Snapshot of recent sightings from around the reserves by our wardens (common species like mallards, greylag and Canadian geese and common garden birds are not listed here):
Ramsar hide: 31 snipe, 3 pochard
Reedbed hide : 2 little grebe
Arun Riverlife: 4 pochard
Scrape hide: 10 marsh harriers (roost)
Sand martin hide: brown long-eared bat (hibernating)
Ramsar hide: 33 teal, 12 tufted duck, 30 snipe, 9 shoveler, 1 lapwing, 1 reed bunting.
Scrape hide: water rail, 3 little grebe.
Scrape hide: 4 shelducks
Sand martin: 9 shelducks, 21 tuifted ducks, 4 pochard, 1 little egret, 7 teal.
Arun Riverlife: 4 pochard, 1 little egret, 1 cormorant
Ramsar hide: 14 teal, 1 little grebe.
Arun Riverlife: 2 little grebes.
Car park: 2 chiffchaff
Sussex screen: two gadwall
Reedbed walk: 15+ long-tailed tits
Scrape hide (Trumpeter Pen): water rail, green woodpecker
Sand martin hide: 16 shelducks, 1 grey heron, 5 shoveler, 15 teal, 2 pochard.
Ramsar hide: 8 snipe
Arun Riverlife: 7 pochard, 1 little egret
Reedbed: 1 mistle thrush, 1 kingfisher
Scrape hide: 5 shoveler, 20 fieldfare
Ramsar hide: 3 pochard, 4 shoveler, 12 snipe, 1 little grebe, 3 reed buntings
Lapwing hide: 1 lapwing, 15 snipe
Scrape hide (Trumpeter Pen): water rail, little grebe
Arun Riverlife: 4 tfted ducks, 1 little egret
Wetlands Discovery (boats): kingfisher
Ramsar hide: 5 teal, 4 snipe
Lapwing hide: 1 grey heron
Sand martin hide: 10 shelduck, 32 teal, 9 pochard, 4 gadwall, 5 shoveler
Long path: great spotted woodpecker
Lapwing hide: 7 snipe
Ramsar hide: 15 snipe, 19 teal, 1 little grebe
Scrape hide: 11 teal, 1 kingfisher
Reedbed: great spotted woodpecker