Both kingfisher pairs are trying for second broods
Both pairs of kingfishers have already hatched out youngsters that have left the nest but both pairs are trying for second broods in the nesting banks.
Breeding kingfishers are very territorial. When the chicks are grown and can fly they must find their own territory. Visitors can watch kingfishers going in and out of their nest hole at the Sand Martin hide nesting bank. Kingfishers are still nesting in the Arun Riverlife Lagoon nest bank in hole 5, easily seen from the Water’s Edge Café seating indoors or from the windows of the Discovery hide opposite the bank.
Sun 3 July
Wetland Discovery: 1 black-headed gull, 4 mallards, 2 geyalg geese with three young
Sand martin hide: 2 oystercatchers on the roof and right sland, 1 kingfisher on left perch
Scrape hide: 2 teal, 1 kingfisher, 1 common blue damselflt.
Sat 2 July
Arun Riverlife: 2 mute swans, 7 Canada geese, 1 greylag goose, 5 mallards, 1 coot, 3 black-headed gulls
Sand Martin hide: 2 oystercatchers
Ramsar hide: 16 catt;e egrets, 3 little egrets late afternoon.
Offham hanger: 2 noisy peregrines.
Thursday 30 June
Reedbed: 1 sedgewarbler, 1 reed warbler, 2 chiffchaff, 1 Cetti’s warbler, 5 long-tailed tits
Sand martin hide: 2 oystercatchers on roof and islands, 1 kingfisher male, 10sand martins
Woodland Loop: 1 great spotted woodpecker
Wed 29 June
Scrape hide: 1 wren, 4 coots, 1 teal, 19 mallards, 3 gadwall, 1 male goldfinch, a pair of tufted ducks,3 black-headed gulls, 2 moorhens, 1 great spotted woodpecker
Sand martin hide: 4 tufted ducks, 1 male oystercatchers, 1 male kingfisher, c30 sand martins
Old Tundra pen: 2 tufted ducks
Arun Roverlife: 1 tufted duck
Pelican Cove: 3 pochard, 5 tufted ducks
Meadow Pond: 2 mandarin ducks
Woodland Loop: 1 great spotted woodpecker
Scrape Hide: 1 grey heron, 1 chiffchaff, 1 reed warbler
June 29 Moth Survey
Moth Survey: 291 moths of 88 species
Including 28 Elephant hawkmoths, 9 poplar hawk moths, 16 bright-line brown-eye moths, 15 dark arches, 13 clouded border moths, 7 shuttle-shaped dars, 5 large yellow underwings.
Tuesday 28 June
Ramsar and Sand martin hides: 4 gadwall, 6 mallards, 5 coots, 2 moorhens, 1 kingfisher on perch in front of Sand Martin hide, 1 mandarin duck, 6 tufted ducks, 60 black-headed gulls, 1 mute swan, 2 oystercacthers, 8 sand martins
Mon 27 June
Arun Riverlife: 2kingfishers shouting perching and flying
Pelican Cove: 1 pochard,
Ramsar and Sand martin hide: 1 pochard, 1 oystercatcher, c10 sand martins, 4 cattle egrets.
Sunday 26 June
Wetland Discovery: 1 chiffchaff, 1 kingfisher
Pelican Cove: 1 pochard
Reedswamp: 1 pochard
Scrape hide: 4 teal, 1 mandarin, 9 gadwall, 2 mute swan,
Ramsar hide: c15 sand martins, 1 cormorant, 2 little egrets, 5 cattle egrets, 2 mute swasn, 1 kingfisher.
