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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- 15/12/2020

Access is currently to the Main Observatory. Lady Fen is open for self-guided hare walks. The shop is open, and the café is open for takeaway drinks & snacks. Toilets are open. The A1101 Wash Road is flooding, ring Centre for access details.

Today's Highlights:
Short-eared owl (seen from self-guided walk)
Dunlin
Chiffchaff
Cattle egret x 9

Regular Sightings:
Mute swan
Whooper swan
Lapwing
Pochard
Wigeon
Mallard
Teal
Tufted duck
Pintail
Greylag goose
Canada goose
Snipe
Golden plover
Black-tailed godwit
Redshank
Little egret
Common gull
Lesser black-backed gull
Greater black-backed gull
Marsh harrier
Buzzard
Sparrowhawk
Tree sparrow
House sparrow
Goldfinch
Redwing
Fieldfare

Brown hare
Roe deer

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