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, 7 tufted duck, pochard, 3 shoveler, 2 gadwall, 4 lapwing

Scrape hide: 3 snipe, oystercatcher, mallard

Arun Riverlife: shoveler, pochard, 10 tufted duck

Reserve & Grounds: nut hatch, great spotted woodpecker, water rail, chiff chaff, chaffinch, goldfinch, blue tit, great tit, wren, pochard, greylag geese, robin, dunnock


SATURDAY 11 MARCH

Reserve & Grounds: goldfinch, jackdaw, mallard, Canada geese, black-headed gull, chaffinch, greylag geese, herring gull

Wetlands Discovery: dunnock, 6 tufted duck, 4 pochard, Lapwing hide: 7 lapwing, 4 wigeon, 2 gadwall

Ramsar & Sand Martin hide: 2 pintail (male & female) , 3 lapwing, 7 snipe, 2 shoveler, 4 shelduck, 2 gadwall, 4 lesser black-backed gull, 11 tufted duck, 1 Grey heron, 2 wigeon, common gull, Canada geese, Canada + barnacle goose hybrid, wren, magpie

Scrape hide: 4 wigeon

Reedbed boardwalk: reed bunting, great tit

Woodland Loop: great tit, magpie, blue tit, wren, blackbird, carrion crow

Arun Riverlife: Cetti's warbler 5 pochard, 2 gadwall, 8 tufted duck

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