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All hides except Gill's Lookout are accessible to everyone today, including with mobility scooters. Water levels are continuing to drop. Lady Fen trails are now closed until after breeding season, but great views from cafe veranda. All roads including A1101 Welney Wash Road are open. 

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Welney Sightings - 20/12/2020

Access is currently to the Main Observatory. Lady Fen is open for self-guided hare walks. The shop is open, 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 - 20/12/2020

Today's Highlights:
Cattle egret (showing really well on the river bank)
Goldeneye (drake)
Cranes x 6 (flying over Visitor Centre late afternoon)
Large flocks of golden plover & lapwing

Regular Sightings:
Whooper swan
Mute swan
Pochard
Mallard
Teal
Wigeon
Tufted duck
Shoveler
Pintail
Moorhen
Coot
Great crested grebe
Redshank
Snipe
Dunlin
Black-tailed godwit
Greylag goose
Canada goose
Marsh harrier
Buzzard
Kestrel
Tree sparrow
House sparrow
Goldfinch
Starling























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