Busy Woodloop feeders a sign of spring
The bird feeders in the Woodland Loop have been getting busier as more songbirds arrive. The pair of kingfishers are still on the nesting bank on the Arun Riverlife lagoon. Lapwing sightings are increasing on the wet grassland -this photo from volunteer Andy Burns.
Wed 16 March
Wetland Discovery: 1 pochard
Arun Riverlife: a pair of oystercatchers
Lapwing hide: 2 male and one female lapwing
Ramsar hide: 11 Mediterranean gulls, 1 kingfisher
Scrape hide: 19 Canada geese, 5 greylag geese, 4 teal, 4 tufted duck, 12 mallards, 2 shelducks, 2 coots, 8 shoveler, 27 black-headed gulls.
Tues 15 March
Arun Riverlife: 2 pairs of pochard, 1 lapwing
Lapwing hide: a pair of lapwing, female looks to be nest sitting
Ramsar hide: 2 pheasants, 3 lapwing, 14 Canada geese, 2 greylag geese, 2 shelducks, 2 pochard, 1 shoveler duck, 4 tufted ducks, 1 kingfisher, 3 coots, 3 moorhens, 11 mallards, 148 black-headed gulls, 163 common gulls, 10 Mediterranean gulls, 3 buzzards overhead, 1 red kite.
Mon 14 March
Ramsar and Sand martin hides: 2 oystercatchers, 1 cormorant, 2 lapwing, 9 Mediterranean, 2 kingfisher, 2 pochards
Arun Riverlife: 2 oystercatcher, 1 pochard
Woodland Loop: 4 mandarin ducks, 1 nuthatch
Scrape hide: 1 lapwing, 1 kingfisher
Lapwing hide: 4 lapwing, 4 greylag geese, 1 coot, 1 mallard, 4 black-headed gulls, 1 moorhen, 2 shelducks, 1 blue tit, 1 Cetti's warbler, 1 pheasant
Sun 13 March
Wetland Discovery: 2 chaffinches, 2 coots, 2 black-headed gulls, 7 mallards, 4 Canada geese, 1 long-tailed tit, 2 blue tits, 4 tufted ducks, 2 great tits, 1 Cetti's warbler, 1 Lapwing.
Arun Riverlife & Pelican Cove: 2 oystercatchers, 9 pochard, 1 lapwing
Ramsar & Sand Martin hide: 1 kingfisher, 65 Mediterranean gulls, 500 common gulls, 1 lapwing.
Sat 12 March
Arun Riverlife: 14 mallards, 3 coots, 2 moorhen, 1 greylag, 4 Canada goose, 2 gadwall, 2 pochard, 1 shelducks, 11 tfted ducks, 3 herring gulls, 78 black-heded gulls, 3 snipe
Ramsar hide: 12 Mediterranean gulls, 600 common gulls, 4 lapwing
Lapwing hide: 2 lapwing
Fri 11 March
Woodland Loop: 4 phesants, 1 moorhen, 8 blue tits, 2 goldfinches, 5 great tits, 1 dunnock, 1 woodpigeon, 6 mallards, 2 ong-tailed tits
Wet Grassland: 1 lapwing
Reddbed boardwalk: 1 snipe
Wetland Discovery: 1 pochard, 1 kingfisher
Ramsar hide: 69 Mediterranean gulls, 4 cormorants
Scrape hide: 1 lapwing, 3 pochards
Arun Riverlife: 1 pochard, 1 kingfisher
