Arundel News
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
Mandarin ducks take to the trees to nest
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. A least one pair of mandarin ducks are nesting in the large willow tree
12 May 2014
Displaying sedge warbler and visiting turtle dove
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. May 6: LAST SUNDAY I watched a male sedge warbler displaying between th
6 May 2014
Birds of prey pairing up & a dormouse discovered
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. Feb 17: The lone oystercatcher that arrived at WWT Arundel Wetland Cent
18 February 2014
Discover Birds in a weekend of walks, talks, song and art
Discover Birds at WWT Arundel Wetland Centre in a weekend of walks, talks, music and art! Whether you’re a beginning birder or a seasoned twitcher you will enjoy workshops on field craft and birdsong, music with the folk band Shipwrecked, optics display
18 February 2014