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All hides except Gill's Lookout are accessible to everyone today, including with mobility scooters. Water levels are continuing to drop. Lady Fen trails are now closed until after breeding season, but great views from cafe veranda. All roads including A1101 Welney Wash Road are open. 

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A beautiful morning to count swans we are now over 1000 Whooper swans on the reserve!  Birds seen this morning...

Barn owl
Sparrowhawk
Kestrel
Lapwing
Snipe
Golden plover
Black-tailed godwits 150 (one with leg rings)
Dunlin
Wigeon
Pintail 7
Pochard
Tufted duck
Shoveler
Mallard
Gadwall
Teal
Coot
Moorhen
Water rail
Canada geese
Greylag geese
Egyptian geese
Mute swan
Bewick's swan
Whooper swan
Black-headed gull
Common gull
Cormorant
Grey heron
Green woodpecker
Redwing
Starling
Meadow pipit
Pied wagtail
Wren
Great tit
Goldfinch
Greenfinch
Chaffinch
House sparrow
Tree sparrow
Dunnock
Robin
Blackbird
Song thrush

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