Oystercatcher pair about
A pair of oystercatchers are appearing regularly at the Sand martin hide and the old Tundra pen on the corner. They have nested at both sites in previous years so this may be that same pair. Kingfishers have been using the perch in front of the Sand martin hide as well as using the Arun Riverlife nesting bank. Is it the same pair or are their two?
Lots of common gull and Mediterranean gulls around and a few black backed gulls in the mix this week. The great egret was still around last weekend but hasn’t been spotted for a few days.Lapwing have been sighted daily on the wet grassland from the Ramsar hide.
Wed 30 March
Scrape hide:15 Canada geese, 4 greylag geese, 2 shelducks, 3 pochards, 6 shoveler, 5 mallards, 4 tufted ducks, 12 black-headed gulls 1 coot, 2 moorhens, 1 Cetti’s warbler, 1 teal, 1 snipe, 1 wren.
Arun Riverlife: 4 pochard, 1 kingfisher
Pelican Cove: 2 pochard
Wetland Discovery: 1 pochard
Ramsar and Sand martin hide: 1 pochard, 12 Mediterranean gulls, 1 oystercatcher, 1 black-backed gull, 2 lapwing, 7 teal, 1 cormorant
Old Tundra pen: 2 oystercatchers
Lapwing hide: 1 lapwing
Tues 29 March
Ramsar & Sand martin hide: 10 mallards, 2 oystercatchers, 23 Canada geese, 22 black-headed gulls, 2 black-backed gull, 3 common gulls, 1 mute swan, 2 greylag geese, 14 shoveller, 1 shelduck, 2 moorhens, 2 coots, 1 tufted duck, 1 lapwing
Scrape hide: 1 pochard
Arun Riverlife: 1 lapwing, 1 kingfisher
Mon 28 March
Lapwing hide: 1 lapwing mobbing a crow, 3 mallards, 3 pheasants, 2 wood pigeon, 3 Canada geese, 2 greylag geese, 1 snipe
Sand Martin hide: 2 oystercatchers, 1 kingfisher
Scrape: 1 lapwing
Reedbed: 1 kingfisher
Arun Riverlife: 10 pochard, 1 kingfisher
Ramsar hide: 3 grey heron, 1 lapwing, 2 pochards
Sun 27 March
Wetland Discovery: 9 mallards, 1 pochard, 1 coot, 7 Canada geese, 2 black-headed gulls, 4 tufted ducks, 1 pheasant, I Cetti’s warbler, 1 chiff chaff
Arun Riverlife: 8 pochards, 1 lapwing
Sand martin hide: 2 oystercatchers, 2 kingfishers
Ramsar hide: 2 lapwings, 2 lesser black-backed gull
Offham hangar: 1 peregrine
Scrape hide: 5 pochard
Sat 26 March
Arun Riverlife: 2 mute swans, 18 mallards, 4 Canada geese, 2 greylag geese, 4 pochard, 11 tufted ducks, 19 black-headed gulls, 2 gadwall, 2 shoveler, 2 moorhen, 2 coots, 2 lapwing, 2 kingfishers
Pelican Cove: 2 oystercatchers
Lapwing hide: 3 lapwings (2 male one female)
Ramsar and Sand martin hides: 2 lapwing displaying, 1 great white egret, 20 Mediterranean gulls, 100 common gulls, 2 kingfishers on perch
Offham hangar: 1 goshawk