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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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Welney sightings - 05/03/2026

Sightings for Thursday 5th March 2026

Main observatory, Nelson-Lyle and Lyle  hides open, Friends hide and photography hide open (wellies required).

Lady Fen loop closed (breading season)

Gwen Berry in the gallery: 1st March - 30th April.

Mother's Day: 15th March - Treat a Mother you know to a cream tea in our Wigeon Cafe.

Signs of Spring - Easter: 28 March - 12 April

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Black Tailed Godwit

Goosander

Marsh Harrier

Oystercatcher (x2)

Curlew

Whooper Swan

Cranes (x9)

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Black Tailed Godwit

Blackbird

Blue Tit

Brent goose

Canada Goose

Carrion Crow

Cattle Egret

Cetti's warbler

Chiffchaff

Collared Dove

Common gull

Coot

Gadwall

Great crested grebe

Great Tit

Great White Egret (x10)

Grey Heron

Greylag Goose

House Sparrow

Jackdaw

Kestrel

Lapwing

Linnet

Little Egret

Magpie

Mallard

Marsh Harrier

Moorhen

Mute Swan

Oystercatcher

Pintail

Redshank

Reed Bunting

Ruff

Sand Martin

Shelduck

Shoveler

Snipe

Starling

Stock Dove

Teal

Tree Sparrow

Whooper Swan

Wigeon

Wood Pigeon

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