallards, 1 dunnock, 1 great spotted woodpecker, 3 greenfinch, 2 gold finches, 1 buzzard
Ramsar & Sand martin hides: 42 lapwing, 16 shelducks, 3 Egyptian geese, 7 snipe, and 3 pochards.
Thurs 26 Jan
Willow screen: 12 mallards, 2 gadwall, 1 robin
Reedbed boardwalk: 3 mallards, 1 back bird, 1 blue tits, 2 great tits, 1 woodpigeon
Arun Riverlife: 1 pochard
Wood Loop: 1 coal tit
Ramsar & Sand martin hide: 68 lapwing, 2 wigeon, and 3 snipe
Scrape hide: 2 snipe
Wed 25 Jan
Car Park: 1 tree creepers, 1 kestrel
Scrape hide: 2 moorhens, 2 shelducks, 1 grey heron, and 1 great tits
Arun Riverlfe lagoon: 3 pochards
Ramsar & Sand Martin hides: 18 shelducks, 20 Egyptian geese
