Cattle egrets were seen regularly from the Ramsar hide last week.
Last year the egrets were photographed by our Reserve Intern Anna Cork as they interacted with the Dexter X cattle we had onsite, relieving them of some of their flies. Keep an eye for similar behaviour with this year’s visiting Highland heifers.
Cattle egrets with last year's Dexter X cattle Photo: WWT Anna CorkA great egret was onsite last Thursday as well.
The kingfishers young have fledged from the Nesting bank on Arun Riverlife lagoon– most of last week’s kingfisher sightings were from the Scrape hide.
Riverside walk: 2 common whitethroat
Ramsar hide: 3 cattle egrets, 2 pochard
Scrape hide: 1 kingfisher
Wetland Discovery: 2 mute swans, 2 coots, 4 long-tailed tits
Arun Riverlife lagoon: 8 coots, 35 mallards, 3 mute swans, 4 black-headed gulls, 1 moorhen
Ramsar hide: 3 cattle egrets
Long path: 3 bullfinches
Wood Loop: 12 mallards, 5 long-tailed tits, 2 chaffinches, 1 blue tit, 3 great tit, 1 blackbird
Ramsar hide: 1 cattle egret
Scrape hide: 1 kingfisher
Ramsar hide: 2 cattle egrets, 2 shoveler ducks, 1 great white egret.
Willow Sphere: 8 mallards, 4 gadwall, 1 robin
Scrape hide: 1 moorhen, 6 gadwall, 7 mallards, 2 blue tits, 1 kingfisher, 1 blackbird
Sand martin hide: 2 cattle egret, 1 grey wagtail
Ramsar hide: 1 moorhen, 1 reed warbler, 4 blue tits, 57 black-headed gulls, 7 cattle egrets, 2 goldfinches, 2 mallards, 1 little egret
Lapwing hide: 1 barn owl
Pelican Cove: 3 oystercatchers
Scrape hide: 3 gadwall, 2 teal, 1 white throat, 1 lesser white throat, 3 shovelers
Sand martin hide: 19 greylag geese, 2 Canada geese, 2 tufted ducks, 4 wood pigeons, 5 sand martins, 11 black-headed gulls, 3 moorhens, 3 coots, 3 mallards, 1 Cetti’s warbler
Bewick’s swan exhibit: 1 mandarin duck
Arun Riverlife lagoon: 3 mute swans, 1 kingfisher, 2 gadwall
Pelican Cove: 1 tufted duck
Lakes & Forest exhibit: 1 kingfisher
Wood Loop pond: 3 mandarin ducks
Reedbed: 1 bullfinch
Willow sphere: 4 gadwall
Lapwing hide: 2 goldfinches, 1 mallard