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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 - 22/12/2020

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:
Cattle egret x 7 (seen from self-guided hare walk)
Large flocks of golden plover and lapwing (moving around site)

Regular Sightings:
Whooper swan
Mute swan
Pochard
Tufted duck
Wigeon
Teal
Mallard
Shoveler
Coot
Moorhen
Greylag goose
Canada goose
Cormorant
Tree sparrow
House sparrow
Goldfinch
Starling

Roe deer
Brown hare

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