Arundel News
Park & Ride to Arundel by Candlelight from Arundel Wetland Centre
On Sat 6 Dec, WWT Arundel Wetland Centre is opening its car park to town visitors to help ease parking congestion during the Arundel by Candlelight event. Between 1pm and 8:30pm the Arundel Chamber of Commerce will operate a Park & Ride system from th
1 December 2014
Harvest mice surveys and starling murmurations
Paul Steven’s weekly diary runs as the Wildlife Sightings column in the weekly Observer series of newspapers. Paul holds a harvest mouse found in one of the Longworth traps When people think of our wetland reserve t
17 November 2014
Dragonflies defy the frost & passerines dine on the hedgerows
Paul Steven’s weekly diary runs as the Wildlife Sightings column in the weekly Observer series of newspapers. I thought the heavy frost we had last Thursday to be the death knell to this seasons dragonfly population but our boat drivers spotted common d
10 November 2014
Kingfishers and little grebe fish on Arun Riverlife
Paul Steven’s weekly diary runs as the Wildlife Sightings column in the weekly Observer series of newspapers. It’s raining again today. Last week we had over 122 mm of rain on the reserve last week. The teal have dispersed out into the Arun Valley as
13 October 2014
Kingfisher showoff delights Sunday visitors
Paul Steven’s weekly diary runs as the Wildlife Sightings column in the weekly Observer series of newspapers. There was frost on the boardwalk when I arrived at Arundel Wetland Centre on Sunday morning. The cold overnight wasn’t enough to kill off the
6 October 2014
Education taster sessions for teachers
WWT Arundel Wetland Centre is holding an Open Day for teachers on Sunday 5 October. Teachers must register in advance to visit the reserve for this tour and a preview of the education sessions on offer and receive a WWT goody bag. “All our sessions prom
30 September 2014
Cross over season starts to brings in teal, gadwall and wigeon
Paul Steven’s weekly diary runs as the Wildlife Sightings column in the weekly Observer series of newspapers. IT’S CROSS OVER season now with many warblers migrating to southern Europe and Africa while a few water rail, snipe and teal are beginning t
29 September 2014
More to pick than blackberries
Great weather this year means green spaces hold a bumper crop for foragers The wet winter, sunny spring and mild summer have combined to bring a bumper crop of wild food to the countryside this year. During the ‘Foraging & Fire-lighting’ workshop
20 September 2014
Bio-blitz butterflies & a soaring sparrow hawk
Paul Steven’s weekly Wildlife Sightings column also appears in the Chichester Observer, the Littlehampton Gazette, the Bognor Regis Observer, the Shoreham Herald and the Worthing Herald. COLIN Knight of Butterfly Conservation Sussex took part in our Bio
26 August 2014
Bio-Blitz surveys find canary moth and clouded yellows.
This is Paul Steven’s weekly Wildlife Sightings column written August 18, appearing in the Chichester Observer, the Littlehampton Gazette, the Bognor Regis Observer, the Shoreham Herald and the Worthing Herald. A Bio-Blitz is an intense period of bi
19 August 2014
Beetlemania - scarce bug recorded
June 4: Great Silver Water Beetle was found in the Icelandic exhibit at Arundel wetland Centre WWT Arundel grounds warden Terry Clements kicked off beetlemania among staff on June 4 when he found a Greater Silver Wate
19 July 2014
Expert says notable dragonfly is breeding at Arundel Wetland Centre
Green-eyed, mature, male clubtail seeks a mate. A dragonfly that only breeds on 5 rivers in the UK has been discovered at Arundel Wetland Centre. A club-tailed dragonfly was photographed by Warden Paul Stevens on Sun
19 July 2014
Count yourself in for the Big Butterfly Count 2014
Sir David Attenborough launched the 2014 Big Butterfly count at WWT’s London Wetland Centre. Arundel Wetland Centre urges you to get outside for the Big Butterfly Count this summer. Visitors to the wetland nature re
19 July 2014
Bats on maternity leave
Macropis europaea mining oil and pollen on yellow loosestrife This is Paul Steven’s weekly Wildlife Sightings column written June 7, appearing in the Chichester Observer, the Littlehampton Gazette, the Bognor Re
8 July 2014
Arun Riverlife becoming a lush habitat for wildlife
This is Paul Steven’s weekly Wildlife Sightings column appears in the Chichester Observer, the Littlehampton Gazette, the Bognor Regis Observer, the Shoreham Herald and the Worthing Herald. Last summer our Arun Riverlife area was a wasteland of cracked
2 June 2014