Great egret still onsite this week
A great egret has been onsite for the past week. The low water levels of the Arundel Lagoon project have lured the great egret to the Ramsar and sand martin hides during the day and it has been dropping into Arun Riverlife lagoon in the late afternoons. There are little egrets and up to four cattle egrets onsite currently as well.
Our wardens do not survey the entire site daily, rather focus on specific area each day. This is a list of those sightings and other WWT staff sightings:
Tues 2 Nov
Ramsar hide: great egret, little egret, 4 cattle egret, 1 kingfisher, 1 coot, 2 gadwall, 1 mute swan, 6, black-headed gulls, 2 grey heron, 2 mallards
Sand martin hide: 12 Canada Geese, 1 cattle egret, 2 moorhens, 1 coot, 5 mallards,
Tundra pen: 1 green woodpecker
Scrape hide: 2 snipe, 2 wigeon
Pelican cove: 3 pochard
Wetland Discovery: 1 kingfisher
Mon 1 Nov
Scrape hide: 2 snipe, 2 kingfishers, 1 teal
Lapwing hide: 1 Cetti’s warbler. 3 gadwall, 2 mallards, 1 little egret
Arun Riverlife lagoon: great egret
Long path: kestrel perching (midday)
Sun 31 Oct
Wetland Discovery: 13 mallards, 1 tufted duck, 1 green woodpecker, 1 coot, 1 pochard
Ramsar & sand martin hides: 5 teal, 2 cormorants, 1 great egret, 1 little egret, 1 little grebe
Pelican Cove: 1 pochard
Scrape hide: 3 wigeon
Sat 30 Oct
Wetland Discovery: 1 kestrel, 2 gadwall
Scrape hide: 10 shoveler, 3 teal, 9 gadwall, 1 wigeon
Arun Riverlife: 1 little grebe, 1 water rail, 1 cormorant, 2 mute swans, 18 Canada geese, 21 tufted ducks, 8 gadwall, 41 mallards
Ramsar & Sand martin hides: 2 gadwall, 1 teal, 4 grey herons, 1 great egret, 1 little egret, 1 grey wagtail
Fr 29 Oct
Woodland Loop: 1 chaffinch, 1 blue tit, 2 wood pigeon, 2 moorhens, 1 great tit, 1 nuthatch, 1 wren
Tundra pen: 1 green woodpecker
Lapwing hide: 1 great egret, 5 gadwall
Reserve: 1 kesterel, 1 juvenile heron
Scrape hide: 1 kingfisher, 2 teal, 14 gadwall, 12 shoveler, 1 cormorant, 1 pochard,
Ramsar & Sand martin g=hide: 9 little egrets, 1 grey herons, 1 great egret, 1 cormorant, 3 Canada geese, 2 Egyptian geese, 2 carrion crow
Arun Riverlife: 8 gadwall, 1 little grebe, 17 tufted ducks
Thurs 28 Oct
Ramsar hide: 1 great egret, 2 cattle egrets, 3 cormorants
Scrape hide: 4 gadwall, 1 great egret, 1 cormorant, 16 greylag, 2 grey herons
Pelican Cove: 1 pochard
Wetland Discovery: 2 gadwall
Lapwing hide: 2 gadwall
Woodland Loop: 1 long tailed tit, 1 wren, 1 mandarin duck
Reedbed boardwalk: 1 Cetti’s warbler
Sussex Screen: 2 gadwall
Reserve: green woodpecker
Arun Riverlife: 15 tufted ducks, 63 Canada geese
Long path ditch: 1 water vole
Wed 26 Oct
Sand martin hide: 1 cattle egret, 3 grey herons, 28 black-headed gulls, 2 cormorants, 2 gadwall, 2 mallards, 1 grey wagtail, 1 green sandpiper
Long path: 1 green woodpecker
Scrape hide: 1 snipe
