Weekend's sightings include osprey & sand martins

Species sightings for Sat 17 Sept

Sand martins are really moving through the reserve now mixed in flocks with house martins. Photo by Keith Humphrey
Sand martins are really moving through the reserve now mixed in flocks with house martins. Photo by Keith Humphrey

Lapwing hide: teal, snipe, pheasant, mallard, wood pigeon.

Ramsar & Sand Martin hides: sand martins, house martins, Canada geese, greylag geese, teal, shoveler, mallard,moorhen, black-headed gull.

Scrape hide: kingfisher, grey heron, house martins, little grebe, Canada geese, teal, goldfinch.

Arun Riverlife: mute swans, Canada geese, house martins, gadwall, mallard, tufted duck.

Reserve & Grounds: house martins, sand martins, kingfisher, black-headed gull, blue/great/coal/long-tailed tit, Cetti's warbler, robin, dunnock, chiff chaff, wren, blackbird, bullfinch, green woodpecker, coot, moorhen, goldfinch, blackcap, osprey (pm).


Species sightings for Sun 18 Sept

Lapwing hide: Canada Geese, teal, pheasant, mallard, wood pigeon, pheasant, magpie

Ramsar & Sand Martin hides: sand martins, Canada geese,  greylag geese, shoveler, gadwall, mandarin duck

Scrape hide: teal, kingfisher, grey heron, sand martins, gadwall, mallard

Arun Riverlife: mute swans, Canada geese, house martins, sand martins, tufted duck black-headed gull

Reserve & Grounds: buzzard, tufted duck, kingfisher, green woodpecker, nuthatch, blue/great/coal tit, Cetti's warbler, tree creeper, robin, dunnock, chaffinch, wren, blackbird, bullfinch, green woodpecker, coot, moorhen, goldfinch, blackcap.

 

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