Singing, displaying & nest scraping start
The lapwing males are doing display flights over the Wet Grasslands area. Three sets of lapwing pairs seen on the wet grassland from the Lapwing hide – two of the pairs were nest scraping.
Singing around the site are:
- Cetti’s warblers
- Wren
- Dunnocks
- song thrushes
- blackbirds
- chaffinches
Onsite this week look for...
Along the pathways:
- bullfinch (feeders)
- water rail
- long-tailed tits
- Cetti’s warblers (singing)
- wren (singing)
- dunnocks (singing)
- song thrushes (singing)
- blackbirds (singing)
- chaffinches (singing)
Woodland Loop
- treecreepers
- great spotted woodpecker (drumming)
- goldfinch
- blue tits (nest boxes)
- coal tits
- great tits
- chaffinch
Lost Reedbed
- marsh harrier (roost)
Reedbeds
- Water rail
- Reed bunting
- sparrowhawk
Lagoons Ramsar, Sand Martin & Scrape hides
- teal
- shoveler ducks
- snipe
- grey heron
- tufted ducks
- shelducks
- little grebe
- little egret
- oystercatcher pair
- gadwall
- black-headed gull
- Mediterranean gull
Wetlands Discovery
- pochard ducks
- tufted ducks
- goldcrest
- bullfinch
- green woodpecker (ground)
Arun Riverlife
- shelducks
- tufted ducks
- pochard
- oystercatcher pair
- water rail
- grey wagtail
Wet Grasslands from Lapwing & Ramsar hides
- snipe
- teal
- lapwing (males are displaying & nest scraping)
