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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 - 25/8/21

Highlights:
Crane – 20+ Lady Fen
Spoonbill - 3
Great white egret – 3
Little ringed plover - 3
Snipe - 10

Whooper swan
Mute swan
Greylag goose
Little egret
Black-tailed godwit
Ruff
Common sandpiper
Lapwing
Redshank
Coot
Moorhen
Teal
Mallard
Reed warbler
Tree sparrow
Goldfinch
Swallow
House martin
Marsh harrier
Stonechat

Moth trap:
Burnished brass
Common wainscot
Common carpet
Garden pebble
Poplar hawkmoth
Mother of pearl
Clouded border
Canary-shoulder thorn
White-point
Setaceous Hebrew Character
Flame shoulder
Small square-spot
Vine’s Rustic
Common rustic
Dog’s tooth
Six-striped rustic
Common marble
Flounced rustic
Square-spot rustic
Rustic/Uncertain
Large yellow underwing
Rosy rustic
Brown-line bright-eye
Webb’s wainscot
Lesser broad-boarded yellow underwing
Lesser yellow underwing
Orange swift
Dingy footman
Turnip moth
Green carpet
Gold spot
Wainscot veneer

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