Kingfishers and Martins
Kingfishers continue to show regularly on the Arun Riverlife lagoon , sometimes at the Scrape hide and near Sand Martin hide.
Sand martins, house martins and swallows have been moving through in dribs and drabs, heading south.
Kingfishers continue to show regularly at Arun Riverlife , sometimes at the Scrape hide and near Sand Martin hide. Visitors have been getting some great pics after a quiet summer on the kingfisher front. Alec Pelling got this great pic of a kingfisher emerging with fish after a watery dive. (above)
Cattle egrets are roosting onsite and we have been seeing good numbers in the mornings as they have been sticking onsite longer with the rainy weather.
We are more teal and shovelers onsite as well.
Wed 17 Sept
Car Park: 1 grey wagtail
Arun Riverlife lagoon: 2 gadwall, 2 tufted ducks, 1 kingfisher
Pelican Cove: 6 tufted ducks
Reedswamp exhibit: 2 Egyptian geese, 68 mallards, 8 shovelers, 2 Canada geese, 14 gadwall, 1 wood pigeon, 4 tufted ducks, 4 teal, 1 green woodpecker, 1 greenfinch, 1 carrion crow
Scrape hide: 1 Cetti’s warbler, 1 shelduck, 3 sand martins
Old Trumpeter Pen: 4 gadwall, 6 greenfinches, 6 sand martins, 4 chiffchaff, 6 gadwall, 1 grey heron, 1 cattle egret
Ramsar hide: 1 cormorant, 16 cattle egrets, 1 little egret
Lapwing hide: 2 peregrine
Tues 16 September
Ramsar and Sand Martin hide: 58 cattle egrets, 2 great white egrets, 1 cormorant, 1 common sand pipers, 1 kingfisher, 2 reed warblers, 1 Cetti’s warblers, 7 Canada geese, 27 gadwall, 6 mallards, 2 shovelers, 1 carrion crows, 3 woodpigeons
Wetland Discovery area: 1 pochard
Mon 15 September
Ramsar and Sand Martin hide: 13 cattle egrets, 2 great white egrets, 2 Egyptian geese
Scrape hide: 13 shovelers, 10 teal.
Sun 14 September
Ramsar and Sand martin hide: 4 Egyptian geese, 12 cattle egrets
Wetlands Discovery: 2 great tits, 2 mute swans, 1 Cetti’s warbler, 3 mallards, 1 pochard, 2 wood pigeon, 1 robin, 1 blue tits.
Sat 13 September
Arun Riverlife lagoon: 1 grey heron, 34 mallards, 1 tufted duck, 2 gadwall
Ramsar and Sand Martin hide: 5 cattle egrets, 1 great white egret.
Fri 12 September
Woodland Loop: 2 robins, 7 mallards, 2 coots, 4 moorhens, 3 long-tailed tits, 2 jackdaws, 3 great tits.
Thurs 11 September
Arun Riverlife: 1 kingfisher
Scrape hide: 1 kingfisher
Ramsar and Sand martin hide: c35 house and sand martins
Scrape hide: 1 great white egret, 1 little egret
Sand martin hide: 2 swallows, 1 coot, 14 mallards, 2 robins, 1 moorhen, 2 great tits.
