Little grebe & great white egret
On Sunday our Reserve Manager Suzi spotted a little grebe on the water from the Scrape hide.
On Sunday our Reserve Manager Suzi spotted a little grebe on the water from the Scrape hide. A couple of great white egrets are still around this week, on the large lagoon at Ramsar & Sand martin hides and sightings at the Lapwing hide, too. Kingfishers showing well at the Ramsar hide.
The cattle egrets are still feeding young in the nesting tree near the roosting tree between Ramsar and Sand martin hides. Staff and visitors have heard the chicks chattering, especially when food arrives.
Tues 24 September
Ramsar & Sand Martin hide large lagoon: 4 teal, 43 mallards, 1 coot, 3 moorhen, 3 cattle egrets, 2 cormorants, 4 black-headed gull, 4 gadwall, 9 woodpigeon, 1 kingfisher, 2 tufted duck, 10 greylag geese, 2 shovelers, 1 great white egret.
Scrape hide: 2 Cetti’s warblers, 2 teal, 6 shoveler
Reedbed: 1 water rail
Sun 22 September
Wetland Discovery area: 1 kingfisher, 4 blue its, 1 mute swan, 2 mallards, 1 blackbird, 3 robin, 1 Cetti’s warbler, 3 chiff chaffs
Ramsar & Sand Martin hide large lagoon: 3 cattle egrets, 2 great white egrets
Lapwing hide: 1 great white egret
Scrape hide: little grebe.
Sat 21 September
Arun Riverlife: 20 mallrds, 2 coots, 3 black-headed gulls
Ramsar & Sand Martin hide large lagoon: 5 cattle egrets
Fri 20 September
Ramsar & Sand Martin hide large lagoon: 1 kingfisher fishing from fence pins, 12 teal, 5 cattle egrets – 3 flew into the breeding tree 1 carrying food lots of chattering ensued from juveniles
Lapwing hide: 1 great white egret, 2 snipe
Woodland Loop: 6 moorhens, 4 mallards, 8 blue tits, 6 goldfinches, 1 robin, 3 great tits, 2 jackdaws, 6 chaffinch
Thurs 19 September
Wetland Discovery: c50 house martins - high overhead
Ramsar & Sand Martin hide large lagoon: 1 great white egret, 1 Egyptian goose
Scrape Hide:8 shoveler
Reedbed and Willow Sphere: 41 mallards, 3 blue tits, 1 goldfinch, 1 kingfisher – low fly-over of boardwalk, 1 black-headed gull
Wed 18 September
Pelican Cove: 4 mute swans – 1 pair with 2 cygnets
Lakes and Forests exhibit: 1 grey wagtail
Trumpeter Pond: 4 moorhens
Willow Sphere: 2 gadwall, 1 teal
Scrape hide: 8 gadwall, 19 mallards, 1 blue tit, 2 shoveler, 1 goldfinch, 1 chiffchaff 42 greylag geese, 1 moorhen, 1 coot
Old trumpeter pen by Scrape hide: 1 tufted duck
Wildlife Garden: 1 black cap
Sand martin hide: 6 teal, 2 lapwing, 1 gadwall, 2 Egyptian geese, 1 kingfisher
Ramsar & Sand Martin hide large lagoon: 6 cattle egrets, 1 kestrel, 1 great white egret
Lapwing hide: 1 teal.
