Water rails and green woodpecker near Scrape hide
Snapshot of recent sightings from around the reserves by our wardens (common species like mallards, greylag and Canadian geese and common garden birds are not listed here):
Sun 9 Dec
Ramsar hide: 31 snipe, 3 pochard
Reedbed hide : 2 little grebe
Arun Riverlife: 4 pochard
Scrape hide: 10 marsh harriers (roost)
Sand martin hide: brown long-eared bat (hibernating)
Sat 8 Dec
Ramsar hide: 33 teal, 12 tufted duck, 30 snipe, 9 shoveler, 1 lapwing, 1 reed bunting.
Scrape hide: water rail, 3 little grebe.
Fri 7 Dec
Scrape hide: 4 shelducks
Sand martin: 9 shelducks, 21 tuifted ducks, 4 pochard, 1 little egret, 7 teal.
Arun Riverlife: 4 pochard, 1 little egret, 1 cormorant
Ramsar hide: 14 teal, 1 little grebe.
Thurs 6 Dec
Arun Riverlife: 2 little grebes.
Car park: 2 chiffchaff
Sussex screen: two gadwall
Reedbed walk: 15+ long-tailed tits
Scrape hide (Trumpeter Pen): water rail, green woodpecker
Sand martin hide: 16 shelducks, 1 grey heron, 5 shoveler, 15 teal, 2 pochard.
Ramsar hide: 8 snipe
Wed 5 Dec
Arun Riverlife: 7 pochard, 1 little egret
Reedbed: 1 mistle thrush, 1 kingfisher
Scrape hide: 5 shoveler, 20 fieldfare
Ramsar hide: 3 pochard, 4 shoveler, 12 snipe, 1 little grebe, 3 reed buntings
Lapwing hide: 1 lapwing, 15 snipe
Tues 4 Dec
Scrape hide (Trumpeter Pen): water rail, little grebe
Arun Riverlife: 4 tfted ducks, 1 little egret
Wetlands Discovery (boats): kingfisher
Ramsar hide: 5 teal, 4 snipe
Lapwing hide: 1 grey heron
Sand martin hide: 10 shelduck, 32 teal, 9 pochard, 4 gadwall, 5 shoveler
Long path: great spotted woodpecker
Mon 2 Dec
Lapwing hide: 7 snipe
Ramsar hide: 15 snipe, 19 teal, 1 little grebe
Scrape hide: 11 teal, 1 kingfisher
Reedbed: great spotted woodpecker
