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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. 

Close alert

Welney sightings - 21/05/2020

Unfortunately WWT Welney Centre and Reserve is closed until further notice but it is business as usual for the bird life and all nature. We look forward to welcoming you back as soon as possible; meanwhile we will keep the sightings updated. Read on....

Regular sightings

Cuckoo
Garganey
Common tern
Teal
Marsh harrier
Yellow wagtail
Pied wagtail
Little ringed plover
Swift
Swallow
House martin
Mute swan
Whooper swan
Greylag goose
Egyptian goose
Shelduck
Shoveler
Mallard
Gadwall
Lapwing
Avocet
Oystercatcher
Redshank
Black-tailed godwit
Moorhen
Coot
Cormorant
Great-crested grebe
Little grebe
Great white egret
Little egret
Grey heron
Black-headed gull
Lesser black-backed gull
Tree sparrow
House sparrow
Sedge warbler singing
Reed warbler singing
Whitethroat singing
Cetti's warbler
Chiffchaff
Skylark
Reed bunting
Greenfinch
Chaffinch
Goldfinch
Great tit
Blue tit
Dunnock
Starling
Wren
Robin
Blackbird
Song thrush
Woodpigeon
Collard dove
Kestrel
Sparrowhawk
Buzzard
Red-legged partridge
Pheasant

Other resident birds

Tufted duck
Water rail
Corncrake
Snipe
Meadow pipit
Corn Bunting
Barn owl
Green woodpecker

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