Toadlets emerge & club-tailed dragonfly spotted
Sightings week of June 11-17
Monday 11 June
Sand Martin hide: Male pintail ducks, tufted duck and gadwall.
Tues 12 June
Arun Riverlife: Pochard, tufted duck, black-headed gull colony with chicks.
Scrape hide: swallows, kingfisher, pochard, gadwall, tufted duck.
Sand Martin & Ramsar hides: Oystercatcher pair, tufted duck, gadwall, black-headed gull colony with nearly fledged young.
Lapwing hide: Canada geese, gadwall
Reedbed: water voles, reed warbler (6).
Woodland loop: black cap.
Tranquil Trail: a hobby.
Thursday 14 June
Centre Building: Club tailed dragonfly front entrance window.
Wetlands Discovery: gadwall with ducklings
Ramsar hide: swallows
Scrape hide: male teal, kingfisher, pochard.
Friday 15 June
Ramsar hide: Shelducks, tufted duck
Wetlands Discovery: Tufted duck
Sand Martin hide: Oystercatchers, shoveler, tufted duck.
Scrape hide: tufted duck, grey heron, swallows with young (half the hide is closed to protect the nest.)
Sat 16 June
Ramsar & Sand martin hide: kingfisher (hovering male), tufted duck, gadwall, oystercatchers, pintail mandarin, teal, pintail, shoveler.
Wet meadows: pyramidal orchids, common spotted orchid, bee orchid
Scrape hide: gadwall
Reedbed: Cetti’s warbler.
Woodland loop: willow warbler.
Arun Riverlife: pochard, tufted duck.
Car park: Water rail with downy chicks (ditch), Cetti’s warblers
Sun 17 June
Ramsar & Sand Martin: tufted duck, Pintail, kingfisher, oystercatchers
Lapwing hide: gadwall
Wetlands Discovry: tufted ducks
Scrape hide: teal, gadwall, tufted duck, swallow
Woodland loop: grey wagtail
