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Water levels have peaked for now - Main hide, Nelson-Lyle and Lyle hides open to all, Friends hide open to walkers with wellies or stout walking boots to skirt around the water, Reedbed hide closed for now. Lady Fen trail fully open for walkers. All roads open, some diversions from the West, but direct access from Welney village, Littleport and Ten Mile Bank. 

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Today's Sightings

Cuckoo on summer walk by Karen Harpin   

4 Cranes flying south from Nelson-Lyle Hide and over the summer walk
Cuckoo - summer walk
Little ringed plover and 3 chicks - Main Observatory
Black-tailed godwit
Oystercatcher
2 male Wigeon
Shelduck (+ 28 chicks)
Shoveler
Teal
Sedge warbler
Reed warbler
Cetti's warbler
Whitethroat
Reed bunting
Tree sparrow
Hobby (x2)
Marsh harrier (x2)

Gatekeeper
Meadow brown
Ringlet
Small tortoiseshell
Small white
Large white
Red admiral
Painted lady

Black-tailed skimmer
Common darter
Brown hawker
Southern hawker
Blue-tailed damselfly

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