Welney sightings - 05/07/2020
WWT Welney is now open, but for pre-booked visits only. Members, non-members and pre-existing ticket holders can select a day to visit from the website. The shop and toilets are open, but the café remains closed.
Green sandpiper
Common sandpiper - 2
Common tern
Whooper swans & 5 cygnets
Mute swans (pair with 3 cygnets, pair with 5 cygnets)
Shelduck (pair with 9 ducklings, pair with 7 ducklings)
Gadwall and ducklings
Shoveler
Teal
Wigeon
Tufted duck
Gadwall
Mallard
Pochard
Greylag geese
Egyptian geese
Black-tailed godwit
Avocet
Snipe
Redshank
Little egret
Great white egret
Great crested grebe
Moorhen
Coot
Marsh harrier
Kestrel
Buzzard
Great spotted woodpecker
Tree sparrow
House sparrow
Goldfinch
Greenfinch
Blue tit
Great tit
Long-tailed tit
Whitethroat
Sedge warbler
Reed warbler
Cetti's warbler
Swallow
House martin
Swift
Broad-bodied chaser
Black-tailed skimmer
Scarce chaser
Azure damselfly
Common blue damselfly
Variable damselfly
Blue-tailed damselfly
Red-eyed damselfly
Ringlet butterfly
Meadow brown butterfly
Red admiral butterfly
Large white butterfly
Small tortoiseshell butterfly
Peacock butterfly
Brimstone butterfly
Bush crickets
Grasshoppers
Lesser stag beetle
Fringed water lily
Meadow rue
yellow loosestrife
Willowherb
Purple loosestrife
Marsh woundwort
Teasel
Water forget-me-not
Flowering rush
Valerian
