Welney sightings - 19/08/2021
Some fantastic highlights around the site again today. We've dropped water levels on Friends pool to do management works over the next week, but still plenty of yellow wagtail, green sandpiper and snipe enjoying the mud.
Some fantastic highlights around the site again today. We've dropped water levels on Friends pool to do management works over the next week, but still plenty of yellow wagtail, green sandpiper and snipe enjoying the mud.
Highlights:
Cranes x 34 (Lady Fen)
Spoonbill x 4 (Lady Fen)
Wood sandpiper (Lyle)
Water rail - 2 (Friends hide)
Mute swan
Whooper swan
Greylag goose
Mallard
Wigeon
Teal
Coot
Moorhen
Grey heron
Great white egret x 3
Little egret
Black-tailed godwit
Ruff
Dunlin
Snipe
Green sandpiper
Common sandpiper
Redshank
Greenshank
Lapwing
Reed warbler
Sedge warbler
Tree sparrow
House sparrow
Reed bunting
Goldfinch
Starling
Marsh harrier
