Bewick's in the valley & big lapwing count
Wardens counted 210 lapwing at Arundel during the Wetland Birds Survey (WeBS) on Sunday 17 Jan. We had word that there are 11 Bewick's swans in the Arun Valley. We are keeping an eye out in the late afternoons, hoping they may come in to roost here if it gets cold enough. A barn owl was spotted at 4 pm on over the Wet grassland last Saturday. A little grebe was spotted on the Arun Riverlife lagoon on Monday,
Wed 20 Jan
Ramsar & Sand Martin hide: 9 shelducks, 12 lapwings, 1 pochard, 19 shoveler, 3 wigeon, 14 snipe, and 21 tufted ducks.
Arun Riverlife: 5 pochards
Scrape hide: 24 mallards, 2 tufted ducks, 3 greylag geese, 1 gadwall, and 1 snipe
Tue 19 Jan
Woodland Loop: 1 water rail, 1 marsh tot, 1 great spotted woodpecker
Scrape hide: 1 kingfisher
Lapwing hide: teal
Arun Riverlife: 6 pochard, 4 tufted ducks
Ramsar & Sand Martin hides: 59 mallards, 21 greylag geese, 22 shelducks, 52 black-headed gulls, 18 tufted ducks, 19 snipe, 21 Canada Geese, 4 moorhens, 2 coots, 9 teal, 3 cormorants, 11 lapwing, 6 wigeon, 19 shoveler, 1 pochard.
Mon 18 Jan
Arun Riverlife: 3 pochards, 1 little grebe, 1 little egret
Ramsar & Sand Martin hide: 42 lapwing, 3 little egrets, and 10 snipe.
Sat 16 Jan
Wetlands Discovery: 3 pochards
Lapwing hide; 17 teal
Tranquil Trail: 1 bullfinch
Ramsar hide: 17 snipe
Sand Martin hide: 16 lapwing, 13 shelducks, 1 wigeon, 5 shoveler, 2 cormorant
Scrape hide: 1 snipe, 5 shoveler
Woodland Loop: 1 marsh tit
Arun Riverlife: 12 snipe, 36 mallards, 1 coot, 1 moorhen, 3 pochards, and 1 gadwall.
Wet Grassland: 1 barn owl (at 4 pm)
Fri 15 Jan
Woodland Loop: 6 moorhens, 2 mallards, 15 blue tits, 1 great tit, 3 chaffinches, 1 robin, 3 wood pigeon, 1 dunnock, 1 pheasant.
Arun Riverlife: 6 pochard.
Willow Screen: 1 kingfisher
Ramsar & Sand Martin hide: 1 wigeon, 16 lapwing, 18 tufted ducks, and 106 greylag geese.
Thurs 14 Jan
Sand Martin hide: 77 lapwing (morning)
Arun Riverlife: 6 pochard
Sussex Screen: 24 mallards
