Welney sightings - 10/06/2020

10 June 2020

WWT Welney Centre and Reserve 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. Here is what wildlife you can expect on the reserve.

Highlights

Garganey - male on the main lagoon
Corncrake calling south of summer walk
Hobby
Cuckoo
Sparrowhawk
Black-tailed godwits and chicks main lagoon and Friends hide
Avocets and chicks main lagoon
Whooper swans and cygnets Reedbed hide
Shelduck pairs and ducklings Lyle hide
Swallows with chicks in nest North wing hide
Yellow wagtail

Regular sightings

Cuckoo
Garganey
Common tern
Teal
Marsh harrier
Yellow wagtail
Pied wagtail
Little ringed plover
Swift
Swallow
House martin
Mute swan
Whooper swan
Greylag goose
Egyptian goose
Shelduck
Tufted duck
Shoveler
Mallard
Gadwall
Lapwing
Avocet
Oystercatcher
Redshank
Black-tailed godwit
Snipe
Moorhen
Coot
Cormorant
Great-crested grebe
Little grebe
Great white egret
Little egret
Grey heron
Black-headed gull
Lesser black-backed gull
Tree sparrow
House sparrow
Sedge warbler singing
Reed warbler singing
Whitethroat singing
Cetti's warbler
Chiffchaff
Skylark
Meadow pipit
Corn Bunting
Reed bunting
Greenfinch
Chaffinch
Goldfinch
Great tit
Blue tit
Dunnock
Starling
Wren
Robin
Blackbird
Song thrush
Woodpigeon
Collard dove
Kestrel
Sparrowhawk
Buzzard
Red-legged partridge
Pheasant