Snipe upswing, plus a kestrel
Lots of snipe about – our count showed 27 on Tuesday morning between the Ramsar and Sand Martin hide. On Sunday we spotted a kestrel hunting in front of Reedbed hide. Kingfisher has been showing at the Scrape hide and between Ramsar and Sand Martin hides. We’ve seen some stonechats down by the Lapwing hide and bullfinches and goldcrest on the hedgerow to the Tranquil Trail.
Tues 19 Dec
Ramsar and Sand martin hide: 9 shovelers, 1 grey heron, 8 cackling geese, 1 kingfisher, 3 redwings, 1 water rail, 35 mallards, 1 tufted ducks, 14 lapwings, 12 Canada geese, 3 greylag geese, 25 black headed gulls, 2 cormorants, 3 moorhens, 2 blue tits, 5 goldfinches, 2 pochard, 5 cattle egrets, 27 snipe, 39 teal, 6 shelducks
Wetland Discovery: 1 gold crest 1 bullfinch, 9 tufted ducks, 1 pochard
Reedbed: Cetti’s warbler
Sun 17 Dec
Arun Riverlife lagoon: 4 pochard
Scrape hide: 12 snipe
Reedbed: 1 kestrel hunting in front of reedbed hide
Ramsar and Sand martin hide: 1 snip in front of Ramsar hide, 4 Egyptian geese, 14 shelducks, 7 wigeon, 16 lapwing, 26 common gull
Wetland Discovery: 3 coots, 18 mallards, 1 Canada goose.
Sat 16 Dec
Arun Riverlife lagoon: 3 mute swans, 28 coots, 18 tufted ducks, 3 pochards, 45 mallards, 6 black-headed gulls, 3 Canada Geese
Ramsar and Sand Martin hide: 13 shelducks, 23 lapwing
Scrape hide: 12 snipe, 1 kingfisher
Fri 15 Dec
Ramsar & Sand martin hide: 6 shelducks, 1 pochard, 2 Egyptian geese, 2 greylag geese, 24 Canada geese, 12 teal, 2 cormorants, black-headed gulls
Lapwing hide: 1 grey heron, 2 stonechats
