Lapwings pairs nesting

Bee flies are about - don't worry, they don't sting.

Spring is underway and here's the highlights from the wild side of Arundel last week:

• Butterflies out again last week: peacocks and brimstones
• Beeflies hatched out
• Hairy-footed flower bee males buzzing around nest of females in walls of Sand Martin hide
• Water vole sighting in the ditch beside Ramsar hide on Sunday
• Kingfisher on Wetlands Discovery on Sunday afternoon, pair a likely nesting offsite now
• 4-5 lapwing on sitting on eggs, at least 7 pairs of Lapwing onsite
• Brown long-eared bats roosting in the Sand Martin Hide – active and awake.
• Three pairs of shovelers on wet grassland, 2 at Scrape hide
• First clutch of mallard duckling spotted on Sunday on Long path ditch
• First grass snake of season spotted sunny along path to willow arbour from Lapwing hide.
• Lots of gulls have moved on but there are still some Mediterranean gulls around, the black-headed gulls on Arun Rverlife lagoon will be staying to nest.
• Spring singing from Cetti’s warbler, black caps and chiffchaffs
• Great-spotted woodpecker drumming in Woodland Loop
• Gull were mobbing a juvenile heron fishing between Ramsar and Sand Martin hides on Sunday
• Still a dozen snipe visible near Ramsar hide with many more in likely hiding

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