Kingfisher pair back at the nesting bank
Pick up our Wildlife Observation cards to help us keep an eye on the kingfisher pair who have made the Arun Riverlife lagoon their territory.
The pair were sitting on the far right perch in front on the nesting bank on Wednesday morning around 11 for quite a while giving visitors a lovely chance to see them from the Discovery hide and from the windows of the café seating area in the main gallery of our visitor centre. Last Sunday this pair chased another kingfisher off their territory!
Kingfishers have also been spotted along the channels of the boat safari on Wetlands Discovery area. A second pair?
Other signs of spring? Lapwings have been appearing regularly on the wet grassland at Lapwing and Ramsar hides.
Wed 2 March
Arun Riverlife lagoon: 2 kingfishers, 4 male pochards, 1 lapwing
Front pond: (rescued from along the perimeter fence) 35 toads
Scrape hide: 2 coots, 2 Canada geese, 6 mallards, 13 male and 5 female shoveler, a pair of shelducks, and 1 little grebe.
Tues 1 March
Lapwing hide & wet grassland: 3 lapwing (1 mobbing a crow, 1 flying over and calling, and a male feeding)
Ramsar hide: 11 mallards, 5 greylag geese, 8 Canada geese, 3 moorhens, 2 coots, 8 black-headed gulls, 2 shelduck
Sand martin hide: 2 teal, 2 shelducks
Scrape hide: 2 male pochards
Arun Riverlife: 1 lapwing feeding on the grassland, 4 pochards
Mon 28 Feb
Scrape hide: a pair of pochards, 3 mandarin ducks
Ramsar hide: 1 oystercatcher, 4 cackling geese
Sun 27 Feb
Arun Riverlife: 3 kingfishers, a pair chased of a lone bird, 4 pochards
Wetland Discovery: 2 robins, 10 tufted ducks, a pair of kingfishers, 6 Canada geese, 7 mallards, 1 coot, 3 pheasants
Ramsar hide: 2 lapwing
Lakes & Forest exhibit: 1 treecreeper
Sat 26 Feb
Arun Riverlife: a pair of kingfishers, 2 gadwall, 13 mallard, 5 Canada geese, 78 black-headed gulls, 2 moorhen, 3 coots, 4 shelducks, 4 tufted ducks. Pelican Cove: a pair of pochard
Ramsar hide: 1 lapwing
Lapwing hide: 2 lapwing
Fri 25 Feb
Arun Riverlife:3 pochard, 2 kingfishers
Wood Loop: 3 pheasants, 4 moorhens, 7 blue tits, 1 dunnock, 2 wrens, 1 song thrush
Ramsar hide: 1 lapwing
