Welney sightings - 18/09/2025
Sightings for Thursday 18th September 2025

All hides open and summer walk and Lady Fen loop open
Centre open until 17:00
Welney After Hours – Explore the reserve at dusk with a warden to get closer to our nocturnal wildlife, book now on our website.
Highlights:
Whooper swan
Marsh harrier
Snipe
Ruff
Cranes (x2)
Golden plover (20+)
All Sightings:
- Mute swan
- Whooper swan
- Greylag goose
Grey heron - Great white egret
- Little egret
- Cattle egret
- Ruff
- Snipe
- Redshank
- Black-tailed godwit
- Lapwing
- Coot
- Moorhen
- Gadwall
- Pintail
- Shelduck
- Shoveler
- Wigeon
- Mallard
- Teal
- Swallow
- House martin
- Sedge warbler
- Reed warbler
- Cetti’s warbler
- Reed bunting
- Goldfinch
- Pied wagtail
- Tree sparrow
- House sparrow
- Great tit
- Blue tit
- Robin
- Wren
- Starling
- Blackbird
- Wood pigeon
- Collared dove
- Stock dove
- Black headed gull
- Magpie
- Jackdaw
- Carrion crow
- Marsh Harrier
- Kestrel