Spring birds on the nest
A female mallard with 6 ducklings in tow was spotted on the Wet Grassland on Monday. Moorhen chicks have also been spotted on a ditch behind our duckery. A pair of pergrines have been spotted on the Offham hangar, likely the pair that annually nest on the hangar. Lapwings are sitting on nests on the wet grassland.
A lapwing on a nest in spring on the wet grassland at Arundel.
Fri 29 March
Sand Martin hide: 1 snipe, 3 pochards, 16 shoveler ducks, 2 kingfishers on perch poles,
Ramsar hide: 1 lapwing
Offham hangar: 2 peregrine (a pair) over the hangar.
Woodland loop: 3 wren, 2 chiff chaff, 4 chaffinch, 2 moorhen,14 mallards, 1 mandarin duck, 1 green finch, 3 goldfinches
Wed 27 March
Reedbed boardwalk: Great tit 2, 2 chiff chaff, 9 mallards, 7 greylag geese, 2 Canada geese, 4 blue tit, 1 pochard, 3 mallards, 1 reed bunting, 1 chiff chaff
Sand martin hide: 280 common gulls, 25 black-headed gull, 2 oystercatchers, 130 common gulls, 6 lapwing
Ramsar hide: 2 cattle egrets, 4 lapwing
Lapwing hide: 1 lapwing, 1 grey heron, 2 barnacleXcackling geese
Wetland Discovery: 1 pochard,
Arun Riverlife lagoon: 2 oystercatcher, 2 pochards,
Willow sphere: mute swan on nest, 2 tufted ducks, 1 mandarin, 1 mallard, 1 Cetti's Warbler, 2 blue tits, 2 blackbirds
Scrape hide: 9 tufted ducks, 5 greylag geese, 6 pochard, 13 black-headed gulls, 5 Canada geese, 7 mallard, 1 Cetti's warbler, 1 chiff chaff, 3 gadwall, 4 teal
Wetland Discovery: 3 pochards
Tues 26 March
Wetland Discovery: 1 grey heron, 3 pochards
Sand martin & Ramsar hides: 18 shoveler, 6 lapwing, 9 teal, 2 Egyptian geese, 9 tufted ducks, 35 Canada geese, 1 CanadaXgreylag, 9 greylag geese, 2 cormorants, 3 coots, 7 mallard, 13 common gulls, 78 black-headed gulls, 4 pochards, 2 gadwall, 4 Sand Martins, 1 chiff chaff, 2 Cetti’s warbler
Scrape hide: 2 pochards
Lapwing hid: 4 lapwing, 1 grey heron
Reedbed: 1 tree creeper
Mon 25 March
Arun Riverlife: 2 Egyptian geese, 2 pochard
Wet grassland: 1 Cetti’s warbler, 4 Canada geese, 2 coots, 6 mallards, 1 teal, 4 gadwall, 2 greylag geese, 2 moorhens, 1 chiff chaff, 1 lapwing, 2 tufted ducks, 1 female mallard with 6 mallards ducklings, 2 crackling geese.
Ramsar: 5 lapwing, 2 oystercatchers, 22 common gull, 2 pochards, 1 kingfisher, 1 Cetti’s warbler
Wildlife garden: 1 Cetti’s warbler
Sand martin hide: 2 shelducks
Scrape hide: 4 pochards
Reedbed: 4 greylag geese
