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All hides except Gill's Lookout are accessible to everyone today, including with mobility scooters. Water levels are continuing to drop. Lady Fen trails are now closed until after breeding season, but great views from cafe veranda. All roads including A1101 Welney Wash Road are open. 

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Out on the reserve today

Lady Fen
Wood sandpiper - 2

Visitor centre ponds
Water vole - 1 just the one seen today sitting out in the open on the pond weed munching away
Moorhen - 1 pair on a nest, 1 pair with young to the rear of the centre

Reedbed hide
Cuckoo - 1 male seen and heard

Main observatory
Little ringed plover - 2
Avocet - 1 pair on a nest
House martin - 15+ using the nest boxes above the hide windows
Shelduck
Gadwall
Redshank

Nelson-Lyle hide
Buzzard - 1
Hobby - 1
Peregrine - 1

Lyle hide
Avocets - 30 pairs on nests
Common tern

Friends hide
Avocet - 2 pairs on nests

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