Latest sightings
Tues 21 March Sightings
A lovely lapwing takes flight. Photo from Natasha Clark Its sunny and breezy today. Here is what our designated warden spotted on their morning walk. Tues 21 March Woodland Loop: blue tit, great tit, chaffinch, great
21 March 2017
Recent Sightings
Nuthatch in Woodland Loop by Susan Lamb. Here are a list of species spotted by our wardens during the morning walk around the site. Numbers of individual birds/wildfowl are included when available. Fri 17 March Reserv
20 March 2017
Tuesday sightings
Greylag geese Pic: Peter Ashley Tues 14 March Arun Riverlife: 2 Med. gull, 2 lapwing, 4 pochard, 6 tufted duck Ramsar hide: 6 lapwing, Canada geese, gadwall, greylag geese, shelduck, tufted duck, pintail, pocha
14 March 2017
What's Wild at WWT Arundel
Lapwing at Arundel Toads have been flocking to Arundel over the past week. To breed toads return to the water where they first emerged as toadlets, and can travel up to three miles. There was a mass emergence on our f
13 March 2017
Weekend Wildlife sightings
Snipe from the Scrape hide by Mike Powney Sun 12 March Lapwing hide: 9 teal, 4 lapwing Ramsar hide: mute swan, greylag geese, black-headed gull, common gull, 5 snipe, Med. gull, shelduck, 4 teal, oystercatcher
12 March 2017
Friday Wildlife Sightings
Lots of toads moving onto the reserve and mating in the waterways. Common toads heading for the water at WWT Arundel Pic: Paul Stevens Reserve & Grounds: robin, dunnock, carrion crow, tufted duck, Ca
10 March 2017
What's wild Monday 6 March
Long-tailed tit photographed by Mike Jerome. Monday 6 March at Arundel Wetland Centre with Paul Stevens Two pairs of lapwings are getting ready to nest on the Wet Grassland opposite our Lapwing hide. On Monday morning
6 March 2017
Saturday Sightings
Water rail photographed on Fri 3 March by visit Linda Hammant. Species sightings from the WWT wardens morning walk: Reserve & Grounds: 4 buzzard, reed bunting, water rail, pochard, long-tailed tit, tufted duck,
4 March 2017
Recent Sightings
Kingfisher photographed on Wed 1 Mar by Chris Lay. Fri 3 March Lapwing hide: 3 lapwing, Canada geese, mallard,greylag geese, 8 teal, blackbird, black-headed gull, cormorant Ramsar hide: 4 lapwing, 3 cormorant, great e
3 March 2017
Recent sightings
Mon 27 Feb Ramsar hide: lapwing, teal, greylag geese, black-headed gull, 2 oystercatcher, shelduck, Canada, common gull, snipe, pochard World Wetlands: tufted duck, Little grebe, 6 pochard Lapwing hide: 4 shoveler, 4 lapwing, teal Scrape hide: snipe, sh
27 February 2017
Icy ponds & frozen mud makes hungry birds bolder
Long-tailed tit from a small flock of four near the feeding bay Paul Stevens' Wildlife Sightings column appears every Thursday in the Chichester Observer newspaper. IT’S ANOTHER cold and bright Monday morning
5 December 2016
A flush of snipe and squabbling egrets
Paul Steven's weekly wildlife sightings column runs every Thursday in the Chichester Observer, Bognor Regis Observer and Littlehampton Gazette. November 24, 2016 Marsh harrier coming into roost in the lost reedbed.
24 November 2016
18 snipe at Scrape hide on Wednesday
A snipe blending in with the reeds at the waters edge. Morning sightings from our wardens. Wed 2 Nov Wer
3 November 2016
Plenty of kingfishers sightings
Kingfisher photographed on Sun 30 Oct by Anthony Plummer Sun 30 Oct Grounds and reserve: k
31 October 2016
Shelduck number increasing at Ramsar hide
Shelduck feeding - WWT stock photo Sunday 23 Oct Sighted at Ramsar Hide by Guide-in-the-hide Peter. 2 Cormorant, 5 shelducks, 4 teal, 5 shoveler, 1 grey heron, 4 gadwall. Saturday 2
23 October 2016