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Access is available to Main Observatory only due to water levels on the paths. Lady Fen loop is fully open for walkers. Direct access possible from Littleport along the A1101, and from A10 via Ten Mile Bank. A1101 from Welney village is closed currently due to flooding. 

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Welney Sightings - 01/01/2021

Access is currently to Lady Fen for self-guided hare walks. All the hides are closed. The shop is closed, and the café is open for takeaway drinks & snacks. Toilets are open. The A1101 Wash Road is flooding, ring Centre for access details.

Welney Sightings - 01/01/2021

Happy New Year!

Today's Sightings:
Barn owl
Whooper swan
Mute swan
Bewick's swan (flying out onto the fields)
Pochard
Mallard
Teal
Shoveler
Tufted duck
Cattle egret (x 7 from A1101 Suspension Bridge)
Great egret
Little egret
Lapwing
Golden plover
Dunlin
Curlew x 7
Snipe x 7
Redshank
Buzzard
Kestrel
Marsh harrier
Reed bunting
House sparrow
Linnet
Stonechat (x 2 from self-guided hare walk)
Robin
Wren
Dunnock
Long-tailed tit
Goldfinch
Moorhen Coot
Wood pigeon
Collard dove
Stock dove
Fieldfare
Redwing

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