Welney sightings - 18/04/2020

Unfortunately WWT Welney Centre and Reserve is closed until further notice but it is business as usual for the bird life and all nature. We look forward to welcoming you back as soon as possible; meanwhile we will keep the sightings updated. Read on....

Yellow wagtail
Little ringed plover - 2
Ringed plover - 2
Bar-tailed godwit
Greenshank
Mute swan
Whooper swan
Greylag goose
Egyptian goose
Shelduck - displaying on the roof of Reedbed hide and on Reedbed pool
Shoveler
Wigeon
Pochard
Tufted duck
Mallard
Gadwall
Teal
Lapwing
Greenshank
Avocet - 100+
Oystercatcher
Snipe
Ruff
Dunlin
Redshank
Black-tailed godwit - 3 pairs back so far, 4-500 Icelandic birds fuelling up for migration
Moorhen
Coot
Cormorant
Great-crested grebe
Little grebe
Great white egret
Little egret
Black-headed gull
Tree sparrow
House sparrow
Sedge warbler singing
Chiffchaff singing
Meadow pipit singing
Skylark singing
Corn Bunting singing
Reed bunting singing
Goldfinch
Great tit
Blue tit
Wren
Robin
Blackbird
Song thrush
Peregrine
Kestrel
Sparrowhawk
Marsh harrier
Buzzard
Barn owl

Green woodpecker

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