Displaying teal on the icy scrape
Teal, gadwall and shoveler are present in good numbers from Ramsar, Sand Martin and Scrape hides, with shelduck dotted amongst them.
Pair bonds are forming and the array of display between species is an often comical sight. Teal were calling and the males giving head bobbing display on Tuesday, despite the ice covering half the waterway.
Lapwing filling the sky above the lagoon between Ramsar and Sand Martin hides is a
wonderful sight indeed. The sight and sound of anything up to 170 plus of these
beautiful birds is a welcome return. If you spot any with colour banded
leg rings please let us know via the admission desk - accurate reports are most welcome!
Tues 17 Jan
Ramsar & Sand Martin hide: 15 gadwall, 1 black-headed gull, 16 little egrets, 49 shoveler, 2 grey heron, 10 wigeon, 1 little grebe, 36 greylag geese, 2 Egyptian geese, 8 shelducks, 2 pochard, 14 coots, 1 moorhen, 6 cormorants, 20 teal, 60 lapwing, 4 snipe
Lapwing hide: 8 snipe
Wetland Discovery: 1 kingfisher, 3 pochard
Arun Riverlife: 1 kingfisher
Mon 16 Jan
Wetland Discovery: 4 pochards
Ramsar & Sand martin hide: 34 snipe, 165 lapwing, 7 pochards, 4 wigeon, 1 kingfisher.
Sun 15 Jan
Wetland Discovery: 6 pochard, 24 mallards, 6 Canada geese, 4 carrion crow, 4 tufted duck, 2 gadwall, 2 coots.
Scrape hide: 2 lapwing, 1 little grebe, 30 shoveler
Ramsar hide: 72 lapwing, 68 gadwall (34 pairs), 1 snipe, and 11 marsh harriers
Sat 14 Jan
Arun Riverlife: 1 cormorant, 3 pochard, 10 Canada geese, 1 grey heron, 6 coots, 1 kingfisher, 3 moorhens, 6 tufted duck, 10 mallards
Scrape hide: 24 shoveler, 1 marsh harriers
Ramsar & Sand martin hides: 12 shoveelr, 1 kingfisher, 34 teal, 5 snipe, 11 common gull, and 80 lapwing.
Friday 13 Jan
Wetland Discovery area: 1 kingfisher, 4 pochard
Ramsar hide: 6 cormorants, 2 grey heron, 100 lapwing, and 1 pochard
Wood Loop: 7 chaffinches, 10 blue tits, 7 great tits, 1 nuthatch, 2 blackbirds, 2 robins, 3 dunnocks, 1 water rail, 1 moor hen, 1 pheasant, 1 mallard, 1 wood pigeon, 1 goldfinch, 3 squirrels.
