Kingfishers are feeding young again
On Monday a male kingfisher was spotted entering a hole in the nesting bank on the Arun Riverlife lagoon carrying a fish.
This means the pair are feeding young and have at least one chick in this second brood. Visitor Alec Pelling photographed the male fishing, and looking damp on his perch after landing a big one.
The pair had three chicks that left the nest in mid-June from their first brood.
Wed 2 August
Arun Riverlife lagoon:a pair of mute swans and one cygnet, 1 male kingfisher
Pelican Cove:1 tufted duck and duckling 2 oystercatchers
Lakes and Forests exhibit: 1 pair of gadwall
Meadow pond: 1 female mandarin
Wood Loop:tufted female and 3 ducklings
Willow Sphere: 1 male gadwall
Scrape hide: 1 mallards,1 sedge warbler, 3 wood pigeons, 3 teal, 2 gadwall, 1 goldfinch, 1 kingfisher, 1 blackbird, 1 shoveler, 1 coots, 1 wren, 1 greenfinch, 1 moorhen, 2 sand martins
Sand martin hides: 1 tufted ducks, 4 sand martin
Bewick’s swan exhibit: 1 mandarin
Ramsar hide: 2 little egret, 1 cormorant, 1 teal, 4 cattle egrets
Lapwing hide: 1 grey heron
Tues 1 August
Ramsar/Sand Martin hides: 1 cormorant, 5 coots, 1 moorhen, 13 greylag geese, 1 kingfisher, 41 black-headed gulls, 20 sand martins, 2 wrens.
Mon 31 July
Wetlands Discovery area: 1 Cetti’s warbler
Lapwing hide: 3 goldfinches, 2 sedge warblers, 1 blue tit
Ramsar hide: 1 linnet, 2 Egyptian geese
Pelican Cove: 1 oystercatcher
Arun Riverlife lagoon: 1 kingfisher - male entered 5th hole from left with a fish.
Sun 30 July
Wetland Discovery:1 black-headed gull, 3 blue tits, 2 goldfinches
Ramsar and Sand Martin hide: 2 Egyptian geese
Pelican Cove: 2 oystercatchers, 1 pochard
Sat 29 July
Arun Riverlife lagoon: pair of mute swan with a cygnet, 11 coots, 31 mallards, 6 black-headed gulls, 1 kingfisher, 3 Canada geese
Ramsar & Sand martin hides: 2 Egyptian geese
Scrape Hide: 1 kingfisher, 1 little egret
Pelican Cove: 1 pochard, 1 oystercatcher
Fri 28 July
Wood Loop: 8 mallards, 1 coot, 4 female mandarin, 5 moorhens with 5 chick, great spotted woodpecker, 3 great tits, 5 blue finches, 4 chaffinches, 4 goldfinches
Thurs 27 July
Willow sphere: 11 mallards, 2 gadwall, 1 moorhen, 2 reed warblers
Reedbed boardwalk: 4 reed warblers, 1 bullfinch, 2 blue tits, 4 moorhens including young chicks.
Wed 26 July
Arun Riverlife: pair of mute swans and one cygnet, 2 female tufted ducks and duckling, 1 male gadwall, 2 oystercatchers, 1 pochard
Lakes & Forest exhibit: 1 female teal, a pair of gadwall
Meadow Pond: 1 mandarin
Reedbed boardwalk: 2 moorhen chicks
Willow Sphere: 4 gadwall
Long ditch: 1 female tufted duck
Scrape hide: 2 coots, 14 gadwall, 2 goldfinches, 26 mallards, 1 reed warbler, 1 green finch, 2 shoveler ducks, 1 mandarin, 1 kingfisher, 3 wood pigeon, 1 chiffchaff.
