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Access Update

Access to WWT Welney is via A1101 at Littleport or A1101 at Welney Village. No access via A10 at Ten Mile Bank until 7 August.

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Todays sightings

Todays sightings

Water rail being ringed
Water rail being ringed

Bird ringing station:
Water rail - 1
Great tit - 8
Blue tit - 11
Goldcrest - 2
Wren - 2
Robin - 1
House sparrow - 2
Blackbird - 2
Dunnock - 3
Chaffinch - 2
Goldfinch - 3
(BTO are back again tomorrow 9am-3pm with Whoosh net demonstrations at 11am & 2pm)

Out on the reserve
Marsh harrier
Kestrel
Sparrowhawk
Pintail
Shoveler
Wigeon
Pochard
Teal
Whooper swans - lots staying on the reserve longer due to the fog and the potatoes on the main lagoon.   Plenty of families seen today and a few leg rings.
Snipe
Black-tailed godwit
Curlew
Lapwing

Ringed whooper swan, X3G, with mate and 4 cygnets
Ringed whooper swan, X3G, with mate and 4 cygnets

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