Wildfowl paired up and nesting
Manadarin duck in the woodland loop gives a yawn. Photo: Romney Turner.
Cetti's warblers and sedge warblers singing onsite. Reed bunting spotted in reedbed. Great spotted woodpecker and green woodpeckers seen in the Woodlnd Loop.Four lapwing chicks were spotted from the Ramsar hide on Sunday afternoon.
Weekend sightings from Arundel Wetand Centre:
Sun 14 April
Ramsar hide: 1 shoveler, 2 lapwings & 4 chicks, 2 oystercatchers, Med gulls 12, common gull 24, sedge warbler singing, Cetti’s warbler singing, 3 tufted ducks, 3 cormorants, 1 gadwall, 4 shelducks.
Scrape hide: lapwing, shelducks, sedge warbler singing, reed bunting.
Reedbed hide: water rail.
Woodland Loop: 3 mandarin ducks, Great Spotted woodpecker drumming, green woodpecker.
Willow screen pochard.
World Wildfowl exhibit: 2 pochard, 2 tufted ducks.
Arun Riverlife lagoon: 2 lapwing, 2 tufted ducks, 2 shelducks.
Wetlands Discovery: 5 tufted ducks, 2 gadwall, 8 house martins, 2 Cetti’s warblers.
Lapwing hide: 4 lapwing 2 females on nests., 4 shoveler, 2 teal, 4 shelducks, 2 gadwall, 1 chiffchaff.
Sat 13 April
Arun Riverlife lagoon: 3 pochard, 9 tufted ducks, 2 Egyptian geese, 1 snipe, 1 lapwing.
Wetlands Discovery: 1 sedge warbler singing.
Lapwing hide: 2 shoveler, 5 lapwing, 2 teal.
Ramsar/Sand Martin hides: 2 oystercatchers, 6 gadwall, 2 lapwing, 4 tufted ducks, 4 shelducks, 22 Med. Gulls, 54 common gulls, 3 cormorants, 2 shoveler, 2 sand martins, 1 house martins. Scrape hide: 1 shelduck, 2 shoveler, 2 tfted ducks, 1 gadwll, 2 teal, 1 pochard.
Long path: 1 singing sedge warbler.
Reedbed: water rail calling.
