Swallows, sand and house martins still moving through
Recent sightings:
Mon 3 Sept:
Wildlife Garden - 30 house martins
Sand martin hide - 5 Sand martins
Common Sandpiper – SMH
Scrape hide - 25 gadwall
Reedbed hide – swallows
Tues 4 Sept:
Ramsar – house martins 40.
Scrape hide – 10 house martins, 20 gadwall.
Wildlife Garden – 15 house martins.
Sand Martin Hide – 10 sand martins.
Wed 5 Sept:
Wetlands Discovery – 50+ House martins, kingfisher.
Ramsar hide – common sand piper
Snadmartin hide – grey heron, 15 sand martins.
Wildlife garden – 10 swallows.
Reedbed hide – 3 swallows.
Scrape hide – 55 gadwall, little egret, 15 house martins, 25 sand martins, 2 wigeom, 4 teal, kingfisher, grey heron, 4 shoveler, 1 marsh harrier.
Ramsar hide: 4 shoveler.
Common Lizard - Next to gate
Thurs 6 Sept:
Arun Riverlife – 2 shoveler
Scrape hide - 16 gadwall
Arun Riverlife – 5 swallows, 30 house martins, 25 sand martins.
World Wetlands – massing swallows, house martins and sand martins moving through the reserve 100s.
Fri 7 Sept
Ramsar hide – grey heron
Sand martin hide – kingfisher
Sand martin hide – 16 swallows
Scrape hide – 15 gadwall
Sat 8 September
Black Rabbit Triangle – Cetti’s Warbler, stoat, marsh harrier.
Offham hangar - black caps, song thrush.
Ramsar hide – marsh tit, mandarin, 84 teal, 3 shovelers, tufted duck, cormorant, 1 snipe, 2 common sand piper, kingfishers, 12 sand martins,
Scrape hide – snipe, 30 gadwall, 1 wigeon.
Trumpeter exhibit – kingfisher.
Wetlands Discovery – garden warbler.
Sand martin hide – firecrest (entrance), 2 gadwall, 1 shoveler, 1 common sand piper, kingfisher, 1 common gull.