Seven great egrets!
We counted 7 great egrets from the Ramsar hide this morning! Senior Reserve Manager Rosie Ellis managed to snap five of the great egrets crowding a grey heron. Rosie also spotted two snipe to the left of the Scrape hide.
Wed 18 Oct
Ramsar hide: 7 great egrets
Scrape hide: 2 snipe
Tues Oct 17
Long Path: 1 Cetti’s warbler
Scrape hide: 1 Cetti’s warbler, Great egret
Ramsar & Lapwing hides: 1 grey heron, 1 water rail, 6 shoveler, 4 tufted ducks, 15 mallards, 17 gadwall, 1 dunnock, 36 black-headed gulls, 5 coots, 1 moorhen, 14 Canada geese, 3 mile swans, 24 greylag geese
Wetland Discovery: 1 snipe overhead
Sun 15 Oct
Ramsar hide: 1 teal, 2 Egyptian geese, 4 shoveler, and 22 cattle egret
Sand martin hide: 1 great egret, 2 snipe, 1 marsh harrier, great egret, 3 water rail, 1 kingfisher
Wetland Discovery: 7 tufted ducks, 3 mallards, 2 coots, 1 Cetti’s warbler, 2 gadwall, 1 blackbird
Sat 14 Oct
Arun Riverlife lagoon: 17 tufted ducks, 2 moorhens, 2 Canada geese, 5 Black-headed gulls, 1 water rail, 27 coots, 34 mallards
Willow sphere: 1 great egret, 1 kingfisher,
Long path: 1 Cetti’s warbler
Reedbed Boardwalk: 1 Cetti’s warbler, Scrape hide: 1 great egret, 1 little egret
Ramsar hide: 1 great egret
Sand martin hide: 2 shoveler ducks
Waterside walk: 6 tufted ducks
Lapwing hide: 2 great egrets
Fri 13 Oct
Arun Rverlife: 12 tufted ducks
Pelican Cove: 1 kingfisher
Lakes & Forest exhibit: 1 grey wagtail
Wood Loop: 3 wood pigeons, 3 mallards, 1 Robin, 5 blue tits, 2 chaffinches, 1 blackbird, 2 gold finches, 1 moorhen, 1 great tit
Reedbed Boardwalk: 1 marsh harrier
Scrape hide: 4 shoveler ducks
Ramsar hide: 3 pochards, 3 cormorants, 1 Egyptian goose.
Thurs 12 Oct
Reedbed: 2 great tits, 2 Cetti’s warblers, 32 mallards, 1 little egret, 1 magpie, 17 wood pigeons, 2 carrion crows, 3 robins, 2 gold crest, 5 gadwall, 2 herring gulls, 8 blue tuts, 4 wrens, 2 moorhens, 1 jackdaw, 9 long-tailed its.
Ramsar hide: 1 barn owl being mugged by a black-headed gull, 3 lapwing, 4 greylag geese, 1 little egret.
