Latest sightings
Busy week of wildlife surveys
I have had a busy week doing wildlife surveys of the reserve at Arundel Wetland Centre. During the bat survey I did last Thursday night I picked up three species on the detectors. I heard soprano pipistrelles, the rarer Nathusius' pipistrelles and Daubent
2 May 2017
Wed 12 - Fri 14 Sightings
Mallard ducklings by Jamie MacCallum Look out for mallard duckling and greylag goslings now hatching out around the reserve. Friday 14 April Ramsar & Sand Martin hide: lapwing, shelduck, greylag geese, black-he
14 April 2017
Recent spring sightings
So ugly they're cute! Moorhen and coot chicks are hatch around the grounds. Photo: Susan Lamb Mon 10 April Lapwing hide: lapwing, teal, shoveler, Grey heron, mallard Ramsar & Sand Martin hide: snipe, lapwing, oyst
10 April 2017
Lapwings on eggs, long-tailed tits feathering their nests
Peacock butterfly from Rob Collins ON THE WET grassland between the Lapwing and Ramsar hides our surveyors have counted four lapwing pairs with nests that are sitting on eggs. Lapwings raise one brood a year bu
6 April 2017
Great crested grebes & garganey
The great crested grebe on Arun Riverlife photo by Colin Knight (2016) Sunday 26 March Top bird of the moment is a summer visiting duck the Garganey. A cracking male showed at the scrape hide and then the Ramsar and
27 March 2017
Tues 21 March Sightings
A lovely lapwing takes flight. Photo from Natasha Clark Its sunny and breezy today. Here is what our designated warden spotted on their morning walk. Tues 21 March Woodland Loop: blue tit, great tit, chaffinch, great
21 March 2017
Recent Sightings
Nuthatch in Woodland Loop by Susan Lamb. Here are a list of species spotted by our wardens during the morning walk around the site. Numbers of individual birds/wildfowl are included when available. Fri 17 March Reserv
20 March 2017
Tuesday sightings
Greylag geese Pic: Peter Ashley Tues 14 March Arun Riverlife: 2 Med. gull, 2 lapwing, 4 pochard, 6 tufted duck Ramsar hide: 6 lapwing, Canada geese, gadwall, greylag geese, shelduck, tufted duck, pintail, pocha
14 March 2017
What's Wild at WWT Arundel
Lapwing at Arundel Toads have been flocking to Arundel over the past week. To breed toads return to the water where they first emerged as toadlets, and can travel up to three miles. There was a mass emergence on our f
13 March 2017
Weekend Wildlife sightings
Snipe from the Scrape hide by Mike Powney Sun 12 March Lapwing hide: 9 teal, 4 lapwing Ramsar hide: mute swan, greylag geese, black-headed gull, common gull, 5 snipe, Med. gull, shelduck, 4 teal, oystercatcher
12 March 2017
Friday Wildlife Sightings
Lots of toads moving onto the reserve and mating in the waterways. Common toads heading for the water at WWT Arundel Pic: Paul Stevens Reserve & Grounds: robin, dunnock, carrion crow, tufted duck, Ca
10 March 2017
What's wild Monday 6 March
Long-tailed tit photographed by Mike Jerome. Monday 6 March at Arundel Wetland Centre with Paul Stevens Two pairs of lapwings are getting ready to nest on the Wet Grassland opposite our Lapwing hide. On Monday morning
6 March 2017
Saturday Sightings
Water rail photographed on Fri 3 March by visit Linda Hammant. Species sightings from the WWT wardens morning walk: Reserve & Grounds: 4 buzzard, reed bunting, water rail, pochard, long-tailed tit, tufted duck,
4 March 2017
Recent Sightings
Kingfisher photographed on Wed 1 Mar by Chris Lay. Fri 3 March Lapwing hide: 3 lapwing, Canada geese, mallard,greylag geese, 8 teal, blackbird, black-headed gull, cormorant Ramsar hide: 4 lapwing, 3 cormorant, great e
3 March 2017
Recent sightings
Mon 27 Feb Ramsar hide: lapwing, teal, greylag geese, black-headed gull, 2 oystercatcher, shelduck, Canada, common gull, snipe, pochard World Wetlands: tufted duck, Little grebe, 6 pochard Lapwing hide: 4 shoveler, 4 lapwing, teal Scrape hide: snipe, sh
27 February 2017