Three goosanders drop in
Sightings from morning wardens walks for the week of Oct 29-Nov 4
Mon Oct 29
Arun Riverlife Lagoon: 14 tufted duck, 2 shelduck, 1 little egret.
Scrape hide: 3 gadwall.
Ramsar haide: 9 shoveler, 3 shelduck.
Lapwing hide: 2 snipe.
Reedbed hide: bullfinch.
Tues 30 Oct
Ramsar hide/Sand Martin hide: 4 shelduck, 24 shovelerm 2 gadwall, 1 little egret.
Scrape hide: 2 ghadwall.
Woodland Lodge hide: 10 goldfinches, 1 chaffnch, 1 great tit.
Wetlands Discovery: teal.
Wed 31 Oct
Woodland Lodge: 7 goldfinches.
Scrape hide: 5 longtailed tits, 3 Cetti’s warbler, 1 goldfinch, 1 snipe.
Wildlife garden:11 goldfinches, 1 bullfinch.
Ramsar hide: 4 snipe.
Wetlands Discovery: 2 water rail, tufted ducks.
Lapwing hide: 8 snipe.
Thurs 1 Nov
Ramsar hide: 1 grey heron, 1 kingfisher, 17 snipe.
Ramsar/Sand Martin hides: 11 shoveler ducks, 8 shelducks, 2 teal, 4 common gull, 1 little grebe.
Lapwing hide: 18 snipe.
Scrape Hide: 1 bullfinch, 8 shoveler, 5 gadwall, 2 cormoramt, 2 kingfishers, 2 chiffchaff, 5 long-tailed tit, 1 little grebe, 1 pied wagtail, 1 water rail, 1 kestrel.
Wood Loop: 1 coal tit, 1 mistle thrush.
Arun Riverlife lagoon: tufted duck, 13 teal, 1 kingfisher.
Friday 2 Nov
Wetlands Discovery: 1 kingfisher, tufted ducks, 1 Cetti’s warbler
Ramsar /Sand Martin hides: 4 snipe, 8 shelducks, 2 gadwall, 1 little egret, 9 shoveler, 1 grey heron, 48 common gull.
Scrape hide: 2 gadwall.
Arun riverlife lagoon: 1 water rail, tufted duck.
Sat 3 Nov
Ramsar /Sand Martin hides: 8 snipe, 1 little egret, 1 grey heron, 7 shelduck, 1 kingfisher, 10 shoveler, 3 gadwall, 1 pintail.
Scrape hide:7 shoveler, 6 teal, 5 gadwall, 1 little grebe.
Reedbeds: Cetti’s warbler, 200+ pied wagtail 4.30 pm, 8 marsh harriers 4.30 pm and later.
Sun 4 Nov
Reedbed: 1 kestrel, pied wagtail roost.
Offham hagar: 1 raven, 3 buzzards
Ramsar hide: 5 shoveler 3 gadwall, 5 shelduck, 6 shoveler, 3 goosander, 200 common gull, 4 snipe.
Lapwing hide: 4 snipe.
Arun Riverlife lagoon: 4 teal.
Pied wagtail roost, late afternoons: Pied wagtails have been gathering on the roof of the visitors centre (200+ some days)up to 4.30pm. From there they take to the air en masse to roost in the reedbed.
