Great egret, hawfinches and 18 lapwing
Highlights:
- Wednesday roost - 17 little egrets came into roost between 4.15 5pm near Ramsar hide along with 2 grey herons
- Saturday - During morning feed WWT Warden Emma spotted a great egret in the Trumpter Swan pen along with 11 little egrets and a cormorant
- Barn owl pellets in Lapwing hide
Saturday:
- 44 common gull
- Guide in Hide David spotted 5 hawfinch near Woodland Loop along with drumming Great spotted woodpeckers.
- Marsh tit and a pair of stonechat in hedgerows.
- Cetti’s warbler (2) chasing each other near Outlook In building
- bullfinches showing well
Monday:
- 13 shelduck at Ramsar hide
- 18 lapwing on the wet grassland in morning, chasing and pairing up behaviour
- 30 snipe flushed by Wardens adjust sluices on wet grassland at Lapwing hide.
- 40 gadwall onsite: 10 at Scrape hide, 30 at Ramsar hide
- 2 wigeon (pair) on Arun Riverlife lagoon, 1 wigeon on Scrape hide
- 60+ teal onsite: 41 at Scrape hide mostly males, whistling and displaying.
- 3 buzzards
- Dunnocks singing
- long-tailed tits active on the feeders ,pairing up, early nesters (Feb)
- single chiff chaff spotted near Scrape hide
In general:
- water rails active all around reserve
- kingfishers showing well.
- goldcrest and firecrests active and showing well on hedgerows between Ramsar and Sand Martin hides
