Winter survey count includes 14 Bewick's swans
The Wetland bird survey (WeBS) monitors the UK's internationally important non-breeding waterbirds. We count once per month, providing data for population and trends in abundance and distribution. Surveying inside our boundries we also survey the surrounding land with these birds benefitting from the protection we afford to wintering waterbirds.
Sunday 14 February WeBS
Arun Riverlife: 3 mallards, 1 snipe, 54 black-headed gulls, 1 herring gull.
Pelican Cove: 2 coots, 2 moorhen, 4 herring gulls.
Lakes & forest exhibit: 33 mallards, 2 coots, 9 moorhens, 2 mute swans, 1 pochard, 2 Canada geese, 20 black-headed gulls, 8 herring gulls, 2 Egyptian geese.
Reedswamp exhibit: 24 mallards, 6 coots, 2 moorhen, 3 Canada geese, 11 black0-headed gulls, 9 herring gulls,
Reedbed: 28 mallards, 2 Canada geese
Reedbed hide: 2 mallards
Scrape hide: 1 snipe, 1 grey heron
Trumpeter swan pond: 20 mallards, 2 coots, 1 moorhen, 2 mute swans,
Sand Martin hide: 34 mallards, 4 coots, 16 teal, 16 shelducks, 1 pochard, 8 Canada geese, 14 greylag geese, 1 wigeon,
Ramsar hide: 9 mallards, 5 coots, 3 moorhen, 3 shelducks, 3 gadwall, 6 shoveler, 3 Canada geese, 4 snipe, 14 common gulls, 57 black-headed gulls, 5 herring gulls.
Lapwing hide: 2 mallards, 1 grey heron.
Arundel Mill Stream: 5 mallards, 1 moorhen.
Burpham Loop: 14 Bewick’s swans, 1 marsh harrier, 1 Egyptian goose, 8 lapwing, 7 mute swans
Arun meadows: 46 lapwing, 2 mute swans, 29 Canada geese, 66 greylag geese, 1 snipe, 55 blackheaded gulls, 20 herring gulls.
Swanbourne lake: 30 mallards, 64 coots, 2 moorhen, 2 mute swans, 88 tufted ducks, 36 gadwall, 1 pochard, 274 black-headed gulls, 58 herring gulls, 37 common gulls.
