Red wings on the long path this week
The lagoon between the Ramsar hide and the Sand martin hide is THE spot for snipe now with 19 recorded there on Tuesday morning. Teal numbers remain strong and a handful of lapwing are showing up on site each day. Look out for stonechats, redwings and goldcrests among the small birds onsite along with green woodpeckers and kingfishers showing well.
Red wing photo by Romney Turner
Mon 7 Dec
Lapwing hide: 1 pheasant
Ramsar hide / Sand Martin hide: 5 lapwing, 13 wigeon, 12 snipe.
Tue 8 Dec
Ramsar hide / Sand martin hides: 3 mute swans, 40 Canada geese, 10 greylag geese, 19 snipe, 34 teal, 4 pintail, 4 tufted ducks, 1 cot, 2 gadwall, 12 shelducks, 2 cormorants, 5 shoveler, 12 mallards, 30 black-headed gulls, 1 water rail, 4 lapwing, 2 wigeon.
Lapwing hide: 2 green woodpecker, 2 stonechats
Wed 9 Dec
Ramsar hide: 39 snipe, 1 bullfinch, 1 water rail,
Sand martin hide: 2 goldcrests, 1 snipe.
Scrape hide: 7 shovelers, 2 shelducks, 16 mallards, 3 snipe, 2 teal.
Sat 12 Dec
Front pond: 3 goldcrests
Arun Rverlife lagoon: 2 cormorants, 1 grey heron, 2 gadwall, 52 mallards, 1 coot, 1 moorhen, 2 pochard ducks, 33 Canada geese, 9 greylag geese
Lapwing hide: 16 teal, 2 water rail, 1 grey heron
Ramsar hide / Sand martin hide: 46 teal, 25 snipe, 10 lapwing, 2 kingfishers, 2 wigeon.
Long path: 7 red wings, 1 green woodpecker.
Wildlife sightings are based on a morning count by staff, every area of the site is not recorded every day.
