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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 - 24/12/2020

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.

Merry Christmas!

Today's sightings:
Whooper swan
Mute swan
Goldeneye (1 drake, 2 females)
Shoveler
Mallard
Pochard
Wigeon
Teal
Coot
Moorhen
Cranes x 6 (fly-over)
Great egret
Cattle egret
Little egret
Dunlin
Lapwing
Golden plover
Starling
Skylark
Meadow pipit
Tree sparrow
House sparrow
Goldfinch
Green woodpecker
Red-legged partridge
Kestrel
Common gull

Roe deer
Brown hares

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