Increase in snipe sightings
These wildlife sightings are a record of what one warden/WWT guide has seen on a morning walk of our site.
Thurs 25 Oct
Scrape hide: 2 teal, 4 shoveler duck, 1 little grebe.
Sand martin hide: 6 shoveler, 2 shelduck, 1 gadwall.
Wildlife garden: great spotted woodpecker.
Ramsar hide: 14 snipe, 1 lapwing, 1 grey heron, 1 Cetti’s warbler, 1 cormorant.
Wetlands Discovery: tufted ducks.
Arun Riverlife: 16 tufted ducks, 9 teal.
Fri 26 Oct
Lapwing hide: 1 grey heron.
Ramsar/Sand Martin hide: 4 pochard, 1 cormorant, 2 gadwall, 9 shoveler, 1 lapwing, 2 teal, 2 shelduck.
Scrape hide: 11 shoveler, 1 shelduck, 2 teal, 1 water rail.
Arun Riverlife lagoon: 19 tufted duck, 2 pochard.
Woodland loop: treecreeper. Blue, great and coal tits, goldfinches, chiff chaff on the feeders.
Sat 27 Oct
Black Rabbit triangle: Water rail, 4 marsh harrier (leaving ), 5 little egret, 1 great egret, 1 chiffchaff, 1 firecrest.
Car park: 2 water rail, 1 chiffchaff, 2+ lesser redpoll.
Ramsar hide: 8+ common snipe, 3 shelduck, 5 greylag goose, 2 pintail, 6 teal, 4 gadwall, 44 common gull, 1 kingfisher, 1+ water rail, 1 pintail, 9 shoveler.
Lapwing hide: 6+ common snipe.
Scrape hide: 1 common snipe. Reedbed: 2+ common snipe.
Wetlands Discovery: 16 tufted ducks, 2 pochard.
Lapwing hide: 3 lapwing, a snipe.
