Latest sightings
Icy ponds & frozen mud makes hungry birds bolder
Long-tailed tit from a small flock of four near the feeding bay Paul Stevens' Wildlife Sightings column appears every Thursday in the Chichester Observer newspaper. IT’S ANOTHER cold and bright Monday morning
5 December 2016
A flush of snipe and squabbling egrets
Paul Steven's weekly wildlife sightings column runs every Thursday in the Chichester Observer, Bognor Regis Observer and Littlehampton Gazette. November 24, 2016 Marsh harrier coming into roost in the lost reedbed.
24 November 2016
18 snipe at Scrape hide on Wednesday
A snipe blending in with the reeds at the waters edge. Morning sightings from our wardens. Wed 2 Nov Wer
3 November 2016
Plenty of kingfishers sightings
Kingfisher photographed on Sun 30 Oct by Anthony Plummer Sun 30 Oct Grounds and reserve: k
31 October 2016
Shelduck number increasing at Ramsar hide
Shelduck feeding - WWT stock photo Sunday 23 Oct Sighted at Ramsar Hide by Guide-in-the-hide Peter. 2 Cormorant, 5 shelducks, 4 teal, 5 shoveler, 1 grey heron, 4 gadwall. Saturday 2
23 October 2016
Teal numbers increasing
Little grebe sightings on Arun Riverlife Sunday Sightings from Mon 17 Oct Wetlands Discovery area: pochard (2), tufted duck (25), snipe (2), gray wagtail, shoveler, teal (2), wigeon,
17 October 2016
Recent sightings
Fri 14 October Lapwing hide: Water rail, teal, mallard Ramsar & Sandmartin hides: grey wagtail, shoveler, teal, gadwall, mallard, Canada geese, mute swans, black-headed-gull Scarpe hide: kingfisher, grey heron, teal, shoveler, gadwall Reserve: kingf
16 October 2016
Siskin and lesser redpoll sighted on Saturday
Recent sightings by WWT wardens on their morning walk around plus Guide-in-the-hide sightings from Dave on Saturday: Monday 10 Oct Wetlands Discovery area: Lapwing, raven, rook, blackbird, wren, dunnock Lapwing hide: goldfinch, Cetti's warbler, black-hea
10 October 2016
What was wild this weekend
Here's what our wardens saw in the morning counts this weekend: Green woodpeckers sighted again on Saturday Fri 30 Sept Reserve: Bull
2 October 2016
Sightings wrap up of wc Sept 19
We are still seeing a juvenile osprey around the reserve five weeks after the first sightings in August. We believe it is the same bird but it isn’t ringed so we can confirm. Initially this young raptor was seen throughout the day, hovering and diving f
29 September 2016
Osprey sighting Tuesday, stonechat on Wednesday & 22 gadwall on Thursday
Numbers of gorgeous gadwall increasing Tues 20 Sept Ramsar & Sand Martin hide: shoveler, teal, gadwall, mallard, bl
22 September 2016
Sand martins, a green sandpiper and a hungry hobby.
A convolvulus hawk moth on the boat jetty. Photo by Jon Boon. Wilidfe Sightings for week of Sept 12-18 by Paul Stevens. OVER ONE THOUSAND sand martins and house martins were hawking insects low over the reserve on
19 September 2016
Weekend's sightings include osprey & sand martins
Species sightings for Sat 17 Sept Sand martins are really moving through the reserve now mixed in flocks with house martins. Photo by Keith Humphrey Lapwing hide: teal, snipe, pheasant, mallard, wood pigeon. Ramsar &a
18 September 2016
Osprey on the hangar this morning
A buzzard (left) chases off the juvenile osprey at Arundel on Tuesday. Photo: Russell Tofts After showing well around the reserve yesterday, including low passes over Wetlands Discovery area, the osprey was seen above
14 September 2016
Heat & sun brings out the dragonflies
Mostly migrant hawkers out today but there are a few southern hawkers around, too. Paul Stevens photographed this southern hawker last weekend at Arundel. Gorgeous sunny day - lots of migrant hawker dragonflies about
13 September 2016