Skip to content header Skip to main content Skip to content footer

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. 

Close alert

Welney Sightings-02/11/2020

WWT Welney 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. The shop and toilets are open, and takeaway tea and coffee is available in the café.

Today's Highlights:
Bean geese x 9 (viewed from Main Obs.)
Cattle egret x 10
Great egret x2
Black-tailed godwit
Golden plover
Whooper swan
Marsh harrier

Regular Sightings:
Tree sparrow (on the Visitor Centre bird feeders)
House sparrow
Cetti's warbler (calling)
Pochard
Wigeon
Tufted duck
Mallard
Shoveler
Gadwall
Teal
Greylag goose
Canada goose
Little egret
Grey heron
Lapwing
Water rail (calling)
Brown hare (viewed from the new self-guided hare walk around Lady Fen)















  • Share this article