Moth morning
Last week's moth traps attracted brimstone moth, brindled beauty (pictured), early grey, mocha moth and oak tree pug.
Recent sightings by WWT wardens include:
Mon 29 April
Arun Riverlife: 7 tufted ducks, 1 shelduck, 5 gadwall, 2 Egyptian geese, 2 lapwings (chicks).
Lapwing hide: 6 lapwing, 1 shoveler.
Ramsar hide: Egyptian goose, 8 tufted ducks, 4 gadwall, 3 shoveler, 1 shelduck, 2 cackling geese, 1 laping with two chicks, pochard, 1 oystercatcher (female sitting nest).
Scrape hide: 1 teal, 1 shelduck, 1 lapwing, 7 tufted dcks, 1 pochard, 2 shoveler.
Reedbed hide: 2 swallows, 1 pied wagtail, 1 cuckoo.
Willow Screen: 2 mandarin.
Woodland Loop: 2 mandarin.
Sun 28 April
Ramsar hide: 1 oystercatcher, 4 lapwing (3 chicks), 5 sand martins, 10 house martins.
Arun Riverlife lagoon: 2 linnets (Male singing)
Woodland loop: water rail
Sat 27 April
Arun Riverlife lagoon: 2 shelducks, 3 tufted ducks, 1 pochard, 1 whitethroat (singing), 5 lapwing (3 chicks).
Ramsar hide: 5 shoveler, 1 shelduck, 8 sand martins 1 lapwing, 2 teal (pair), 7 tufted ducks.
Lapwing hide: 1 dhoveler, 3 teal, 4 lapwing.
Scrape hide: 4 shoveler, 2 lapwing, 5 tufted ducks, 1 pochard.
Reedbed: 1 pochard.
Fri 26 April
Arun Riverlife lagoon: 3 lapwing (2 chicks), 5 tfted ducks, 1 shelducks, 1 grey wagtail, 1 Egyptian goose. Wetlands Discovery: 2 pochards, 2 Cetti’s warblers, 3 sedge warblers, 1 tufted duck.
Wetland Discovery: 2 pochards, 2 Cetti’s warbler, 3 sedge warblers, 1 tufted ducks.
Lapwing hide: 5 lapwing (1 chick), 1 shoveler, 2 tufted ducks, 1 gadwall, 5 teal, 1 green finch, 1 song thrush, 1 wren, 1 Cetti’s warbler.
Ramsar /Sand martin hide: 2 Cackling goose, 4 lapwing (2 chicks), 3 gadwall, 1 oystercatcher, 12 tufted ducks, 3 shelducks, 2 shoveler, 4 Med. Gulls, 1 Egyptian goose.
Wildlife garden: 1 green finch, 1 black cap, 1 Cetti’s warbler, 16 goldfinches.
Scrape hide: 1 snipe, 1 pochard, 7 tufted ducks, 2 Cetti’s warblers, 2 shelducks, 1 swallow, 2 sedge warblers, 1 gadwall, 1 shoveler.
Reedbeds: 1 reed warbler, 1 wren, 2 sedge warblers
Reedbed hide: 1 reed warbler, 1 sedge warbler, 1 Cetti’s warbler, 1 swallow.
Willow Screen: 2 mandarin ducks, 1 Cetti’s warbler, 1 sedge warbler.
Woodland Loop: mandarin ducks.
