Bird song bonanza, great crested grebe & sand piper
Lots of bird song in the air from the likes of this sedge warbler and a black cap both captured by Rob Collins on a recent visit.
We’ve had a nightingale on the back of the car park wild area that borders the wet grassland of the Lapwing hide off and on for the past 3-4 days. A great crested grebe has also dropped in for the past two day on the large lagoon between the Ramsar and Sand martin hides.
A sand piper was in on Arun Riverlife on Sunday.
The Wetland Bird Survey on Monday counted 12 lapwing onsite with 8 at the Ramsar hide, a pair at the lapwing hide and one each sighted at Scrape hide and the Arun Rverlife lagoon. The survey showed we have a pair of snip at the Scrape hide and a pair of teal at the Ramsar hide. Survey volunteer Andrew also had two shoveler sightings from the Ramsar and Scrape hides.
27/04/23
Arun Riverlife: 1 kingfishers, 1 pochard, 1 lapwing
Ramsar and San martin hides: 2 oystercatchers, 1 great crested grebe, 1 cattle egret, 1 pochard, 8 lapwing, 25 sand martins
Lapwing hide: 1 lapwing male on right of grassland
Scrape hide: 1 lapwing male, 2 pochard
Reedbed: 2 reed warblers, 3 mallards, 1 Cetti’s warbler, 1 greenfinch, 2 chiffchaff, 2 mute swans 1 on nest, 2 goldfinches, 2 blue tits, 3 sedge warblers, 2 Canada geese, 2 moorhens, 1 wren
26/04/23
Scrape hide: 2 moorhens, 1 shoveler duck, 1 sedge warbler, 1 greylag goose, 1 chaffinch, 1 gadwall
Sand martin hide: 1 great crested grebe, 5 tufted ducks, 3 teal, 1 oystercatcher, 2 shoveler, 3 sand martins.
Ramsar hide: 2 gadwall, 3 tufted ducks, 11 lapwing
Wetland discovery are: 8 tufted ducks
Lapwing hide: 1 lapwing, 1 grey heron, 2 curlew (flyover on their way up river), nightingale singing
Arun Riverlife: 1 common sandpiper, 1 kingfisher, 2 pochard, 1 oystercatcher, 2 gadwall, 11 tufted ducks, 2 teal, 1 lapwing
Pelican Cove: 2 tufted ducks, 1 pochard, and 1 oystercatcher
All of reserve: 1 peregrine flying over
Trumpeter meadow pond: 3 mandarins
Woodland loop: 1 blackcap, 1 great spotted woodpecker
Willow sphere: 2 gadwall
Scrape hide: 1 Cetti’s warbler, 1 wren, 8 Canada geese, 34 black-headed gulls, 1 lapwing, 6 mallards, 1 gadwall, 6 tufted ducks, 1 reed warbler, 1 black cap, 1 chiffchaff, 1 blue tit.
25/04/23
Arun Riverlife: 1 kingfisher, Ramsar & Sand martin hides: 7 lapwing, 12 greylag geese, 2 Canada geese, 166 black-headed gulls, 10 common gulls, 2 lesser black0backed gulls, 2 coots, 3 gadwall, 1 shoveler, 2 mallards, and 10 sand martins
Lapwing hide: 1 lapwing, 10 sand martins
Scrape hide: 1 lapwing
23/04/23
Arun riverlife: 1 pochard, 4 teal, 1 lapwing
Wetland Discovery Area: 6 mallards, 2 black-headed gull, 4 sedge warblers, 4 Canada geese, 5 tufted ducks, 1 chiffchaff, 1 wren, 4 greylag geese
Ramsar hide: 3 little egrets, c25 sand martins, 7 lesser black-backed gulls, 6 Mediterranean gulls, and 8 lapwing
Lapwing hide: 2 lapwing
Scrape hide: 1 lapwings, 2 teal.
22/04/23
Arun Riverlife Lagoon: 2 mute swans, 18 black-headed gulls, 6 mallards, 1 moorhen, 1 kingfisher, 1 lapwing, 4 teal, 1 pochard, 4 tufted ducks, 3 Canada geese, 1 oystercatcher.
Pelican Cove: 4 pochard, 1 oystercatcher.
Reedswamp exhibit: 3 pochard
Ramsar hide: 6 lapwing
21/04/23
Wood loop: 8 chaffinches, 6 mandarin ducks, 2 moorhens, 6 goldfinches, 1 green finch, 4 great tits, 2 robins, 5 blue tits, 2 wrens
